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GUILTY: Jussie Smollett’s Attacker Convicted | Ep. 1393

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	Jussie Smollett is convicted for lying about Jussie Smollett paying Jussie Smollett's friends to fake a hate crime against Jussie Smollett.
	And we walk down memory lane remembering our elite's response to the Smollett race hoax.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
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	Alrighty, so.
	Jesus Millier!
	May ends up in jail.
	When I say May, that's because he has not been sentenced yet.
	He faces up to 20 years in prison because he was convicted on five of the six counts brought against him.
	According to the New York Times, a jury in Chicago found the actor, Jussie Smollett, guilty on Thursday of falsely reporting to the police he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic assault in 2019.
	An attack, investigators concluded, was a hoax directed by the actor himself.
	With its finding, after more than nine hours of deliberation, the 12-person jury indicated it had chosen to believe the accounts of two brothers who testified that Mr. Smollett had asked them to mildly injure him as part of a publicity stunt.
	I love that the New York Times has to phrase it this way.
	The jury chose to believe that there was no evidence for any other account.
	Like, Jussie Smollett literally had no plausible account of anything that happened other than what actually was the truth.
	It wasn't just that the defense had no defense.
	It was that the defense's attempts at a defense were so laughably bad that there was no possible way for a rational human being to come to any other conclusion I mean, it's sad that they're going to be sharing a cell, but it's kind of the best thing that ever happened in the history of mankind.
	in a country, I think Jussie Smollett should be very glad to live in a country where his attacker is going to prison.
	I mean, it's sad that they're going to be sharing a cell, but it's kind of the best thing that ever happened in the history of mankind.
	According to the New York Times, Mr. Smollett, wearing a dark gray suit and a blue shirt, sat upright in his chair, hands clasped, staring directly at the jury just after the verdict Daniel Webb, the special prosecutor who handled the case, said afterward, Smollett only made matters worse by continuing to stand by his account at trial.
	Though that, of course, is...
	is very, very, very true.
	Okay, so in a second, we're going to go through the entire history of the Justice Millier saga because it is so illuminating about what America's media life is right now, how the elites view the rest of the country, the massive disconnect between this little bubble of people who will believe any narrative that casts America in an evil, racist light, an actual reality, where people like Justice Millier in American society, celebrities who are double minorities
	because he's gay and black, they're not treated as outcasts in American society.
	Far from it!
	And the fact is that Justice Millier was believed and cherished and treated as a victim because there are elites in our society who believe that everyone like Justice Millier is a victim and therefore should receive special benefit, should receive special treatment.
	And the reality, again, is very different when it comes to crime stories from what the media would have you believe.
	Wilford Riley, who's a college professor who writes for a commentary magazine, sometimes really, really great.
	Wilford Riley is a black commentator on race and crime.
	He says, you know, the media tried to say that the Jussie Smollett incident, as originally narrated by Jussie Smollett, was indicative of broader trends in American public life.
	He tweets out this morning, but there are real Jussie Smollett's, uh, bruh.
	Violence, interracial crime involving blacks and whites is about 3% of all serious crime.
	And of that 3%, about 80% is black on white.
	Yep.
	But that's not the narrative that the media are attempting to propagate.
	And so, Juicy Sommelier became a national news story with everyone just, we have to believe them.
	Even though it was the least plausible story ever.
	Okay?
	It was a super non-plausible story.
	It was as plausible as the story that Michael Jackson had naturally sired children, right?
	There are stories that just aren't plausible.
	And you can look at them, and you can see right from the outset that they're not plausible.
	And maybe you'll hold back.
	Maybe you'll say, okay, I'm not going to jump on this one.
	I'm just going to wait and see what evidence emerges.
	But our entire media infrastructure, our entire political infrastructure, went into overdrive to try and use the Sommelier incident as the tip of the evil American iceberg.
	And even now, the media are trying to buy this back.
	It's hysterical.
	Even now, the media are trying to say, well, conservatives, this doesn't mean that your case is helped.
	Great piece today from Jahan Jones over at MSNBC, titled, What Conservatives Should Realize Before They Relish the Justice Millier Verdict.
	Oh, tell me.
	Tell me, sir.
	I wait with bated breath.
	The actor, Jussie Smollett, has been found guilty of lying to police in 2019 when he claimed he was the victim of a racist homophobic attack in Chicago, bringing to a close one of the more bizarre high-profile celebrity cases in recent memory, says this columnist for MSNBC.
	Smollett told police in 2019 he had been assaulted by two masked white men who shouted pro-Trump slogans, poured a bleach-like substance on him, tied a rope around his neck.
	But two brothers, Abimbola and Olabingo Ucindero, testified that Smollett asked them to stage the attack.
