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Actor Jussie Smollett is now officially a hate crime hoaxer; a jury in Chicago’s Cook County found him guilty of five out of six charges of disorderly conduct for lying to police, including two charges specifically for claiming to be a victim of a hate crime.

Mr. Smollett was an unknown actor when he was cast on the Fox musical drama series Empire, in 2015. He had acted as a child, appearing in the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks, and with his five siblings in the ABC comedy On Our Own, which ran for one season. He accrued no acting credits at all for about 15 years after that, and had only a few single-appearance television roles before being cast as a regular on Empire, playing the gay son of a hip-hop mogul.

His original salary was $40,000 to $50,000 per episode, but his contract was renegotiated when the show was picked up for a third season, and his salary increased to $120,000 per episode. There were 18 episodes per season thereafter. Mr. Smollett also had some income from iTunes sales of music from the show, but his 2018 debut solo album Sum of My Music flopped. In 2017, he won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Empire, but he was never nominated for an Emmy. Empire is filmed in Chicago, where Mr. Smollett has an apartment.

June 18, 2017 – Jussie Smollett – Photocall Empire – 57th Festival de la Television de Monte-Carlo. Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
June 18, 2017 – Jussie Smollett – Photocall Empire – 57th Festival de la Television de Monte-Carlo. Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)

On January 20, 2019, Mr. Smollett tweeted: “45 [President Trump] and all his white hooded cohorts are a national disgrace. And if you support them. . . . so are you. Clowns.”

Just two days letter, Mr. Smollett reported to police that he received a threatening letter sent to the Fox studio where Empire was filmed. “MAGA” was written in red across the envelope, and the letter said, in cutout magazine letters, “You will die black fag.” It had a crude drawing of a stick figure hanging from a tree. The letter contained a powdery substance, which investigators later determined to be crushed Tylenol.

Just one week after that, Chicago had such cold weather that the National Weather Service told people to protect their lungs by not talking or breathing deeply outdoors. In the early morning hours, a friend of Mr. Smollett called police to Mr. Smollett’s apartment. He had a noose around his neck, as captured on an officer’s body camera. The friend, who identified himself as a creative director from Empire, asked that the police turn the camera off, and they did so. Mr. Smollett reported that two masked men attacked him as he was on his way home from buying a Subway sandwich. He said they shouted racist and homophobic slurs, beat him, poured bleach on him, and put the noose around his neck. In a follow-up interview, he told police the attackers had said, “This is MAGA country.”

Notable figures rushed to support Mr. Smollett and denounce the alleged crime. On January 29, 2019, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden tweeted: “What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country. We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie.”

Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris tweeted: “@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery. This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.”

Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: “There is no such thing as ‘racially charged.’ This attack was not ‘possibly’ homophobic. It was a racist and homophobic attack. If you don’t like what is happening to our country, then work to change it.”

When President Trump was asked about what happened, he said, “I can tell you that it’s horrible. It doesn’t get worse.”

Empire creator, executive producer and honoree Lee Daniels, and one of the stars of Empire Jussie Smollett, on the red carpet for BET Honors. (Credit Image: © Cheriss May / NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
Empire creator, executive producer and honoree Lee Daniels, and one of the stars of Empire Jussie Smollett, on the red carpet for BET Honors. (Credit Image: © Cheriss May / NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)

Mr. Smollett soaked up the attention, released a statement through his publicist, did a concert in West Hollywood on February 2, and gave an interview to Good Morning America on February 14. During the interview, he was angry about people who doubted that “white supremacists” would be out with nooses in sub-zero weather, much less recognize him: “It feels like if I had said it was a Muslim, or a Mexican, or someone black, I feel like the doubters would have supported me much more. A lot more.”

Mr. Smollett’s story fell apart. On January 30, Chicago police released an image from surveillance video of two men with their backs to the camera, who police said were persons of interest. Two weeks later, police detained the two, Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, two brothers from Nigeria, but released them without charges. By February 16, CNN and other media reported that Mr. Smollett had hired the brothers to stage the attack.

Olabinjo Osundairo and Abimbola Osundairo. (Credit Image: © Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)
Olabinjo Osundairo and Abimbola Osundairo. (Credit Image: © Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)

On February 20, Mr. Smollett was charged with disorderly conduct. He turned himself in to police and was arrested and booked the next day. Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said in a press conference that Mr. Smollett “took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career.”

Executive producers of Empire wrote Mr. Smollett out of the last two episodes of season five, “to avoid further disruption on set.” Mr. Smollett never returned to the show, and the series ended after season six.

February 21, 2019, Chicago, IL: Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks about the details of the arrest and charges of Jussie Smollett at Chicago police headquarters. (Credit Image: © TNS via ZUMA Wire)
February 21, 2019, Chicago, IL: Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks about the details of the arrest and charges of Jussie Smollett at Chicago police headquarters. (Credit Image: © TNS via ZUMA Wire)

In March 2019, a Cook County grand jury indicted Mr. Smollett on 16 counts of felony disorderly conduct for lying to police about the attack. Mr. Smollett pleaded “not guilty” to all counts and not long after, Cook County prosecutors dropped all charges. This was widely criticized, and in August, Cook County Judge Michael Toomin appointed Dan Webb as special prosecutor.

The trial began on Monday, November 29, 2021 in Chicago. Judge James Linn presided. Cameras were not allowed inside the courtroom. Jury selection took only eight hours.

In his opening statement, Special Prosecutor Dan Webb told the jury that Mr. Smollett was upset that a threatening hate letter that was sent to the Empire studio wasn’t taken seriously enough, so he concocted the fake hate crime by hiring two brothers he was acquainted with to attack him. One potentially damning piece of evidence Mr. Webb hinted at in his opening was that there is surveillance video showing Mr. Smollett and the two brothers — who worked with him on Empire — doing a “dry run” of the attack in the area the day before it allegedly took place. Mr. Webb also said the police never determined who wrote the hate mail, implying that Mr. Smollett could have sent it to himself.

August 23, 2019, Chicago, IL: Former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb takes the oath of special prosecutor during an status hearing concerning actor Jussie Smollett at the Leighton Criminal Court building, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 in Chicago. (Credit Image: © TNS via ZUMA Wire)
August 23, 2019, Chicago, IL: Former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb takes the oath of special prosecutor during an status hearing concerning actor Jussie Smollett at the Leighton Criminal Court building, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 in Chicago. (Credit Image: © TNS via ZUMA Wire)

Defense attorney Nenye Uche, who is black, told jurors in his opening that Smollett was a “real victim,” and that the brothers’ accounts are false. He painted the brothers as homophobic criminals, saying they attacked Smollett because they didn’t like him “because of who he is.” He said when the police searched the Osundairos’ home, they found heroin and guns.

Mr. Uche also suggested that a third attacker was involved. He said one area resident said she saw a white man with “reddish brown hair” who appeared to be waiting for someone that night. She told a detective that when the man turned away from her, she “could see hanging out from underneath his jacket what appeared to be a rope.”

Jussie Smollett defense attorney Nenye Uche, center, speaks with members of the press outside the the Leighton Criminal Court Building. (Credit Image: © Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)
Jussie Smollett defense attorney Nenye Uche, center, speaks with members of the press outside the the Leighton Criminal Court Building. (Credit Image: © Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)

On Tuesday, November 30, the prosecution called former police detective Michael Theis, who said he initially thought the actor was a victim of a homophobic and racist attack, and that police “absolutely” did not rush to judgment against him as Mr. Smollett’s defense attorney claimed during opening statements. Mr. Theis said about 24 detectives spent some 3,000 hours in January 2019 on what they thought was a “horrible hate crime.” He said they were pleased when they were able to track the movements of two suspected attackers using surveillance video, cell phone records, and reports from ride-sharing services. He testified that Mr. Smollett had said his attackers put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him. He said the case had become international news and that “everybody from the mayor on down” wanted it solved, a reference to then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Police arrested Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo when they returned to Chicago from a trip to Nigeria. The men told Detective Theis that Mr. Smollett wanted to stage the attack because he was unhappy about how the TV studio handled the hate mail. Investigators checked out the brothers’ account — including that the actor picked them up days before the attack and drove them around the downtown neighborhood where he lived and talked about what would happen — and corroborated their version of events using GPS, cellphone records, and video evidence. Police found no evidence that the men were lying. “At the end of the investigation,” Detective Theis said, “We determined that the alleged hate crime was actually a staged event.” The Osundairo brothers were released.

Jurors were shown surveillance video of the brothers buying supplies, including a red hat they told police Mr. Smollett wanted them to wear to resemble Trump supporters, and a piece of clothesline police said was later fashioned into a loop. Jurors also saw a still image from a video that the detective said showed Mr. Smollett returning home the night of the alleged attack, with the clothesline draped over his shoulders. The clothesline was wrapped around his neck when officers arrived, Det. Theis said, leading detectives to believe Mr. Smollett may have retied the loop.

