Megan Thee Stallion Fires Back at Tory Lanez's "Clickbait Circus" Website

In the latest chapter of a prolonged, severe narrative, Megan Thee Stallion isn't to be silenced as Tory Lanez's legal team attempts a digital rebrand of the 2020 shooting that left her wounded and a nation split. Lanez's camp went live with a website 36 hours later. The site, they say, "shows complete transparency" and "never-before-seen" information that purportedly calls into question the rapper's guilty verdict. But Megan's team is referring to the site more or less precisely as many see it: an 11th-hour, desperate Hail Mary in shiny paper.

Megan's attorney, Alex Spiro, pounced quickly on the site's intentions. "Tory Lanez's side cannot get a story straight," Spiro said flatly. "Last week they argued Kelsey Harris shot Megan, and now they're arguing Megan only got glass in her foot. His words, posted via XXL, get to the heart of what many idealist critics are already singing: this is plastic with a new font.

The site relies heavily on bodycam footage from Megan telling the officers that she "stepped on glass." Lanez's team cites this as key evidence that her injuries weren't caused by gunfire. But Megan has already addressed that point publicly, saying she lied at the moment and did not want to make an already tense situation with the police any worse.

Spiro accuses Lanez's camp of copying the format Megan's team utilized in prior court papers. "They keep stepping back and regurgitating evidence from trial and re-constituting it to present to the public to salvage their case," he said, calling the latest move not just misleading but verging on the theatrical.

Key takeaways from the site include statements from people like Sean Kelly, the sole independent eyewitness. Kelly reportedly told McDermott that "It was a girl" who shot the gun, referring to Kelsey Harris. But, as Spiro pointed out, none of this is novel. Such statements were already tested and considered during the trial, culminating in Lanez's conviction.

Other clips feature commentary from Lanez's ex-bodyguard, JauQuan Smith, who claims he broke up the fight and didn't see who fired the gun, and a man named Bradlie James, who claims Harris confessed to pulling the trigger. Still, none was sufficient to convince a court to exonerate Lanez.

According to Lanez's team, it's just another phase of an attempt to "shift public opinion" and open up new avenues of appeal. But if the court of public opinion was what they're after, the response from Megan's camp indicates it may not be going how they hoped.

Spiro also seized the opportunity to call out Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who has since become an outspoken Luke Lanez supporter and actively promotes the website. "It's embarrassing," Spiro said, "that she's involving herself in a California criminal case for clickbait."

Megan has been mostly silent on this week's rollout, but her legal team's message is clear: If the facts haven't changed, no amount of web design will make them look different.