	Abimbola Osindaro, who said he was friends with Smollett at the time, accused the actor of orchestrating the incident to draw media attention to actual hate mail he received in 2019.
	By the way, I have doubts about the actual hate mail in 2019, given the fact that JusticeMillier made it a massive issue.
	Why aren't people paying attention to this hate mail that I received that basically looks like I signed it?
	Olabinjo Asundera told prosecutors Smollett had this crazy idea of getting attacked by two Trump supporters so he could post it on social media.
	Smollett held throughout the trial the incident was not a hoax.
	Nonetheless, the strange, seemingly ever-changing details in the case have provided nearly three years worth of material for comedians and online commentators.
	Some of it has been quite funny, in fact, says this columnist for MSNBC.
	Even more comical, in my view, was the predictable conservative outrage over Smollett's allegation.
	Conservatives took to social media in 2019 to express outrage over the dropped charges.
	How dare someone make such a heinous claim about followers of their dear leader they screeched?
	Violent masked white guys who shout Trump slogans and use chemical agents to attack victims?
	Many on the right shamed those of us who knew such a claim was totally plausible.
	And then the January 6th insurrection happened.
	Yes, this is their defense.
	Do everything is January 6th.
	Or, alternatively, you are so unbelievably full of crap Okay, that is the alternative.
	The alternative is you guys are unbelievably full of crap.
	There's no defense to the fact that you fell for this because it was ridiculous from the outset.
	Oliver Darcy over at Brian Stelter's newsletter on CNN is also trying to play the game where conservatives are wrong for chortling over the outcome of this verdict.
	He says that it's really bad because this means that conservatives are going to use this in order to attack media credibility.
	Guys?
	You don't need any help.
	You've destroyed your own credibility.
	You are Thelma and Louise over that cliff, in that caddy, flying.
	Okay, you don't need our help for gravity to apply.
	Gravity just applies to you.
	You were stupid enough to buy all of this.
	Brian Stelter went on air and portrayed this as fact.
	And now you guys are upset because conservatives are pointing out that you have no credibility and you guys are a mockery?
	Okay, so, it's time to go back in time, just a little bit, to the original Jussie Smillier story.
	So you'll remember that Jussie Smillier was an actor on a show called Empire.
	Empire, of course, is a show that is largely watched by black Americans.
	Not a lot of racist whites watching Empire.
	That's just not a thing.
	So, Jussie Smollett was staying in Chicago, and he told CNN, okay, this is the way CNN reported this story, January 16th, 2020.
	Empire actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in the early morning hours on Tuesday, in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime.
	Smollett was attacked by two people who were yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim, police said.
	One of Smollett's alleged attackers also put a rope around his neck, according to police.
	Both fled the scene.
	Smollett took himself to Northwestern Hospital and is in good condition, authorities said.
	As of Tuesday evening, a Chicago police spokesperson told CNN that investigators canvassed the neighborhood.
	where the reported attack occurred and have found no still images or video from security cameras of the incident. The only image of Smollett police obtained from security cameras was inside a subway sandwich shop near the location of the reported crime. The actor was seen standing alone.
	Chicago police detectives continue to investigate the serious allegations according to the PD spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi. And this is the original report.
	Guglielmi said detective teams would broaden their search work around the clock to look for video on traffic cameras, buses and neighboring streets.
	Okay, so the way that that you see juicy Smollett narrated this crime, it was 2 a.m.
	in Chicago, in the middle of a polar vortex.
	It was like zero degrees outside.
	And Jussie was hungry for a Subway sandwich.
	So first of all, this is an implausible story.
	I don't know a single human being exists on planet Earth who has ever gotten up in the middle of the night at 2 a.m.
	in a polar vortex to go to Subway.
	That is really not credible.
	First of all, no slur on Subway, but they had a kosher Subway in L.A.
	for a little while.
	It's not good.
	It's certainly not the kind of food that drives you out at 2 a.m.
	in a polar vortex.
	But the sandwich will come back into the story momentarily.
	So, Juicy goes down to Subway.
	Happily munching on his sandwich as he walks the streets of Chicago.
	And we're talking about, like, kind of the Tony area of Chicago.
	Yeah, this is like the bluest area of the blue areas of Chicago.
	He's walking the streets, 2 a.m., when suddenly, out of nowhere, he's attacked by two red-hatted, presumably MAGA-hatted, white, white men.
	And they shout at him that he is a F-word, N-word.
	F-word for gay person, N-word for black person.
	From Empire.
	So apparently, we have found the only true Trump supporters on planet Earth.
	This is the original story that was, as you'll see, deemed unbelievably credible by everyone.
	These are the only two Trump supporters who have ever seen Empire or heard of Empire, as it turns out.