Defense lawyer Uche suggested on cross examination that the brothers were homophobic, asking Det. Theis about a slur one of the brothers used. Detective Theis said there was a message containing a slur, but that he didn’t know if that makes the man homophobic. Mr. Uche also asked the detective if he was aware that one of the brothers had attacked someone at the TV studio because he was gay.

“One individual said it happened, but I don’t know that it happened,” Det. Theis replied.

Jussie Smollett (Credit Image: © Chicago Police via ZUMA Wire)
Jussie Smollett (Credit Image: © Chicago Police via ZUMA Wire)

Mr. Uche asked Detective Theis about the police report that included a woman’s account of seeing a white man with a rope hanging from under his jacket. Detective Theis acknowledged that he saw that statement but did not send a detective to re-interview her. He said the woman had seen the man a few hours before the alleged attack and that “the rope was a different color.”

Mr. Uche tried to discredit the police investigation, suggesting detectives ignored possible leads. He also said a $3,500 check the actor paid the brothers was for personal training so he could prepare for an upcoming music video, not for carrying out the hoax, as prosecutors alleged. Detective Theis acknowledged that the memo on the check said it was for “nutrition” and “training.”

Muhammad Baig, the first officer on the scene after the report of the attack, said he asked Mr. Smollett if he wanted to take the rope off his neck and “he responded by saying that he’d like to take it off, but he wanted us to see it first.”

On Wednesday, December 1, Chicago police detective Kimberly Murray, who interviewed Mr. Smollett the morning of the attack, testified that he told her then that he had received a threatening phone call from a blocked phone number days earlier. He told her the caller made racist and anti-gay remarks. She asked for his cell phone, but he refused to turn it over. She said Mr. Smollett also refused to give the police his medical records or a DNA swab.

Detective Murray said Smollett told her he had been assaulted by two men — one white man wearing a ski mask, and another man he couldn’t see — as he was going home after buying a sandwich. She said Mr. Smollett told her the attackers said, “Empire faggot, Empire nigger,” to which he replied, “What the fuck did you say to me?” Their reply, according to Mr. Smollett, was: “This is MAGA country, nigger.”

Mr. Smollett told the detective he was struck twice in the face, knocked to the ground, and kicked in the back and ribs. She said he had said that he felt a tugging around his neck, and the attack stopped suddenly and the attackers fled. He found that a noose was around his neck. Detective Murray also testified that she had driven with Smollett and her partner to the scene the following evening; it was too cold to walk.

Jussie Smollett (blue suit, blue shirt, black mask) enters the George N. Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago. (Credit Image: © Stacey Wescott / TNS via ZUMA Wire / TNS via ZUMA Wire)
Jussie Smollett (blue suit, blue shirt, black mask) enters the George N. Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago. (Credit Image: © Stacey Wescott / TNS via ZUMA Wire / TNS via ZUMA Wire)

The next witness was CPD Detective Robert Graves. He was assigned to the case with his partner, Detective Kimberly Murray, in the early morning hours of January 29, 2019. Detective Graves described two interviews they had with Mr. Smollett, at the hospital and later in an unmarked police car as they drove around to investigate the incident. He testified that he and Det. Murray handed over the case a couple of days later to Detectives Theis and Vogenthaler because they worked daytime hours and had more resources than night-shift officers.

During direct examination, Special Prosecutor Sean Wieber asked Det. Graves about his re-interview of Mr. Smollett on February 14, 2019, while the brothers were in custody at a separate location. He testified that there were inconsistencies during Smollett’s second interview about the race of the attacker he saw. Det. Graves said that Mr. Smollett initially said the attacker was “male white,” but on February 14, he said he was “pale-skinned.” Det. Graves said that he was troubled that Mr. Smollett “was now changing the story.” Det. Graves added that Mr. Smollett said, “I meant that he acted like he was white by what he said and how he acted.”

Det. Graves said he did not tell Mr. Smollett that the Osundairo brothers were in custody, but that Mr. Smollett concluded from the questioning that they had been arrested. Det. Graves said Mr. Smollett told him he didn’t know Olabinjo, but that Abimbola was his friend for about a year and personal trainer for three to four weeks. They hung out together and got along well.

Det. Graves said Mr. Smollett claimed that the attackers couldn’t have been the Osundairo brothers, because the brothers were “black as sin.” Det. Graves testified that Mr. Smollett had said he would cooperate and help find the people who attacked him. Det. Graves told the court that Mr. Smollett never told him he had met with the brothers in the days before the attack, nor did he say that he had driven around the area of the attack beforehand. Det. Graves also testified that Mr. Smollett had eventually provided police with redacted cell phone records, and that he later realized some of the redacted calls were between Mr. Smollett and Abimbola Osundairo.

At the end of direct examination, Mr. Wieber asked Det. Graves how many victims in his 30 years of working in law enforcement refused to provide a cell phone and medical records. He said “one,” and stood up to point at Mr. Smollett.

The prosecution called Abimbola Osundairo, an aspiring actor from Nigeria who had worked as a stand-in on Empire. He said he and his brother Olabinjo agreed to Mr. Smollett’s request because he felt indebted to Mr. Smollett for helping him with his acting career. He testified that he and Mr. Smollett spent time together, and became very good friends. “I would call him my brother,” he said.

Gloria Schmidt, attorney for Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, two brothers involved in the Jussie Smollett incident, speaks to the media at the Union League Club Tuesday, April 23, 2019 in Chicago. (Credit Image: © TNS via ZUMA Wire)
Gloria Schmidt, attorney for Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, two brothers involved in the Jussie Smollett incident, speaks to the media at the Union League Club Tuesday, April 23, 2019 in Chicago. (Credit Image: © TNS via ZUMA Wire)

They went to clubs, a bathhouse in Boy’s Town, and smoked weed at Mr. Smollett’s apartment. Abimbola said Mr. Smollett trusted him enough to buy drugs for him, including marijuana and “mollies,” also known as ecstasy.

Abimbola testified that Mr. Smollett showed him the stick-figure hate mail he said he received at the TV studio. A few days later, Mr. Smollett sent him a text message asking to meet “on the low,” which Abimbola took to mean a private meeting about something secret. He said it was at that meeting that Mr. Smollett first asked him “to beat him up” and asked if his brother could help. “I was confused, I look puzzled,” Abimbola said, as Smollett “explained he wanted me to fake beat him up.”

Abimbola said that before the staged attack, Mr. Smollett planned a “dry run.” He drove the brothers to the spot where it would occur, and they decided the men should throw bleach on Smollett rather than an original plan to use gasoline. Mr. Smollett gave him a $100 bill to buy supplies. Abimbola told jurors Mr. Smollett told him to punch him, but “not too hard.” Once Mr. Smollett was on the ground, he was supposed to give Mr. Smollett “a bruise” and “give him a noogie” (rub his knuckles hard on Smollett’s head). Abimbola also testified that Mr. Smollett said a camera in the area would record the attack. Mr. Smollett said he wanted to use the recording to get publicity.

Abimbola recalled walking with his brother in the dark morning hours, during weather that he described as “colder than penguin feet.” When the brothers spotted Mr. Smollett at around 2 a.m., Abimbola followed Mr. Smollett’s earlier instructions and shouted, “Faggot!” His brother yelled, “This is MAGA country!” They punched Mr. Smollett in the face and threw him to the ground, put a noose around his neck, threw bleach on him, then ran away.

The next morning, as news of the alleged hate crime broke, Abimbola followed another instruction from Mr. Smollett, to text him a message that read: “Bruh, say it ain’t true. I’m praying for speedy recovery.” Abimbola testified that Mr. Smollett gave him a check for $3,500 and wrote on it that it was for a nutrition and training, but he said the money was also for helping to stage the attack.

During cross examination, defense lawyer Shay Allen asked Abimbola if he tried to get a $5,000-per-week job as Mr. Smollett’s personal security. Abimbola replied, “No, Sir.” When Mr. Allen asked if he told Mr. Smollett that he and his brother would testify at his trial unless they were each paid $1 million, Abimbola also replied, “No, Sir.”

February 1, 2019 – New York City – New York LGBTQ communities rallied in solidarity with actor Jussie Smollett at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan. (Credit Image: © G. Ronald Lopez / ZUMA Wire)
February 1, 2019 – New York City – New York LGBTQ communities rallied in solidarity with actor Jussie Smollett at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan. (Credit Image: © G. Ronald Lopez / ZUMA Wire)

On redirect by Mr. Webb, Abimbola said he never thought Mr. Smollett would go to the police to report the fake attack as a real hate crime. He said Mr. Smollett told him that he wanted to use it to generate media attention, and that he himself has never lied to Chicago police.

