Three years after the “Empire” actor claimed that two Trump-voting, MAGA-hat-wearing white folk, attacked him, tied a noose around his neck, and used racist and homophobic slurs, in downtown Chicago, Jussie Smollett has beenĀ found guilty by a jury of his peers of lying to police about the robbery and hate crime he had staged against himself.
Jurors heard six days of testimony from 13 witnesses and deliberated for less than 10 hours.
āHeās dumb enough to go into Obamaās city and pretend thereās Trump supporters running around with MAGA hats? Give me a break,āĀ defense attorney Nenye UcheĀ told jurors in his closing arguments.
āThere was no hoax,ā Smollett told jurors.
āWhat happened to me, happened.ā
They obviously didn’t believe him.
As a reminder,Ā NYPost reportsĀ that the actor was originally charged with staging a hate crime in February 2019 but in a stunning reversal, Chicago prosecutors dropped all charges against him after he agreed to forfeit a $10,000 bond and showed proof that heād completed two days of community service.
In the backdrop of Smollettās failed performance as a hate crime victim,Ā scandal soon engulfed Cook County Stateās Attorney Kim Foxx, who was widely criticized for the move and was later found to haveĀ made a series of unethical blundersĀ in her handling of the case.
We look forward to hearing from VP Kamala Harris who was among the first to leverage the race-baiting angle of the hoax hate-crime,Ā Ā condemning what she called “an attempted modern day lynching.”…READ MORE HERE…| ZeroHedge