	And they're huge Empire fans, except they really hate that there's a black gay guy in a show that's entirely about black people.
	So, they start yelling slurs.
	And then, one of them takes a clothesline and wraps it around Juicy's neck.
	And he begins to fight them.
	He begins to fight them.
	And then another one of them takes a bottle of a bleach-like substance and starts pouring it all over Juicy.
	Nobody knows why.
	Doesn't even make any internal sense, this story.
	And finally, Juicy fights his way free.
	And heroically, never loses the sandwich.
	Heroically, when he emerges, there's tape now.
	We found tape.
	When he emerges from underneath the area where he is being attacked by these mad guy-headed, by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.
	After this happens, Jussie emerges with his Subway sandwich clutched.
	So first of all, I just gotta say, Subway is missing an unbelievable branding opportunity.
	Because if you are Subway, this guy loves Subway sandwiches so much that he is willing to not only fake a racial attack, But hold on to the sandwich during the racial attack, undermining his entire case, and eventually landing himself in prison, because he loves Subway that much.
	Forget Jared.
	I mean, you probably should forget Jared.
	It turns out that that got awkward.
	But, Juicy, as a substitution for Jared, pretty solid stuff.
	Okay, fine.
	So then Juicy goes home.
	And he calls the cops.
	And the cops show up.
	And when they arrive, Juicy is still wearing the clothesline around his neck.
	Which is an odd fashion choice.
	And the police are like, can we have your phone, sir, so we can see your location?
	And he's like, no.
	Well, that's suspicious.
	He's like, no, you can't see my phone.
	Of course, because he'd been texting the two guys that he actually, you know, hired.
	And by the way, Jussi is such an idiot.
	And when Jussi hired people to commit a crime against him, he did it by check.
	To commit a federal crime, he signed a... To commit a federal hate crime, he signed a check to make that happen for himself, which is just the best.
	It's just the best.
	Okay, so, in a second, we're going to get to Jussie Smollett's treatment by the media.
	We're gonna get to Jussie Smollett, what he told everybody at the time, because it is spectacular and wonderful and just great.
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	Okay, so.
	The actual minute-by-minute narrative we'll get to in a month.
	But first, you have to hear Juicy's account in his own words.
	So first of all, It does raise the question as to who the casting director was in Hollywood who thought that Jussie Smollett should ever have been cast in anything.
	Because he's an actor.
	And one thing that you're supposed to be able to do as an actor is act.
	I thought that was actually implicit in the name actor.
	But it turns out that Jussie is not only... First of all, never let actors write their own lines.
	It's always a mistake.
	Whenever an actor is like, I think this line is bad.
	I'm rewriting it.
	And when you let the actor write the plot, It's a rare actor who can pull that off.
	You see, it was not that guy.
	So he wrote a really bad plot with really bad dialogue, and then he reenacted it in front of all of us.
	He went on Good Morning America with Robin Roberts, and he was asked about his message to the gay community.
	What do you say to a young gay man, a young gay person?
	To learn to fight.
	And I don't just mean like learn to fight.
	I mean, learn to fight.
	Learn to be a fighter.
	I am not advocating violence at all.
	So let's be clear about that.
	If you're gonna die, fight until you do.
	Because if you don't fight, you have no chance.
	I have fought for love.
	I'm an advocate.
	I respect too much the people, who I am now one of those people, who have been attacked in any way.
	You do such a disservice when you lie about things like this.
	Oh, do you?
	Do you, je suis humilié?
	Guys, I have a message to you.
	You gotta learn to fight.
	Like, for example, when you're trying to punch yourself in the balls, you really should stop yourself from punching yourself in the balls by punching yourself in the balls.
	That's the way to fight.
	That's the way to fight.
	Fight for love.
	Fight for love.
	And people are like, this guy's credible.
	He's so credible.
	Look at the emotion.
	It's written across his face.
	Look.
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	Okay, then.
	But he had to run the gamut of emotions in this Good Morning America ABC News interview with Robin Roberts.
	The gamut of emotion.
	There was tears.
	There was laughter.
	There was rage.
	Pure, visceral rage at the injustice of being attacked by two Nigerian guys you hired to attack you while holding a Subway sandwich.
	Jesse, tell us about the rage boiling within you.
	I'm pissed off.
	What is it that has you so...
	Angry is it the the attackers is it hackers, but it's also The attacks. Oh, it's like you know at first. It was a thing of like listen if I tell the truth then That's it cuz it's the truth Then it became a thing of like oh How can you doubt that?
	Like, how do you not believe that?
	It's the truth.
	And then it became a thing of like, oh, it's not necessarily that you don't believe that this is the truth.
	You don't even want to see the truth.
	No, as it turns out, it was the other thing.
	We're- we didn't... believe you.