On December 2, the State called Abimbola’s brother, Olabinjo Osundairo, who testified that Mr. Smollett wanted the brothers to douse him with gasoline and put a noose around his neck, that Mr. Smollett gave them a $100 bill to buy the supplies, and paid them with a $3,500 check. Olabinjo said Mr. Smollett told him he got hate mail at the TV studio in Chicago, “and he had this crazy idea of having two MAGA supporters attack him.”

Olabinjo believed the plan was to publicize the attack on social media, not to call the police. He and his brother decided to pour bleach on Mr. Smollett because he wasn’t comfortable with gasoline. He said Mr. Smollett wanted his brother to do the punching, and that it should look like he fought back. Olabinjo also contested the defense’s argument that the brothers were driven by homophobia. He told jurors he has nothing against homosexuals, and authenticated a photo of the brothers taking part in Chicago’s 2015 gay pride parade, dressed as Trojan warriors.

Olabinjo also denied a white person was involved, and denied that he and his brother wore masks or makeup to make them look white. Olabinjo told jurors he talked to police without a promise of immunity or under any sort of deal. He added, “It was simply just to get the truth out of what happened that night.” He testified that he and Mr. Smollett did not have a sexual relationship. Prosecutor Webb rested the state’s case.

The first witness for the defense was Dr. Robert Turelli, who testified that he treated Smollett after he went to a hospital early on Jan. 29, 2019, telling the doctor he’d been attacked, punched and kicked. Dr. Turelli said Mr. Smollett had some bruises and scratches, but no serious injuries.

When court resumed on Monday, December 6, Jussie Smollett took the stand in his own defense. He told the jury he met Abimbola Osundairo in 2017 at a club, where he learned Abimbola also worked on the Empire set. He said they did drugs together and went to a bathhouse, where they “made out.” He said they later did more drugs and had sex together. Mr. Smollett testified that he met Abimbola’s brother, Olabinjo, but that they didn’t speak, and Mr. Smollett never trusted him. He said Abimbola made it seem like they needed to “sneak off” when they were around his brother.

Brett Mahoney, a producer of Empire, had earlier testified that law enforcement was contacted about the alleged hate mail and that the letter was turned over to authorities. He said Mr. Smollett agreed to additional on-set security, but didn’t want anyone following him home, because it would be intrusive. Mr. Smollett testified that he thought the studio was suggesting too much security, such as wanting someone to drive him to and from the set. He said Abimbola Osundairo joked about becoming his security, but that he didn’t take it seriously.

February 1, 2019 – New York City – New York LGBTQ communities rallied in solidarity with actor Jussie Smollett at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan. (Credit Image: © G. Ronald Lopez / ZUMA Wire)
February 1, 2019 – New York City – New York LGBTQ communities rallied in solidarity with actor Jussie Smollett at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan. (Credit Image: © G. Ronald Lopez / ZUMA Wire)

Mr. Smollett claimed that he wrote the $3,500 check to Abimbola for nutrition and training. Mr. Smollett’s defense lawyer asked if he gave Abimbola payment for some kind of hoax, and Mr. Smollett replied, “Never.” Mr. Uche asked again if he planned a hoax, and Mr. Smollett said, “No. There was no hoax.” Mr. Uche asked him if he gave the Osundairo brothers $100 to pay for supplies for a fake attack, and Mr. Smollett replied, “Absolutely not.”

Mr. Smollett testified that he had just returned from a trip and was walking home after buying a sandwich at around 2 a.m., when someone yelled a racist, homophobic remark. Mr. Smollett said he turned around to confront the person, who towered over him. Mr. Smollett stood to demonstrate for the jury how the man walked quickly toward him, then he pointed to his left temple to show where the man hit him. “I would like to think I landed a punch, but I don’t know if it landed,” Mr. Smollett said.

He said he slipped and they tussled on the ground for up to 30 seconds. Mr. Smollett said he saw a second person — whom he believes kicked him in his side — as the first attacker ran away. Mr. Smollett said he assumed the person who attacked him was white because he used a racial slur and shouted, “MAGA country!”

He testified that he noticed he had a noose around his neck as he returned to his apartment. Mr. Smollett said he removed the noose, but a friend who was at his apartment called police and told him to put the noose back on, so officers could see it. Mr. Smollett said he was upset police had been called, because he would never have called them. “I am a black man in America. I do not trust the police,” Mr. Smollett said. “I am also a well-known figure at that time and I am an openly gay man.”

Mr. Smollett said that after the news broke, everyone — including Donald Trump — had an opinion about what happened, and that he hated the attention. “I’ve lost my livelihood,” he added.

Under cross-examination on Tuesday, December 7, Mr. Smollett said that a few days before the alleged attack, he picked up Abimbola Osundairo in his car to go work out and that Olabinjo came along. Mr. Smollett denied the brothers’ earlier testimony that they drove around together — circling the area where the alleged attack occurred three times — as part of a “dry run.”

December 1, 2021: Abimbola ”Abel” Osundairo, one of the brothers connected to the alleged staged hate crime involving Jussie Smollett, and his attorney. (Credit Image: © Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)
December 1, 2021: Abimbola ”Abel” Osundairo, one of the brothers connected to the alleged staged hate crime involving Jussie Smollett, and his attorney. (Credit Image: © Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)

Mr. Smollett said he refused to give Chicago police his cell phone because he valued his privacy. Asked by special prosecutor Dan Webb if he was concerned the phone would show several calls to Abimbola Osundairo, Mr. Smollett said, “No.” Mr. Smollett also testified that Abimbola told him he could get an herbal steroid that encourages weight loss but that is illegal in the U.S. He was to get it “on the low,” while he was on a trip to Nigeria. He claimed the text message he sent, using the expression “on the low,” was about the illegal steroid.

Mr. Webb asked about Abimbola’s testimony that Mr. Smollett recruited him for a hoax, and Mr. Smollett said it was: “Fully false, 100 percent false.” He also said of the Osundairo brothers’ testimony: “They are liars.” Mr. Smollett went on to accuse prosecutor Dan Webb of “misrepresenting the facts to the jury” and said, “There was no fake attack.”

Mr. Webb showed Mr. Smollett four messages that he sent Abimbola that night, while the actor was at an airport because his flight home to Chicago was delayed, but Mr. Smollett denied sending the messages.

Mr. Smollett also said he assumed his attackers were white simply because of the pale skin around their ski mask eyeholes and the racial slurs they used. He then said he “would never say they acted or sounded white . . . [because] that would be racist to say that someone acted white or sounded white.”

Mr. Webb noted that Smollett switched his description of the attackers to “pale,” to which Smollett replied that it was the “responsible thing” to change the description. He said, “I didn’t want to make the assumption that they were white. So I said, ‘Let me change that and just say that they were pale-skinned.’”

When Mr. Webb asked if Mr. Smollett believed describing his attackers as white would make his “fake hate crime” more legitimate, Mr. Smollett said, “You would have to ask someone who actually planned a fake hate crime.” The actor got upset when Mr. Webb asked him if “getting a few bruises” was damaging to his career. “Mr. Webb,” he replied, “I have a scar under my eye that looks like a bag for the rest of my life . . . . It’s absolutely a problem.”

Jussie Smollett departs after a court appearance. (Credit Image: © Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)
Jussie Smollett departs after a court appearance. (Credit Image: © Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)

During closing arguments, the defense suggested that the Osundairo brothers accused Mr. Smollett of staging the hoax because they don’t like him and they saw an opportunity to make money. Describing the brothers as “sophisticated criminals,” Mr. Uche said they staged the attack with money as their motive. When Mr. Smollett refused to hire them as bodyguards, they implicated Mr. Smollett in the crime, and demanded $1 million each not to testify against him at trial. “They did a scam called the blame the victim scam,” Mr. Uche said. Mr. Smollett’s lawyers also claimed that Chicago police rushed to judgment when they brought charges against their client.

In his closing statement, Special Prosecutor Dan Webb said Mr. Smollett broke the law when he made a false report to police. Mr. Webb noted odd behavior by the actor, starting with his refusal to hand over evidence to help solve the crime. “Smollett didn’t want the crime solved,” he said.

“It’s just plain wrong for Mr. Smollett, a successful black actor, to outright denigrate something as serious, as heinous, as a real hate crime,” Mr. Webb said, “to denigrate it and then make sure it involved words and symbols that have such horrible historical significance in our country.”

Over a course of two hours, Mr. Webb outlined an investigation that involved two dozen police officers and 3,000 man-hours that concluded with “overwhelming evidence” that Mr. Smollett was behind the attack. Mr. Webb told the jury, “Mr. Smollett went on that witness stand, took an oath to tell the truth, and made many, many false statements to you. . . . He lied to you as jurors.”

Jurors deliberated for two hours on Wednesday, December 8, without reaching a verdict. The returned to court the next morning to continue, and reached verdicts.

