Thread by @JuliaBerkowitz1

The reason why Safechuck had to throw in "threats and intimidation" among his claims was because during the probate court case that was a requirement to get around statutes.

https://twitter.com/LisaCroft/status/1355437077559558148

So all of a sudden James started claiming that MJ "threatened and intimidated him" and that's why he didn't tell, even though it was in contradiction with his "love" narratives. But he is someone who will claim just anything that's required of him to claim at any given moment.

The "threatened and intimidated" narrative is in a declaration by Safechuck he gave in 2015 for the probate case. There the claim is that he did not come out all these years because MJ threatened and intimidated him. He needed to make that claim to try to get around statues.

In the probate court case they tried to do that with an equitable estoppel argument, among others. Equitable estoppel is the legal doctrine that someone can't take advantage of his own wrongdoing.

So if the reason why Safechuck didn't come out earlier with his claims was because MJ threatened him he could have got a pass. Lo and behold, all of a sudden he started claiming threats and intimidation- on contrary with his other, "love"/"didn't realize it was abuse" narratives.

The contradiction is so glaring between the two narratives, that even he himself notes it in his declaration and of course, tries to explain away with being a little, confused victim. When all else fails, when your story is all over the place, you can always pull that card.

So what was these alleged "threats and intimidation"? Safechuck claims that MJ kept calling him all those years between them drifting away at the end of the 90s and up until the trial and made sure he kept quiet by threatening him that "his life would be over" if it ever came out

Safechuck keeps mentioning it over and over and over again throughout the declaration how it was this threat that paralyzed him for so many years and kept him from “telling the truth”. (Once again: as opposed to the "I thought it was love" narrative.)

The exact nature of this alleged threat is not totally clear, though. He does state that it was not a physical, violent threat, but he portrays MJ as a powerful mafia-boss like entity who could “see to it” that Safechuck’s life would be over if he ever told “the truth”.

Again, keep in mind that everything he claims here serves a certain legal purpose: to be able to claim that he didn't make his claims earlier because he was threatened, in the hope that would carry him around statutes of limitations in the probate case.

Hence why he claims he still feels threatened after MJ's death. Yeah, that's why he keeps posting his children's photos on social media, I guess. The threat must be so real.

Anyone who knows about MJ would laugh at it that he was this mafia-boss like bully who would "see to it" that people's lives "would be over" if they cross him. If anything, he was a pushover which is why real bullies of these world, eg. the Safechucks, could take advantage of him