	Pfft. Heheheheh.
	...
	...
	Oh! It's so good.
	Heheheheh.
	Heheheh.
	Okay.
	Wait, wait.
	It gets better.
	Because then, as you see, writing his own lines here, he starts breaking into double negative territory, which is real solid stuff.
	Okay.
	I need to regain my composure while we play this clip.
	Go ahead.
	There is no doubt in your mind what motivated this attack.
	No!
	I can only go off of their words.
	I mean, who says ** Empire this MAGA country **?
	You.
	You do that.
	Ties a noose around your neck.
	You.
	And pours bleach on you.
	It was you.
	And this is just a friendly fight?
	Yes.
	I will never be the man that this did not happen to.
	I am forever changed.
	He will never be the man this did not happen to.
	Never, no never.
	and never in the know.
	Um, I can't admit, you know, he, what was, he doesn't know what was going through, he knows exactly what was going through his attacker's head, as it turns out.
	He knows precisely, down to the nitty gritty, what was going on in the attacker's head.
	And yeah, that's, that's real solid.
	So, he trots this out, and the entire media just, they love it.
	They love it.
	Now, pretty quickly, the narrative starts to fall apart.
	We'll get to the narrative falling apart in a second, but first you have to understand the overwhelming level of public support that Jussi immediately received from, like, the top people in America on the left.
	And it was universal.
	Universal.
	Nobody held back for more than- I mean, this is not a shock.
	The entire left also still claims that Michael Brown was murdered by a police officer in cold blood.
	The entire left still claims that Kyle Rittenhouse is a racist murderer.
	So it's not a shock that they all jumped on top of it, but this one was so obviously stupid that you would have thought that maybe if they had like a sense, like a smidgen of self-preservation, that they might wait like this long to see if some of the details didn't pan out.
	Because it made no sense.
	It made no internal sense.
	MAGA guys on the streets of Chicago?
	I mean, like, what?
	And, like, attacking people while shouting about empathy?
	None of it made any sense.
	At all.
	But, they didn't wait.
	And you know the reason they didn't wait?
	Because, when you're on the left, the great sin, the thing you will pay a price for, is not commenting.
	If you were the person who didn't comment on this, then you were bad.
	Then the mob came after you.
	Because how dare you not believe it?
	How dare you not be the first to rush to a microphone?
	It demonstrates your lack of fealty to the racial cause not to jump on this and to emote about it and to express your solidarity with GZ and hashtag justice for GZ.
	And so everybody rushed, because again, that's the incentive structure on the left.
	There is no incentive structure on the left to wait for the actual facts, or to put this, even if it had happened for a second, which of course it didn't, to put that in the context that Wilford Riley puts it in, statistically speaking, about race crime stats.
	Nobody would ever try to contextualize this in terms of, is this a national representation of what life is actually like in America for black men?
	Nobody would attempt to do that, because that would demonstrate lack of fealty to the cause.
	So, your incentive structure was, you needed to rush to a microphone, you needed to rush to Twitter, and you needed to sound off on how much you believed Juicy.
	And you had to beat your breast over it.
	You had to talk about how it was a deep problem in America.
	It was indicative of just how evil—and not only that, it was in the middle of the presidential race.
	It was indicative of Trump.
	It was all about Trump.
	In fact, the people wearing MAGA hats?
	That was probably Trump!
	It was probably Trump himself.
	He probably went to Chicago and chopped himself in half so there were two of him.
	And then each half of Trump reunited and BAM!
	Attacked Juicy Smilier.
	But left him gripping in horror and rage that Subway sandwich with two little rank tuna fish.
	We'll get to more of this in just one second because I'm honestly the show needs to go on for like eight hours today.
	It's just we're gonna go from here to like the 2022 election just on this story because it's that good.
	We'll get to more on it in one second first.
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	Okay, so...
	The entire left world mobilized immediately.
	You had Joe Biden, who rushed to Twitter to tweet out, using two fingers, because that's how he'd do it.
	He tweeted out, What happened today to Jussie Smollett 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, as you see.
	And, um, I have good news.
	Homophobia and racism had no place on our streets because the attacker of Juicy Sommelier is going to prison.
	Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, when she wasn't trying to bail out rioters in the middle of the BLM riots, that would be just a little while later.
	This is January 2019.
	She tweets out, Jesse Smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know.
	Well, not to Jussie, as it turns out.
	He was not so kind or gentle to Jussie.
	I'm praying for his quick recovery.
	This was an attempted modern-day lynching.
	By the way, this tweet is still up.
	No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin.
	We must confront this hate.
	It was an attempted modern-day lynching by Jussie Smollett against Jussie Smollett.
	Such lynchings have to end.
	Nancy Pelosi, who now has deleted this tweet, she tweeted, The racist, homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is an affront to our humanity.