The Illinois disorderly conduct statue prohibits false reports to police, and Mr. Smollett was charged for each time he lied to police, for a total of six counts. After deliberating for nine hours, the jury found Mr. Smollett guilty on five counts. The verdict was not guilty on the sixth, which referred to Mr. Smollett telling detective Robert Graves on February 14, 2019 that he’d been a victim of an aggravated battery.

Following the guilty verdict, special prosecutor Dan Webb said at a press conference that he told the jury in his closing argument that Mr. Smollett “faked a hate crime and then lied to the police about it, and then compounded his crimes by lying to the jury during the course of this trial and insulting their intelligence.”

December 9, 2021: Special prosecutor Dan Webb comments after former Empire actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty on five of six disorderly conduct charges for allegedly giving false information to Chicago police about an alleged racial and homophobic attack in January 2019. (Credit Image: © Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)
December 9, 2021: Special prosecutor Dan Webb comments after former Empire actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty on five of six disorderly conduct charges for allegedly giving false information to Chicago police about an alleged racial and homophobic attack in January 2019. (Credit Image: © Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune / TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)

Mr. Webb added, “That verdict was a resounding message by the jury that, in fact, Mr. Smollett did exactly what we said he did. . . . The true facts needed to come out, and we did it.” He said some detectives worked 36 hours with no sleep, and other officers “had to trudge through these communities” locating film footage from doorbell security cameras. “What they did on this case was extraordinary police work,” he said.

Mr. Webb added that although Mr. Smollett committed perjury, he said that when someone is convicted by a jury, perjury charges do not normally follow, “but I’m not going to predict what’s going to happen here.” As for the count on which the jury found Mr. Smollett not guilty, Mr. Webb said, “The sixth count was two weeks later. . . . It was not that significant to our case.”

The disorderly conduct charges are class-four felonies, carrying sentences of up to three years in prison. Mr. Smollett could be put on probation and ordered to perform community service, or he may go to prison. The judge may take into consideration Mr. Smollett’s prior criminal infraction, from 14 years ago: misdemeanor driving under the influence, driving without a license, and making false statements to police when he claimed to be his brother. He pleaded no contest.

Mr. Smollett will soon have to defend against a lawsuit by the City of Chicago. In 2019, Chicago officials sued Mr. Smollett to recoup more than $130,000 in costs for investigating the fake hate crime, but the suit was stayed until the resolution of the criminal case. On December 10, the city announced it would proceed: “While using a different standard of proof, the jury’s finding of guilt convicting Jussie Smollett of criminal charges stemming from the incident confirms that the City was correct in bringing its civil lawsuit.”

Mr. Smollett will remain free on bond as he awaits sentencing, which has not yet been scheduled. The judge will hear pre-sentencing motions before January 27, 2022, when Mr. Smollett must return to court, and the sentencing date will probably be set at that time.

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  1. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    Real or fake?

  2. Sadly, he was only charged with lying to the police when the real HATE CRIME was against President Trump and every MAGA supporter in the country.

    •�Replies: @Justvisiting
  3. Anon[271] •�Disclaimer says:

    Oh what a tangled we weave, when first we practice to stage a hoax hate crime.

  4. A week or so before Smollett reported the “this is MAGA country” bleach/noose hoax to the police…

    [On January 22, 2019], Mr. Smollett reported to police that he received a threatening letter sent to the Fox studio where Empire was filmed. “MAGA” was written in red across the envelope, and the letter said, in cutout magazine letters, “You will die black fag.” It had a crude drawing of a stick figure hanging from a tree. The letter contained a powdery substance, which investigators later determined to be crushed Tylenol.

    Persistent little fellow.

    •�Replies: @Rob McX
  5. Gapeseed says:
    @Priss Factor

    Regardless, Smollett could only have dreamed of achieving such artistry. Thanks for sharing.

  6. @Priss Factor

    The tweeter says it’s fake in the comments.

  7. Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, two brothers from Nigeria

    … doing the work Americans won’t do.

    •�Agree: American Citizen
    •�Replies: @Maddaugh
  8. Jussie Smollett is just a no-account fibber and lying pretender that was in a show that no one watched. He then doubled down on a bad hand. What he said is not really important. What matters is how the mainstream media and lying politicians used him to form a narrative that is completely untrue: That America is just overrun with white supremacists coming out from every nook and cranny, and that they are so racist that they will forego sleep and risk freezing to death to attack any Subway sandwich eaters with a tan that may stumble by. These lying lunatics can’t find any racists on their own, so they have to make this up, and then as Jackie Gleason said, “and away we go!” They will not stop, the attack is on.

    •�Agree: Realist, Alden
    •�Replies: @gotmituns
    , @Emslander
  9. Sulu says:

    Smollett should have every penny he has left taken from him and donated to WHITE charities then be forced to appear on CNN and apologize to every WHITE person in this country for the crime that he committed. Then he should be given a choice of doing a year’s community service cleaning WHITE people’s toilets or take two dozen lashes with a bull whip and have it broadcast on live tv. What a total piece of sub human garbage he is!

    Sulu

  10. Franz says:

    All that money he was making… over 100k per episode? Does this fellow know what it even means to WORK for a living?

    No sympathy for tossing all that away. Hoaxes cost real money. He might FIND OUT what real work is in spite of himself.

  11. chris says:

    Missing from the article was that whole aspect of the cases about the charges having initially been dropped. Who had done this unbelievably blatant political move and how that came to be reversed. It’s mentioned but without details.

    Also missing is the background of racial tensions which, fueled by the media, had torn the country apart; before Smollett tried to play his part in the theater piece, already in progress. Which brings me to the question of whether this line of action, wasn’t perchance actually suggested to the over-actor.

    Considering the amount of coordination which went into the successful riots which rocked so many cities in 2019, it wouldn’t be out of the question to ask if there wasn’t some aspect of coordination to this incident also; even as badly executed as it finally became in the hands of these amateurs.

    That coordination had involved Antifa thugs/riot gear provisions/media/police stand-downs all without any type of FBI investigations! For all the spying they’re normally exercising on the population at large, the 2019 riot coordination was a complete black hole of information! The only investigation on the Antifa planning was done by James O’Keefe; with no law enforcement follow-up whatsoever.

    Rosenbaum, killed by Rittenhouse, was released into a small Wisconsin town from a mental institution, the day of an announced riot in town! Coordination? … well, for me, it’s clear enough.

    •�Agree: Emslander
  12. Jake Dee says:

    Justice 4 Juicy !


    Video Link

    •�LOL: chris
    •�Replies: @Anonymous
  13. Wake up says:

    Why are politicians like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker (just to name a few) suddenly quiet concerning this Hoax ?

  14. These lying lunatics can’t find any racists on their own

    am I to understand they’ve never seen a looking glass?

    •�Agree: Luus Kanin
  15. Rob McX says:
    @Wade Hampton

    He can forget about directing if he can’t come up with more convincing scenarios than that.

  16. Anonymous[661] •�Disclaimer says:

    Shades of the Tawana Brawley hoax. And she’s spending the rest of her life paying off a judgment against her from a defamation suit won by one of the men she falsely accused.

    Trump should sue. Justice would be Smollett having to send a check to The Don every month for eternity.

    •�LOL: chris
  17. I’m not complaining, mind you. But what is with the authors of these hoaxes making their stories so over the top crazy that they are transparently not true? When I first heard the Smollet story, I turned to my wife and said “I’ll take things that never happened for $500, Alex!”.

    I recall, years ago when I worked for the prison system, I had a black inmate actually write a formal complaint stating that I had stood in front of his cell, donned a Klan hood, and lit a miniature cross on fire! This presumably happened in broad daylight (I worked 0600-1500 at the time) in a housing unit that was about 60%+ black. Um, no… Likewise I had a colleague who once got a complaint alleging that he and other staff had entered the inmate’s cell and sexually assaulted him…as the passive partners in said attack! I think we can write the latter off as wishful thinking! I read a copy of the complaint and it was written in loving detail and read more like erotic fan fiction than an inmate complaint document!

    I would write off the rediculous, inept, almost cinematic hoaxes off as being due to that average 80ish IQ,if more intelligent groups such as jew or Asians sometime engaged is such transparent hoaxes.

    Thoughts?

    •�Replies: @Maddaugh
  18. gotmituns says:
    @Luus Kanin

    Jussie Smollett is just a no-account fibber and lying pretender
    —————————————————————–
    Yep, he’s a black, jew, faggot.

    •�Replies: @Fr. John
    , @Luus Kanin
  19. Racism, not credible in a pristine democracy. Rather a product of a deranged society: a poor man in search of fame and money to give meaning to his life.

  20. Tjoe says:

    Smollett is Jewish. Not a word about his religion in this story. Why not?

    •�Replies: @anon
    , @Jim Bob Lassiter
  21. He had acted as a child, appearing in the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks, and with his five siblings in the ABC comedy On Our Own, which ran for one season.

