Alec Baldwin defends his tweet complaining about late-night shows becoming “grand juries”

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In a series of tweets and on Megyn Kelly Today, Baldwin said that the sexual harassment allegations against Dustin Hoffman shouldn't be conflated with Harvey Weinstein's reported sexual misconduct, which is why he didn’t like John Oliver's grilling of Hoffman. “I want to see the people who really did something get convicted," Baldwin told Megyn Kelly. "I want the people who are wrong, I want them to be punished. But I don’t want to see innocent people get hurt either." On Twitter, Baldwin explained in a series of tweets, “I believe that, in terms of a criminal code or any wrong doing, there are gradations. Our system recognizes a misdemeanor from a felony and so forth. What Hoffman did several years ago was vulgar/offensive/ crude. But was it done with malice?.. behavior has changed significantly over the past 40-50 years. There are changes I never thought possible. Some of it actually for the better. But I’m certain Hoffman believed that there was a crude display of ‘humor’ that everyone was in on yet is unacceptable today”

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