	No one should be attacked for who they are or whom they love.
	I pray that Jussie has a speedy recovery and that justice is served.
	May we all commit to ending this hate once and for all.
	Oh, so moving. So moving.
	Maxine Waters, who has yet to find a race ride that she doesn't love, she tweeted out, So she's wrong on both of those things.
	He is not talented and he is not a beautiful human being.
	It is so hurtful that homophobic haters would dare hurt someone so loving and giving of checks to Nigerian immigrants to beat him up.
	I'm dedicated to finding the culprits and bringing them to justice.
	I have some good news, Maxine.
	Her search was not in vain.
	She was dedicated, like OJ Simpson, to finding the real killer.
	She was dedicated to finding the culprits and bringing them to justice.
	Jussie did not deserve to be harmed by anyone.
	Again, I have good news.
	He was not harmed by anyone.
	So that's good.
	Dedicated to finding the culprits and bringing them to justice.
	By the way, has Maxine Waters ever said this about, you know, an innocent black person killed by a black person?
	Which is the vast majority of black people who are killed in this country.
	Because it turns out that intraracial crime is significantly more common than interracial crime.
	Okay, and then there was Bernie.
	Bernie sounded off.
	We could do this all day, gang.
	I got all the receipts today.
	Bernie Sanders tweeted, the racist and homophobic attack on Jussie Spillette is a horrific instance of the surge in hostility to minorities around the country.
	We must come together to eradicate all forms of bigotry and violence.
	Here's the thing, the supply of racism and bigotry in America is so low, and the demand on the left is so high, that even a completely false, ridiculous on its face story like this had to be treated as gospel truth by the entire left, top to bottom, side to side.
	I mean, everyone, everyone, any expression of doubt was tantamount to a form of heresy.
	Pete Buttigieg tweeted out, while the struggle for basic hate crime legislation continues here in Indiana, this horrible attack calls all Americans to stand against hatred and violence in all of its forms.
	I'd finish this tweet, but I'm on paternity leave.
	And then of course there was Kirsten Gillibrand.
	The one-time presidential candidate.
	I say one time because it literally was one time.
	It was like for a minute.
	She tweeted, this is a sickening and outrageous attack and horribly it's the latest of too many hate crimes against LGBTQ plus IAA backslash colon little squiggly ding tilde over the end that turns Nina into Nina in Spanish.
	People and people of color.
	We are all responsible for condemning this behavior and every person who enables or normalizes it.
	Praying for Jesse and his family.
	We are all responsible for condemning this behavior and every person who enables or normalizes it.
	Who has enabled or normalized this behavior?
	Kirsten Gillibrand.
	Who would enable or normalize race hoax behavior?
	Who?
	Who would do such a thing?
	Kirsten Gillibrand.
	Who?
	And then the irrepressible The fresh, so fresh, so face, freshly met face head, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, representative from Twitch.
	She tweeted, There is a headline from Entertainment Today that said Jussie Smollett has been hospitalized in Chicago after a possible homophobic and racially charged attack.
	And she said, there is no such thing as racially charged.
	This attack was not possibly homophobic.
	It was racist and homophobic.
	If you don't like what is happening to our country, work to change it.
	It's no one's job to water down or sugarcoat the rise of hate crimes.
	Also, here I am sugarcoating anti-Semitism.
	Rashida Tlaib sounded off as well.
	When one of the most famous black and gay men in America is not safe, the message is clearer than it ever has been.
	She was quoting an article from GQ.
	The dangerous lies spewing from the right wing is killing and hurting our people.
	Thinking of you, Jussie Smollett, and my LGBTQ plus I-A plus L-U-Y dollar sign neighbors.
	I feel like that was not the lie here, but you needed to tell it, didn't ya?
	Didn't ya?
	Okay, and then of course you had the activist groups, you had Color of Change, which issued a statement at the time saying that the attack was a reminder of the real violence black LGBTQ people face every day.
	Well, it's not a reminder so much of the real violence that they face every day as a reminder of the fake violence that they face every day, because it turns out that he was lying and pretty obviously lying.
	GLAAD put out a statement at the time Saying, Jussie's experience is sadly not unique in today's America.
	By the way, that's true.
	Race hoaxes happen on a fairly regular basis in the United States right now because the incentive structure is very much in favor of race hoaxes.
	This has been happening, like, a lot.
	Like, shockingly a lot in the United States.
	This doesn't mean that there aren't hate crimes.
	It doesn't mean there isn't interracial crime, white on black.
	Although, interracial crime, black on white, is significantly more common.
	But, the race hoax issue is a real issue.
	And pretending that it's not is ignoring the state of play in the country.
	Okay, and then of course you had the entire celebrity class.