    They love and adore children in Hollywood as they are welcome refreshment from the abused, old and used.
    Conversion therapy in reverse, from natural to odd as I would not like to refer to them as perverts and risk offending Mr. Brandon’s PCs.

  22. Well that’s just how much Juicy hates white people.

    He’d give up “all that” to try and stick it to the man.

  23. republic says:

    NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace Stands by Discredited ‘Noose’ Incident in New ESPN Documentary

    https://tiny.iavian.net/1j059

  24. Maddaugh says:
    @Pat Kittle

    Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo, two brothers from Nigeria

    … doing the work Americans won’t do.

    Well at least they got a CHECK for $3500 and in addition slept with Jessie. What could be better than coming to the US from Africa and making a years salary in one night in addition to nailing a star LOL

    Their names are also amusing …….Albino and Bimbo La

    Aint this the greatest country in the world ? Except of course for the fact that Jessie threw them under the bus after he had used them, a typical trait of the Negro when he has been found out and seeks to save his own skin. Now they are suing him. Welcome to America Bruddahs.

    It looks like Jessie will be as broke as OJ by the time the lawyers and litigation hungry America get done with him. This could be a case of systemic racism !?

    Blacks should have no fear of whites. They need to fear their own Negroes….and themselves because I swear, they wake every morning and ask themselves “What can I do today to ruin my own life ?”

    •�Replies: @Pat Kittle
  25. Maddaugh says:

    Jussie is typical of many in the Hollywood class. They may make a lot of money but 2 seconds after opening their mouths the listener realizes they are as dumb as a door knob.

    If any race is representative of the fact that the human body can function without a brain, it is the Negro race.

    Now Jussie, who is in the show business industry:

    -Hires two Negroes with obvious African accents to play white men (poor casting)
    -Is therefore guilty of cultural appropriation and racism LOL
    -Pays them with a check ( doesn’t this guy look at crime movies)
    -Goes to a bath house with the BBC Nigerian bulls and services them
    -Does a rehearsal and keeps the evidence of said rehearsal
    -Is attacked by 2 white men in Chicago ? …..and they
    -Just happened to be waiting on a freezing Chicago night with rope, Maga hats, bleach etc for Jussie to buy a sandwich ……….
    -Greets the Police at the door with the noose still around his neck….and tucked under his collar LMAO.

    Poor casting, poor story line, poor directing and poor acting ! What a disaster ! It must be hard being black, dumb, a homo and a shit actor producer and director. Maybe Jussie will immigrate to Nigeria and make his fortune there ??

    •�Replies: @Sulu
    , @Mike Tre
  26. Wokechoke says:

    Smollet is a perfect example of Nigkike. Watchadoing Rabbi? Bixnood.
    The film about this incident will be interesting.

  27. Fr. John says:
    @gotmituns

    Gotmituns.

    That’s it, in a nutshell.

    Romans 1:32 all over this.

  28. Emslander says:
    @Priss Factor

    All these characters and the director MUST be given Oscars!

  29. Emslander says:
    @Luus Kanin

    See Michele Malkin’s piece for the connections to the Obama WH and to the Democrat promotion machine. Biden and Harris both used the incident in their campaign kickoffs before anybody real had even heard of it.

    •�Thanks: Luus Kanin
  30. @Sulu

    No, let the justice system grinder do its work. Sentence him to 3 years on each count, to be served concurrently. He will be out in 18 months to 2 years a convicted felon on probation, a broken man. Meanwhile bleed him financially, hundreds of thousands on useless appeals, then more cash lost fighting the suit to recoup the cost of the police investigation.

    •�Replies: @Sulu
  31. Maddaugh says:
    @Texas Far-Right Gamer

    You are asking us to give you our thoughts on the actions of members of an ethnic group who themselves are incapable of thought ?

    All these guys do is perfectly logical in THEIR world and they are flabbergasted to find out others think they are sheer idiots.

    I watched Jesse Peterson on Bitchute last night with some South African friends. Apparently, there is a recently “found” video of the lead up to Floyd ending up on the ground with a knee in his neck. There were a lot of ribald and irreverent remarks and our wives complained we were too rowdy.

    Poor Floyd, the 6.4 Negro convict bouncer tough guy felon gangster who put a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman in a house invasion, was crying, whimpering and begging the Police not to shoot him. Blacks are a curious bunch and trying to figure out these characters requires a Phd in some branch of psychology not yet developed.

    The only thing whites need to know about these apes is to avoid them under any and all circumstances no matter who or what they are !

  32. Iva says:

    Since Kamala Harris wanted to pass “hate crime bill” I wouldn’t be surprised if this was was her idea.

    •�LOL: annamaria
  33. anon[311] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Tjoe

    If he is part black AND part jewish, it would explain many things.

  34. @TellTheTruth-2

    This was defamation against every white person in the country.

    We need a class action suit to take every penny he has and redistribute it to needy white folks.

  35. Did the Obamas encourage Jusse Smollett to do the hoax? Smollett was BEST FRIENDS with Michelle Obama and even frequented the White House when Obama was the supreme leader.

    •�Replies: @Maddaugh
    , @Mackie Messer
  36. Anon[159] •�Disclaimer says:

    JewNigFag…

    Exactly what the Devil has for foot soldiers.

    •�Agree: Katrinka
  37. sally says:
    @Sulu

    Maybe a good response would be to try to understand how this set of events came about? Not the facts of the court case seeking conviction for offensive acts against existing laws but instead trying to discover why some in the non white communities feel that everyone in the all white communities are enemies to everyone’s societies? Why do some in the non white communities want those in the white communities to be enemies (<=something which seems to be a common denominator in these type events) and why do some in the white communities automatically become defensive and aggressive when non whites exist?

    My gut tells me this Non white vs white binary, is a politically motivated social condition which has sources which track to certain wealth, private power and commercial interest. This war-time like arousal appears all to often, in persons on both sides of the binary. It makes victims on the actors on both side. It is too well established, not to have a money and propaganda promoted foundation. Its the binary that creates the dispute, but it is the promoters of the binaries that benefit.

    Binaries are about divide and conquer politics. abortion no abortion, democrat v republican, male v female, white v of color. war v no war, socialism v. capitalism and so on.. I believe special and vested interest are driving these narratives into the news, social media, schools, churches to permeate our society. Those who follow either side of the binary victimize themselves; because the personal motives they develop direct their intentions and emotions to conflict with the intolerance of egalitarian societies.

    •�Replies: @Sulu

  38. Barack Obama Remembers Sandy Hook as ‘One of the Darkest Days’ of His Presidency on Shooting Anniversary

    “Today we remember the children and adults who were killed … and the families who have endured so much grief,” the former president said before urging action to prevent future acts of gun violence

    Barak Obama was president when they pulled the Sandy Hook hoax. The hoax has been fully exposed as a complete fraud, no kids were killed, they all growed up:

    So if Obama was in on the Sandy Hook anti-gun hoax, was he also part of the Smollett hoax?

    I think it is obvious, the Obamas were extreme deep state radicals hiding behind their smiles.

    What are the chances that Michelle Obama is drinking wine with the reflection of Norte Dame Cathedral on fire in her glass?

    IMO the Obamas are radical deep state actors and Jusse Smollett a young upstart wannabe.

    •�Replies: @John Johnson
    , @Justvisiting
  39. Gentlemen,
    Let us not forget that Jussie is a Jew on his father’s side. His crime against White Authentic Americans is signature Jewish subversion. His hoax appears coordinated with leading Democrats, including Kabbalah Harris and the Deep Jew-Lackey State. Jussie’s machinations could come directly from the Jews’ Guide For Destroying Western Civilization, if such a book exists. Usually Jews use blacks as their proxies. Jew Jussie used his black half. We need to sing these facts from the rooftops that Jews and their running dogs in the Democrat Party aim to destroy America.

    •�Agree: Sulu
  40. “When President Trump was asked about what happened, he said, “I can tell you that it’s horrible. It doesn’t get worse.””

    Trump is just as idiotic as the rest of them and in the big money pockets.

    •�Agree: Katrinka, Robert Bruce
    •�Disagree: Vinnyvette
  41. anonymous[139] •�Disclaimer says:

    When the story broke it was so obviously fake that it was incredible that a full grown person could try to pass it off. Yeah, two white guys with MAGA caps just hanging around in sub-zero weather in the early morning hours who just happen to have some bleach and a noose, no less, on them. And of course they recognize him because they were regular Empire watchers. If someone were to try to pull off a hoax one might think they’d make it as plausible as they could. Not this guy, he lied to the end without any shame. However, just look at all the politicians, including the current president, who jumped in to get on the bandwagon. What a sleazy, disgusting bunch they showed themselves to be. Did they really believe this incredible story was true? If so then their hold on reality is pretty tenuous. These are the same idiots who could get us into a war or crash the economy. A lot of people believed it because they wanted it to be true. This really brought the creeps out.

