Donald Trump speaks out after Duke lacrosse accuser admits to making false allegations, years later

"Woman admits to totally fabricating accusations in the horrible Duke Lacrosse Case. She destroyed the lives of these young men," Trump wrote. 

Mangum's confession came on Thursday during an interview from her jail cell with the independent media outlet "Let's Talk With Kat." 

The former Duke players, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, were declared innocent in 2007. The state attorney general's office concluded there was no credible evidence that an attack had ever occurred, and its investigation found no DNA, witnesses or other evidence to confirm Mangum's story.

However, the player's lives were severely affected, according to one of their lawyers. 

Other individuals who helped perpetuate the false allegations include Durham County district attorney Mike Nifong, who was the lead prosecutor in the case, and former Duke University president Richard Brodhead, who punished the team over the false allegations and canceled the rest of the 2006 season.

Nifong was later disbarred, and Brodhead apologized for the university's "failure to reach out" in a "time of extraordinary peril." Brodhead was then one of 30 individuals named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in 2007 by the players and stepped down in 2017. 

Mangum can not be prosecuted for perjury now, because the statute of limitations on perjury charges in North Carolina only lasts around two years. 

Mangum was later indicted on a charge of first-degree murder and two counts of larceny in March 2011. A year before that, she was convicted on misdemeanor charges after setting a fire that nearly torched her home with her three children inside. In a videotaped police interrogation, she told officers she had gotten into a confrontation with her boyfriend at the time, not Daye, and burned his clothes, smashed his car windshield and threatened to stab him.