	So you had Ariana Grande.
	We tweeted out what happened to Jesse makes me really effing sick to my stomach.
	I can't believe bleep like this is really still happening every day.
	I can't, I can't believe it either.
	Because number one, it's not really happening every day.
	And also because it's not.
	So that.
	What kind of world?
	Question mark?
	Sending all of the healing energy slash love I possibly can and hoping for change.
	What can we do?
	Tell me and I'm there.
	Well, you could, you know, not help propagate a lie.
	Shonda Rhimes, she tweeted, we all have a responsibility to rise up against the ignorance and hate out there.
	If you know who did this to Jussie Smollett, report them to police.
	I'm on it.
	I'm on it.
	I know who did this to Jussie Smollett.
	Kerry Washington tweeted, Dear God!
	Ah!
	Ah!
	She stares up to the heavens, tears pouring down her face.
	Why, oh God, why?
	Prayers and justice for Jussie Smollett.
	Uh, justice came for Jussie Smollett, but not in the fo- Be careful what you wish for.
	Zendaya?
	Tweeted out, this is terrifying and heartbreaking.
	Please pay attention to what's happening here.
	Well, the problem is, we kind of did.
	That was the problem in this story, because Juicy probably thought, okay, well, I'll tell my tale.
	Maybe I won't even go to the cops.
	And then it'll all be like I was a hero.
	And then everybody was like, well, you know, when you do that, we pay really close attention.
	And he's like, well, then you get the Homer Simpson gif of him just like backing into a bush.
	Reverend Al Sharpton, who is always a plausible source when it comes to the veracity of interracial hate crimes.
	It's not like Al Sharpton, who still has a show on MSNBC, it's not like he actively propagated the lie that a Manhattan DA raped an underage black girl and then scrawled racial slurs on her in feces back in the 1980s.
	That'd be the Tawana Browley hoax.
	Al Sharpton would never be complicit in something like that, so I take his judgment.
	He has solid judgment on what is true and what is false when it comes to race hoaxes.
	He tweeted out at the time, the reported hate attack on my friend and brother, actor Jussie Smollett, is despicable and outrageous.
	The guilty must face the maximum.
	I come bearing glad tidings, Reverend Al.
	The guilty must face the maximum.
	Viola Davis tweeted, O-M-G!
	Double exclamation point.
	This is why the LGBTQ plus I-A-O-P, open bracket, closed bracket, backslash, double quotation mark, carrot, little weird thing above the option button.
	This is why that community continues to fight to be seen and protected against hate.
	We all have to take this racist and homophobic attack to violence very personally.
	My arms are around you, Jussie Smollett.
	You are loved.
	Well, the good news for Jussie Smollett is that Jussie Smollett's arms were also around Jussie Smollett when Jussie Smollett was attacking Jussie Smollett in the middle of a hate crime against Jussie Smollett.
	Ellen's Generous tweeted about it, and I'm sending him and his family so much love today.
	So much love.
	Cher's was pretty great.
	Cher tweeted out, The best thing about Cher's Twitter account is that she's so clearly drunk when she writes these tweets.
	Like, the caps lock goes on, and you have to imagine when Cher tweets these things, that the caps lock button goes on, and she knows about halfway through the tweet that it's on, and she's like, ah!
	Emoji!
	So here's what she tweeted.
	NPR.
	Villainy!
	Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Homophobia.
	Promoted by most infamous clown.
	Clown emoji.
	In world emoji is the poison that kills American flag.
	Period.
	No space.
	White only is not right.
	Period.
	American flag is poople of color.
	Praying hands.
	GOP goes down with ship.
	Digity.
	Small digity.
	Ah, Cher.
	It's that sort of insight that makes you such a wondrous addition to America's political discourse.
	So, you had the entire political infrastructure that came to Jussie's defense.
	You had the entire entertainment infrastructure that came to Jussie's defense.
	You had prominent members of the media who were helping out.
	As it turns out, Don Lemon was texting with Jussie and telling Jussie that the police didn't believe him, which seems to be kind of a violation of journalistic ethics.
	He had places like GQ writing articles titled, And by the way, they didn't present it as an opinion piece.
	Originally, they presented it as just a journalistic piece.
	And later, they were like, oh yeah, it's an opinion piece.
	The editor's notes on this are pretty spectacular.
	The editor's note, 222.
	In the original version of this piece, GQ made two errors in editorial judgment.
	We failed to clearly present the post as an opinion piece.
	And we regret applying unfounded political motivations to then-breaking news with the original headline.
	We have altered the headline.
	Juicy... Update!
	Jussie Smollett was arrested.
	Update!
	The story is fast-moving.
	We're keeping an eye on the news as it develops.
	Whoopsie-doodle!