    •�Agree: Rogue
  42. Anonymous[291] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Jake Dee

    You beat me to it – this skit is hilarious from the minute he says Juicy Smuliet…it’s too bad, I actually remember liking Mighty Ducks quite a bit as a child.

  43. SafeNow says:

    Jussie has a lot of company in the hoax-creation department. Lawyers cannily, gently help their clients to concoct the story that will play-out the best under the legal rules of the game. Big pharma concocts hoax studies and trials, using PhDs in medical statistics. And so on. Jussie’s mistake was that he was an amateur at hoax-creation; it requires years of study and experience.

    •�Replies: @CelestiaQuesta
  44. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    Satire or Sincere?

    •�LOL: CelestiaQuesta
    •�Replies: @CelestiaQuesta
    , @Katrinka
  45. @Wake up

    It’s called zero integrity. No apology, no admission they were fooled by a charlatan, just cowardly silence.

    •�Agree: Wake up
  46. @Mackie Messer

    Depends on what the definition of “it” is. Is ‘it’ the obvious hoax or is ‘it’ the alleged hate crime? Sometimes Trump said things to confound the media and deprive them of red meat they desire to savage him.

    •�Replies: @Mackie Messer
  47. Corrupt says:

    Juicy is such a drama queen…. emphasis on the queen.

  48. This despicable pos will be forever known as Jesse da Nigga-Fag-MAGA-Hoax’r SmallButt.
    If they ever make a film about a gay black hoodrat with supper Vibranium powers, they should call it ‘SuperNigga’, and cast Jesse SmallButt as the lead character.

    Theme song;

    I was walking thru da hood
    With my d*** in my hand
    The greatest M***** F****
    In the African land

    I looked up a tree
    What did I see
    A black hoodrat
    Trying to piss on me

    I picked up a rock
    Hit his c***
    Made that nigga run
    Fifty blocks

    Wow yeah uh huh
    I’m on my way
    I just got back
    From the USA

    Copyright – CQ da plain white rappa – kool klan killer music Ltd – White Power Global Entertainment

    •�LOL: Maddaugh, Mackie Messer
    •�Replies: @Maddaugh
  49. @Mackie Messer

    Uh, Trump was right.

    But hamstrung in his ability to be so.

    •�LOL: Mackie Messer
  50. Agent76 says:

    Dec 12, 2021 Real Evidence of Fake News: The Jussie Smollett Hoax

    The mainstream media was quick to highlight a perfect story to forward their systemic racism narrative until reality once again upended their endeavor.


    Video Link

  51. @Priss Factor

    Now I know why carneys (circus clowns) creep me out. Since Ringling Brothers – Big Top Circus – Greatest Show on Earth went belly up, clowns have nowhere to go. With so many homeless carneys wondering around looking for another Big Top Circus to join, they perform in a imaginary clown world 24/7/365 all across America.

  52. Before Jusse Smollett tried to be a big hoaxer, there was Gene Rosen – Sandy Hook crisis actor and faker:

    https://i.insider.com/50f5922eeab8eaf967000001?width=750

    https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/abimbola-osundairo-and-jussie-smollett-were-dating-prior-to-attack-defense/

    Olabinjo Osundairo, 30, was questioned on past homophobic comments he made and admitted he used such derogatory terms toward men he “suspected” were gay.

    Testimony from the brothers, the prosecution’s star witnesses, dominated the fourth day of Smollett’s trial in Chicago criminal court on charges that he falsely reported he was the victim of a hate crime in January 2019.

    The brothers allege that Smollett paid them to dress up like MAGA-loving “Trump supporters” and “fake beat him up” that night,

    Fakery everywhere, especially concerning the Pozners:

    Crisis acting is a cottage industry in Amerika:

    https://theconspiracyzone.podcastpeople.com/posts/31184

    •�Replies: @Resartus
  53. Maddaugh says:
    @Yukon Jack

    Maybe Ohbummer got some. There were rumours he liked to bat for the other side before he became Prez.

  54. Maddaugh says:
    @CelestiaQuesta

    Yo Dogg, yu be gettin Gnat X and Truff madd wid yoh gangsta shit !

    •�LOL: CelestiaQuesta
  55. @Yukon Jack

    Jussie is Michelle and Barry’s son before they got hitched by jumping over the broom.

  56. @SafeNow

    You would think that a standing member of the Film Actors Guild (FAG), would have called on Magik Negro director Spike Lee to help with directing a NAACP Awards Master Piece, buy no, the little faggy had to hire two cheap Niggerians butt buddies to do a B-Movie if that production.

    It makes you wonder, how many wieners did he do to get cast in Empire.

    Obama to Empire Casting Director; Jesse (5 sec pause) is a fine actor (5 sec pause) with lots of talent (5 sec pause), the service he provided (5 sec pause) to me and my staff (5 sec pause) was excellent, (5 sec pause) I highly recommend her (5 sec pause) him.

  57. Resartus says:
    @Yukon Jack

    The brothers allege that Smollett paid them to dress up like MAGA-loving “Trump supporters” and “fake beat him up” that night,

    Jussie should have watched “Dirty Harry”…..
    That is the way to frame someone……
    Though Harry had an alibi……

    •�Replies: @S
  58. @gotmituns

    Well, of course that goes without saying, but I appreciate the way you hitched the donkey to the harness.

  59. @Tjoe

    Do you think the Israeli government would let him immigrate to Israel?

    •�Replies: @Katrinka
  60. Sulu says:
    @sally

    I believe special and vested interest are driving these narratives into the news, social media, schools, churches to permeate our society.

    Yes, you are correct. And those special interests are commonly referred to as Jews. They are the ones that have told the blacks for the last 60 years that the source of their dysfunction is the White race. And blacks, be an intellectually inferior race, are quick to swallow the bullshit because to do so is so much easier that to look in the mirror and admit their inferiority.

    As usual, fake news brought to you by real Jews.

    Sulu

    •�Replies: @Robert Dolan
  61. Sulu says:
    @Bombercommand

    That would have the effect of reducing his money but I think it would be instructive to see him have to apologize to White people. This would have the effect of demonstrating that blacks can be racist too and put forward the idea that blacks own something to Whites because of their dysfunction and general criminal misbehavior. This would set a precedent, which is why the Jewish owned media will never let it happen.

    Sulu

  62. Sulu says:
    @Maddaugh

    It must be hard being black, dumb, a homo and a shit actor producer and director.

    From where I stand it would be a fate worse than death. Any one of those first three attributes would be insurmountable just by itself. But all together? Better to be dead.

    Sulu

    •�Replies: @Maddaugh
  63. beau says:

    if there is as much hate crime as they say, why are they faking hate crimes? we know the answer.

  64. @Sulu

    Yes.

    All of the misery and chaos, anti-white hate, black violence, covid lunacy, global warming insanity, family destruction, Antifa and BLM criminality, and globohomo buttfuckery originated in the minds of a vicious crew of large nosed small hats intent on wrecking every nation on earth so they can rule over the wreckage.

    •�Agree: Sulu, Katrinka
  65. @Maddaugh

    It looks like Jessie will be as broke as OJ by the time the lawyers… get done with him.

    (((Lawyers)))?

  66. babu says:

    Everything about this case is suspect. The evidence has been thoroughly contaminated. The whole world knows that there is no justice for a Black man in the US. The only way Jussie Smolett can get justice is if this case is retried at the International Court of Justice at the Hague before a panel of judges half of whom must be from black African countries.

    •�Replies: @Maddaugh
  67. Katrinka says:
    @Priss Factor

    She should do a retroactive abortion on herself.

    •�LOL: Maddaugh
  68. An old buddy of mine came over the other day. I’ve known the guy since we were both in the fourth grade, many moons ago. We inevitably started talking politics when around the third Pilsner Urquel he said he could not understand why the Republicans were not challenging the hell out of the Democrats harassment of various Republicans, claimed to have done various serious crimes, that were not vary serious.. I told him I wondered about it for a long time too and finally decided that the Republicans, or enough of them, are the same kind of criminals the democrats are and that is why they won’t challenge them. They would only be exposing themselves. Trump opened Pandora’s box and criminal politicians in both parties are taking cover and defending each other.

  69. Maddaugh says:
    @babu

    I agree ! Perhaps we could convene court in say, the Congo and Jessie could go there and await trial. It might take years but hey, what better opportunity to get in touch with his roots.

    Any prison time if found guilty can be spent in an African jail. Of course we could tell the inmates that the Nigerian brothers tasted Jussie, that way they know how to threat him and he could feel right at home.

    If free of all charges then he could remain there with his tribesmen.

    What could be fairer than that ?

  70. Maddaugh says:
    @Sulu

    The actions of the black man leave reasonable people reeling. Just think:

    > Jussie was earning $65K per episode and it looks like it went to $125 K per episode. He has made 102 episodes so far. A man with an ounce of sense would accumulate the dollars and when the series gets dumped chill for a while in the Caribbean.

    >OJ threw everything away for white pussy and to boot did away with some Jew who was busting her. At age 74, he is now coming out of jail probably with zero

    > I see some other NFL player had an argument with his white lady and she disappeared shortly after.

    Its as if these people do not think !

    •�Replies: @Sulu
  71. GeneralRipper [AKA "Nemo me impune lacessit"] says:

    Typical down low nigger shenanigans.

    That’s what happens when a coddled negro who was raised by his Mammy, is given way too much idle time and money.

    •�Replies: @Sulu
  72. Sulu says:

    I keep waiting for our resident sage Truth to weigh in on this subject. Perhaps the picture of a half Jewish half black faggot that is so brutally stupid as to attempt a hoax of this transparency hits a bit too close to home for him to feel comfortable commenting on it.

    Sulu

    •�LOL: John Johnson
    •�Replies: @Truth
    , @John Johnson
  73. Anonymous[261] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Sulu

    Bull’s eye!!!

    •�Agree: Sulu
  74. Isn’t this post a little “late” to the game? What happened to the days when part of the point of being a journalist was to “scoop” the competition?

  75. Sulu says:
    @Maddaugh

    Its as if these people do not think !

    It’s as it these people cannot think. Fixed it for you.

    Blacks are, for the most part, irredeemably stupid. They are run by their emotions. They are quick to anger for any perceived slight, real or imagined and they are slow to understand. Their ability to control their first impulse is practically non existent. Reacting on first impulse probably served them well hundreds of years ago when they were on the African continent. I mean when you see a lion your first impulse is to run which is probably a good idea. But in a civilized, technologically advanced society acting on first impulse is usually the wrong thing to do. Blacks demonstrate this time and time again. In my opinion they have no business here in White America and the lot of them ought to be shipped back to Africa. A free plane ticket, a happy meal and a boot in the ass is what they all deserve.

    Sulu

    •�Agree: anarchyst
  76. Truth says:
    @Sulu

    Yes
    Or;
    Truth could give two shits about these silly non-events that somehow pass for “news” nowadays.

    Either one; you decide.

    •�Replies: @Sulu
    , @GeneralRipper
  77. Sulu says:
    @Truth

    Poof,
    It speaks volumes about the intellectual attainment of Jewish/Jigs though, doesn’t it?

    Sulu

    •�LOL: Maddaugh
    •�Replies: @Truth
  78. GeneralRipper [AKA "Nemo me impune lacessit"] says:
    @Truth

    Nice try, Uncle Remus.

    Pretending to ignore how almost completely dysfunctional the “African-American community” is, doesn’t really fly from a queen who regularly peruses World Star Hip Hop.

    Of course, that’s why you live around Whites and Hispanics, isn’t it?

    •�Agree: Sulu
    •�Replies: @Sulu
    , @Truth
  79. Sulu says:
    @GeneralRipper

    Don’t push Truth too hard. He may have to go down to the local gay bar and blow every White fag he meets in order to relieve his quite obvious feelings of inferiority.

    Sulu

    •�Replies: @Truth
  80. Tjoe says:

    Look at the media reporting. In the beginning of his hoax the headlines and lead ins described him as black….Jewish….gay, in that order. Pour on the sympath…..holocaust and all.

    But now that he’s a proven FAKE….look….the claim he is Jewish has disappeared, not in headlines, not in lead ins and not even mentioned in the entire article (check out above)……and the story will soon be buried entirely.

  81. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    ROTFL. Poetic justice for the blue progs. They virtue-signaled about George Floyd and defunded the police as ‘fascist’ tyrants over innocent blacks.
    The result? I love it. All blue cities, please defund the police and let blacks run loose along with demento Antifa dummies. DEFUND THE POLICE, ERECT GEORGE FLOYD STATUES EVERYWHERE, AND LET PURE-SOULED BLACKS DO AS THEY PLEASE.

    And remember yellow dog Asians voted 70% Democratic. San Fran is full of them. Hell with them.

    •�Agree: Sulu
    •�Replies: @CCZ
  82. Sulu says:
    @GeneralRipper

    What makes me laugh is the fact that this Smollett guy had already made enough money to probably hold him forever. He could have bought himself a million dollar house and a Mercedes and just chilled out for the rest of his life. The thing he really had to worry about would be his ankle grabbing lifestyle, since that would probably be the thing that gets him. But no! Those nigger genes kicked in and the stupid son of a bitch pulled this shit. Even if he doesn’t end up in prison he will be broke in a few years due to legal fees. And Hollywood won’t ever touch him again so he will probably end up working at McDonald’s eventually.

    And, if the stupid son of a bitch had just put a little more thought and planning into it and if he hadn’t paid his cohorts with a cheque he might have gotten away with it. It just goes to show that you can give an idiot everything in the world and they will find a way to fuck it up.

    One of the commenters here once said about niggers, “I would feel sorry for them if they weren’t such a menace.” Or something to that effect. It’s literally true. If they were not so criminally prone I would feel sorry for the stupid bastards. But they are such a menace they will eventually have to be dealt with.

    Sulu

  83. @Chris in Cackalacky

    It’s entirely possible that he was throwing meat to dogs to throw off the scent but only time will tell if he is a genuine patriot or another carpet bagger in the shape of a politician.

  84. Mike Tre says:
    @Maddaugh

    Don’t forget location: The Lincoln Park/Lakeview/Boystown neighborhoods of the north side of Chicago are two of the most left leaning places you’ll find in that city. There are no MAGA country people running around there.

    And this article also down plays the fact that these two negroes from Nigeria were taking Juicy to pound town on a regular basis. It wouldn’t be a surprise of they actually role played the assault complete with butt secks, using Juicy as the pivot man.

    •�Replies: @Sulu
    , @Maddaugh
  85. Sulu says:
    @Mike Tre

    It wouldn’t be a surprise of they actually role played the assault complete with butt secks, using Juicy as the pivot man.

    You are drawing way too vivid a picture for me. Lol

    Sulu

  86. @Yukon Jack

    You can just see the hatred in her eyes.

    She knows that Wakanda isn’t coming and is content to watch the Western world burn over a glass of wine.

    What a resentful bitch. Even with millions and fame she is still overtaken by bitterness.

  87. @Sulu

    The story of juicy shows why Blacks encourage a no-snitch attitude.

    Their stories for the police are routinely self-incriminating. I got bored watching First 48 for this reason. I couldn’t believe how many cases there were where the murderer would have gotten away with it if he had said nothing. They try to fool the police with some lame story that puts them at the scene or opens the investigation to another person. Also amusing is when the Black detective dupes some 18 year old into “manning up” and telling him the whole story before even seeing a lawyer. It’s just facepalm after facepalm.

    Still required viewing for liberals and “nice guy” conservatives.

    •�Agree: Sulu
  88. S says:
    @Resartus

    Jussie should have watched “Dirty Harry”. That is the way to frame someone.

    Right, he should have used a professional, and not rank amateurs.

    •�Replies: @Maddaugh
  89. Maddaugh says:
    @Mike Tre

    LOL. So what you are saying is that coupled with all the other B/S Juicie’s IQ descends to Sub Zero ?

    That is he has a head and so does a pin !

    You know I wondered why the fee was so low. Maybe Juicy was polishing those African spears so they gave him a discount. But now they is suing the Juice. Dem boys is going to retire rich in Nigrandia.

    If blacks, instead of looting shoe stores, looted BOOK stores they might raise their smarts to zero. Oh pardon me, most are illiterate.

    It wouldn’t be a surprise of they actually role played the assault complete with butt secks, using Juicy as the pivot man.

    Sounds like Gnat Z and Trouff. I bet those 2 are looking for the 2 Bruddas ! LOL

  90. Maddaugh says:
    @S

    Jussie should have watched “Dirty Harry”. That is the way to frame someone.

    Right, he should have used a professional, and not rank amateurs.

    Juicy Fruit did use professionals. They did rough him up only not in the usual way. Dig ??

    The fact is there are few black professionals. If there were there would be a lot fewer locked up in Da Bigg House !

  91. CCZ says:
    @Priss Factor

    Black “policing” NY City version:

    •�Replies: @Alden
  92. @Priss Factor

    Couldn’t get faker if it was scripted…..oh wait.

  93. annamaria says:
    @Wake up

    The American racial victimhood production has spilled into the UK, where certain D-list cable actress Meghan Markle accused the royal family and the whole commonwealth of racism – while extracting from the UK taxpayers millions of pounds for her princely wedding and exorbitantly expensive wardrobe.

    Smollett and Markle (and their supporters like the wealthy Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, and such) suffer a mental disorder that proved to be profitable.