	But again, the entire piece is predicated on the idea that Jussie Smollett is representative of black men in America and gay men in America, and none of that is true.
	None of that is true.
	But that was the narrative.
	That's why they did this.
	If it were not a narrative story, it wouldn't matter.
	And by the way, it is important to remember that Juicy was part and parcel of the left-wing infrastructure.
	He was a very political actor.
	He was always political.
	And he kind of fell out of prominence because the Obamas were no longer in office, and so him hanging out with Michelle Obama just wasn't the same.
	But I mean, this is a guy who literally went dancing with Michelle Obama, right?
	This is a person who was very political.
	I mean, here's some video of him dancing with Michelle Obama back in 2018.
	Ah, how the mighty have fallen.
	Here he was dancing with Michelle Obama one year before he faked a hate crime against himself.
	By the way, it didn't, it wasn't just that he danced with Michelle Obama.
	As it turns out, At the time, Tina Tchen's longtime friend was not surprised that the former Obama administration aide helped connect Jussie Smollett's family with a top Illinois prosecutor.
	Weeks before a grand jury indicted Smollett on the theory he falsely reported being the victim of a hate crime, relatives of the actor had expressed to Tina Tchen concerns about the investigation by Chicago PD.
	Getting the right person to take those sorts of concerns seriously has been a hallmark of Tina Tchen's career, highlighted by a stint as then-First Lady Michelle Obama's Chief of Staff.
	So, she reached out, Michelle Obama's Chief of Staff, to prosecutors to try and work on behalf of Jussie Smollett.
	Chen said her contact with Kim Foxx on behalf of Smollett's family was not intended to influence the case's outcome.
	Oh, sure, it wasn't.
	Shortly after Smollett reported he was attacked as a family friend, I contacted Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, who I also know from prior work together, she said.
	My sole activity was to put the chief prosecutor in the case in touch with an alleged victim's family who had concerns about how the investigation was being characterized in public.
	So, um, that was how tied in Jussie Smollett was to the infrastructure here.
	Now, we have to go back to what exactly happened, what the timeline was, because honestly, it's just, it's a wonderful timeline.
	And then we'll get to the defense that Jussie tried to provide for his behavior.
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	Alrighty, so now let's go through the actual timeline of what happened with Jesse because Okay, so, 1230 AM, as according to the Chicago Tribune, Smolier arrives at O'Hare International Airport on a flight from New York after a four-hour delay.
	At 1249 AM, Smolier, called Abimbola Usindaro, told him the attack would take place at 2 AM at the corner of New and North Water Streets, a predetermined location.
	Minutes later, That guy's brother, a Lubin Jew, ordered an Uber rideshare, which picks the brothers up at their Lakeview apartment and drops them in the 1400 block of North Well Street.
	They hailed a cab, which took them to within three blocks of the meeting site.
	From 1.22 a.m.
	until 2.03 a.m., surveillance videos show the Ucindero brothers on foot in an area bordered on the north by Illinois Street, south by the Chicago River, west to Columbus Drive, east to Lakeshore.
	1.30 a.m., Smollett arrived at his apartment.
	1.45, he left his apartment building to walk to a nearby Subway restaurant.
	Again, this is where the suspicious activity begins.
	2 a.m., the Ucindero brothers arrived at the intersection of New and North Water Streets, but Smollett was not there.
	They walked a quarter block north and waited near a bench.
	At 2.04 a.m., Smollett arrives, and the attack was staged just outside the view of a nearby surveillance camera.
	He would later claim that two white men approached him, shouted slurs at him, struck him in the face, and poured an unknown substance on him before one of them wrapped a rope around his neck.
	While the 45-second incident occurs, an employee of nearby NBC News Chicago observed it and later tells police she heard nothing.
	Smollett also said he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the attack.
	And then after the attack, there was video evidence showing the brothers running away.
	And then they got into a taxi.
	And then they got out of the taxi at their apartment and walked north.
	At 2.27 a.m., Smollett's business manager, Frank Gatson, called the cops from the actor's apartment.
	Surveillance camera footage shows the actor still had the rope around his neck when he returned to the building, which is definitely what you do.
	When someone tries to garret you, you just keep that hanging around.
	I mean, why not?
	2.42, officers arrived at Smollett's apartment building to interview him.
	They observed cuts and scrapes on his face and noticed a small rope around his neck.
	At Smollett's request, the officers turned off the body cameras.
	Of course.
	According to Chicago Police Spokesperson, Anthony Guglielmi, Smollett told them the attackers yelled he was in MEGA COUNTRY and then he went to the hospital.
	And then, 18 hours after the attack, he placed a 5 second call to one of the brothers.
	And then a little bit later, they placed a call back to Jussie Smollett.