    The overprivileged Oprah has been at the forefront of supporting both Smollett and Markle. These grifters have no dignity. https://www.1063thegroove.com/rb-news/hollywood-quick-hits-oprah-winfrey-jussie-smollett/

    Oprah is worth $2.7 billion. She is the richest black woman in the world, yet she still thinks poor white people have more advantages than she does because of their ‘whiteness.’

    •�Replies: @Sulu
  94. Sulu says:
    @annamaria

    Oprah is worth $2.7 billion. She is the richest black woman in the world, yet she still thinks poor white people have more advantages than she does because of their ‘whiteness.’

    Oprah’s problem is that despite the cash she is black, fat and butt ugly. The only black woman associated with tv that is even more brutally ugly than she has got to be Whoopie. Whoopie looks like an obese Orangutan that some one dipped in a bucket of Nair up to her neck.

    On the other hand I have met quite a few white girls that didn’t have any money but that were cute as hell. So in that way Oprah is at a disadvantage. I think a lot of black people’s hatred for Whites is simply that they weren’t born White. The White right needs to start telling blacks that are constantly whinging on about “White Privilege.” “It’s not my fault you weren’t born White and it’s not up to me to fix it.”

    Sulu

  95. @Yukon Jack

    I think it is an error to give Obozo credit for the Sandy Hook hoax.

    Yes–it was on his watch. Yes, Eric Holder traveled to CT to do prep work with the governor.

    But–the mass media propaganda was classic Deep State stuff.

    It was relentless and everywhere.

    The fakery that got my attention (as a CT resident) was when the call ins started to the local talk shows.

    Big city EMTs/paramedics were calling in and telling their stories–and totally blew me away.

    The way it went down is EMTs/paramedics in the large Fairfield County cities were just minding their own business when they heard on the radio or saw on TV that there was a school massacre in Newtown.

    Since they were good citizens they immediately packed up their gear, jumped in their vehicles and drove to the helipad at their city hospitals.

    They were ready to save the lives of wounded children.

    But–when they got to their hospitals and the helipads and were getting ready to take off and fly to Newtown they were told to stand down.

    They were told they had not been called in–what were they doing there?

    Stunned–they went home–and it was a couple of days later when it hit them.

    The Red Pill.

    Oh oh.

    You see-no kids were wounded.

    None.

    Oops.

    (If you look at mass shootings at schools over the years it gets kinda obvious–there are almost always more wounded than killed, usually many more….the EMTs/paramedics knew that…)

  96. Truth says:
    @Sulu

    I notice that you have left a number of impassioned comments on this internationally, integral event.

  97. Truth says:
    @GeneralRipper

    Well Old Sport, do you see a lot of World Star Hip Hop videos leading NBC Nightly News?

    OK then, you’re an imbecile with no worthwhile, logical point of view on anything.

  98. Truth says:
    @Sulu

    Zulu, i have noticed over the years that you spend an INORDINATE amount of time graphically detailing homosexual activity. Would you agree with this?

    Because quite honestly, Old Sport, “blowing white fags” or black fags, or, anyone for that matter, really doesn’t enter my mind.

    I wonder whar can be gleaned from that (wink)?

    •�Replies: @Sulu
  99. Sulu says:
    @Truth

    The topic of the story concerned a black Jewish fag. So the subject was fairly inescapable. There was also the earlier Rittenhouse story that detailed him blowing away a guy that turned out to be a Jewish pedophile fag. I must admit that I found that story exceedingly gratifying. I also found it hilarious that the media was enraged because he was a Jew yet of course they didn’t want to mention that little fact.

    Oh, your original rejoinder to my post concerning your conspicuous lack of comment on the Smollette story was one drop of piss in lake Superior weak. You would have done better to ignore my attempt to goad you into commenting. It was obvious as hell that a story about a black Jewish fag that is so brutally stupid as to attempt a racial hoax of this nature chaps your ass no end. And I wonder what can be gleaned from that (wink wink nudge nudge)?

    But, if it makes you feel any better I will attempt to refrain from referring to you as Poof. Except on special occasions that I happen to find you to be excessively annoying, of course.

    Sulu

    •�Replies: @Truth
  100. Truth says:
    @Sulu

    It was obvious as hell that a story about a black Jewish fag that is so brutally stupid as to attempt a racial hoax of this nature chaps your ass no end.

    He made $125,000 a week, a few years ago. Is he really “brutally stupid?” How much did you make giving scuba-diving lessons to German pedophiles?

    And this non-entity who did something that I give not a whit about, “chaps my ass to no end?” Old
    Sport, I spend very little time thinking about celebrities, especially C-listers. I do not belong to a Thursday Afternoon Lady’s-Sewing-Circle.

    As to your non-ending fascination with homosexual activity, I saythat if discussing this makes you happy, please continue. It is not my pleasure in life, but hey, make yourself happy; life is too short. –

  101. sulu says:

    He made $125,000 a week, a few years ago. Is he really “brutally stupid?”

    The short answer to that is, “Yes” as evidenced by the fact that he pulled a hoax of this nature. The guy was so irredeemably stupid that he paid his home boy cohorts with a cheque! Think about how dumb a guy has to be to engage in illegal activity and pay for it with a cheque! You are trying to equate the ability to make money with intelligence. But in the society we live in the correlation is frequently not there. We have black football players that make millions playing “monkey ball” but have a mid 80’s I.Q. And it’s obvious as hell that the little fag is not going to be able to keep his money. He is well on the way to being broke and possibly in jail.

    How much did you make giving scuba-diving lessons to German pedophiles?

    I never taught scuba. I didn’t need the money and besides the government doesn’t let non citizens work in country. And you seem to have a non ending fascination with pedophilia. I have got to suspect that it is projection on your part. You claimed to have spent time in that country. You also claim to be Jewish which means you have the genetics for a predisposition toward perversion of one kind or another. Why the fascination, Poof?

    Sulu

    •�Replies: @Truth
  102. Alden says:
    @CCZ

    There’s a theory that Eric Adams was involved with Black Muslims and Black panthers and other radical blacks back before he became a Cop. And that he was encouraged to apply to the police by the NOI. As a mole.

    During the San Francisco Zebra black Muslim murders of Whites the San Francisco police knew some black officers and civilian employees were involved in informing the killers where the police cars and under covers were. It was obvious what was going on. Affirmative action in action

    I predict Adams will talk the good talk but black crime in NYC will go on as usual or get worse With the full approval of the NYSLIMES and every other White hating liberal in NYC

    4 black murderers and a murder victim. Very culturally and ethnically appropriate

  103. Truth says:
    @sulu

    I’m not fascinated, your kraut relatives are.

    https://www.dw.com/en/police-germany-pedophiles/a-53984249

    •�Replies: @sulu
  104. sulu says:
    @Truth

    You know, Poof, you used to have a small value here as comic relief. No one took you seriously of course, save perhaps yourself, but as an inveterate troll you did occasionally provide a modicum of entertainment.

    But now you have just devolved into a sad, pathetic, little man. It is so obvious that this story chaps you ass immeasurably. The amount of butthurt you display is obvious. Just accept that Smollette is a Jewish/Jig that by luck had a bunch of money handed to him on a silver platter. But, because he is black and stupid (no other reason) he managed to step on his dick and is now going to end up broke and possibly in jail. Stereotypes become stereotypes for a reason, Poof. Sure, I occasionally happen upon an intelligent black. But it is not the norm. It is not what one expects to find. And when it happens it’s like finding a spring in West Texas. You wonder what the hell it’s doing there. Just face facts. There are a hell of a lot more Smollette’s in the world than there are Neil deGrasse Tyson’s. And even Tyson got his degree through affirmative action.

    Sulu

    •�Replies: @Truth
    , @Philmuhcrevis
  105. Truth says:
    @sulu

    My friend, again, I find the Smollet story about 10% less interesting than I find the story of how you have piloted a Piper Cub 6 times in Kansas.

    •�Replies: @Sulu
  106. Sulu says:
    @Truth

    Yeah, you find it less interesting because it reveals the truth about the intellectual ability of your average black. The dumb bastard had it all handed to him on a silver platter but he still fucked it up because he is a genetically interior stupid black. And you are a typical leftie. When you find something that directly contradicts your incorrect view of the World your first instinct is to try and marginalize it. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, Poof.

    In the words of Monty Python, “Run away. Run away.”

    Sulu

  107. @sulu

    But, because he is black and stupid (no other reason) he managed to step on his dick and is now going to end up broke and possibly in jail.

    This sentence is as raw and truthful as it gets. It quite simply is the main, and in my opinion the sole reason these sub human shit stains on the underwear of 1st world civilization are incarcerated at such ridiculously higher rates than humans. As for Juicy Smoleyay, if he truly was the “brains” behind this obvious racist lunacy, it’s just one more story on the long list of daily events that proves from an evolutionarily standpoint they obviously are the dumbest of the dumb. And with current events exposing all kinds of new and interesting details, they’re clearly the most racist as well.

    •�Thanks: Sulu
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