	Okay, so that was the actual timeline of what happened.
	I think that it is, I think it is necessary for us to just remind ourselves of how absurd this whole thing was.
	Within days of all of this coming out, Jussie Smillier's attorneys claimed that the reason that Jussie was attacked by two black men, not two white men, and that Jussie reported that it was two white men, that the reason that this happened is because maybe, maybe the two Nigerian brothers were wearing whiteface.
	Mm-hmm.
	The Osendairo brothers, what are the chances that that's the case?
	That he saw somebody with light skin?
	Well, you know, I mean, I think there's obviously you can disguise that, you could put makeup on.
	There is actually, interestingly enough, a video, you know, I think police did minimal investigation in this case.
	It was, it took me all of five minutes to Google, you know, I was looking up the brothers and one of the first videos that showed up actually was one of the brothers in white face doing a Joker monologue with white makeup on.
	And so it's not, it's not implausible.
	Uh, no, actually, it's super-duper-pooper-scooper-implausible.
	I love that we're so far down the America is racist rabbit hole that in order to prove America is racist, a black gay man had to fake an attack on himself by hiring two brothers from Nigeria and then have his lawyer claim on national television that it was two black people who dressed up as white people to attack him.
	Yeah, man.
	I feel like, for all the people who say systemic racism is the nature of all of this, yeah, I have some questions.
	There's a great article by Kyle Smith over at National Review going through some of the details of the magic of the Jussie Smollett trial.
	It's titled, Jussie Smollett, Funniest Trial Ever.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	He says, the prosecution made a case that was airtight, locked down, seamless as an egg.
	So what did Team Smollett do?
	They whined there should be a mistrial because the judge had snarled and lunged at them.
	The judge missed the opportunity to say, I only snarl when my bushwhawk detector goes off like a Geiger counter at Chernobyl, and I can't very well lunge when I'm sitting at this desk.
	The defense lawyers asked for a directed not guilty finding, which was so sweet it was like learning an eighth grader had written to Emily Ratajkowski with an earnest proposal of marriage.
	Smollett's publicist, called upon to testify by his side, noted that a celebrity whose earning potential depended on his face would not want to undergo any process that might significantly damage said face.
	Just so, cried America, because he didn't damage his face.
	As for Smollett's pals testifying against him, they produced a $3,500 check Juicy had written them as an advance payment, because the ringmaster of this flea circus was too dumb to understand that cash is the preferred payment method when doing stuff you don't want others to find out about.
	Lawyers tried to explain this was for nutritional tips.
	The supposed nutritional advisory siblings said no one had ever paid them more than $100 for such advice before.
	Also, they were texting each other beforehand, and they were using Uber, and yeah, it was just a genius move all the way through.
	Framing the attack as an episode of homophobia opens up more questions that Smollett can't answer.
	If the brothers were looking to attack a random gay person and had an irrepressible 2 a.m.
	urge to do so, why didn't they go to the gay neighborhood where one of them worked?
	Why are they hanging around over here?
	And the answer is because it was all bull.
	So, here's the thing.
	By April of 2019, we all knew this was bull.
	And the media kept trying to proclaim that maybe it was true.
	Maybe it was true.
	But black comedians were having none of it.
	Tracy Morgan, April 2019.
	Mocking all this.
	Like, I have to tell you, the woke white people are just the worst.
	Okay, I want to contrast something.
	So here is Ellen Page.
	Sorry, no, this is Elliot Page.
	This is when Elliot was Ellen.
	Elliot is still a woman, but now has had some surgeries and is a trans man.
	This is when Elliot was Ellen and trying to present as a woman.
	We have a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime.
	It's absurd.
	time this was Ellen Page. Okay, so this is Ellen Page who was with Stephen Colbert, both of them agreeing that to even doubt Jussie Smollett's story demonstrated that you didn't take seriously the problem of gay black Americans or some such.
	We have a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime. It's absurd. This s*** isn't a debate.
	It's a little of a debate.
	A little.
	And Stephen Colbert, he says, I agree.
	I agree.
	Because that's what matters.
	It's the agreement among the elites.
	So here's the thing, why would you ever trust these people again?
	Why would you ever, ever, ever trust these people again?
	And you shouldn't.
	You shouldn't.
	Because they're so full of it.
	They're full of it every... Like, at the very least, you should wait to draw a conclusion from any headline they report.
	24-hour rule.
	Okay, wait 24 hours and see if any story they report bears elementary scrutiny.
	Because they'll report anything that backs their narrative, even a story as ridiculous as Juicy Smilies.
	And honestly, I'm just happy to be living in a country where people who conspire to commit an attack on a gay black man by other gay black men, hired by the original gay black man, where those people go to prison where they can share a cell with the gay black man because they're the same human.
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