My latest in PJ Media:
These have been dark days for hate hoaxer Jussie Smollett, but he is certain that better times are ahead. His lead attorney, Nenye Uche, said Thursday: “We feel 100 percent confident that this case will be won on appeal. Unfortunately, that’s not the route we wanted but sometimes that’s the route you have to take to win, especially a case where we remain 100 percent confident in our client’s innocence.”
Uche did not explain how anyone could possibly still be convinced of Smollett’s innocence, but he didn’t have to. After years of establishment media propaganda about “systemic racism,” often echoed by the highest authorities, including Old Joe Biden himself, a certain percentage of Americans will believe Smollett was really the victim of a racist, anti-gay hate crime no matter what the evidence actually shows.
Uche continued: “He’s a human being, he’s disappointed — but I will tell you this: I am very proud of him, I’m very, very proud of him. He’s holding up very strong, he’s committed to clearing his name and he’s 100 percent confident that he’s going to get cleared by the appellate court.” Yet as the New York Post noted, “Prosecutors said Smollett paid the Osundairos [the two men who attacked him] $3,500 for the attack and planned out every aspect of the hoax, down to the specific homophobic and racial slurs he wanted the brothers to use and how hard they should throw their punches.”
Uche claimed that Smollett was innocent because he was found not guilty of one charge of lying to police in one interview while being found guilty on other charges of lying. “Jussie was not accused of doing two different things,” Uche asserted, “and he was accused of doing one thing, and charged multiple times for the same incident, a jury cannot come out and say guilty of lying, but not guilty of lying. It doesn’t make sense.”
Smollett’s entire hoax was designed to smear a large segment of Americans as violent, bigoted racists, and the establishment media, eager as ever to promote hatred and division, eagerly played along and made him a hero, with even Old Joe Biden and Kamala Harris chiming in on his side. Despite all this, Uche claimed that Smollett had been found guilty in the media before he was found guilty in the courtroom: “From the first day of this case, his case has been prejudged, his case has been tried in the media, and it’s unfortunate, this is the United States of America. We live in a constitutional democracy where everyone is presumed innocent but obviously, if we’re being honest, that hasn’t been the case.”
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Mateen says
He may not become the new Alger Hiss, but he may become the new favorite of “Alger Zeera”.
Jim says
I would guess that his career is over as an actor. Perhaps he could become someone like Al Sharpton Or do PR work for the SPLC. There are still possibilities. He could be a narcissist or even a sociopath. Perhaps he is unable to distinguish between reality and wishful thinking.
mortimer says
A vicious, hate-filled narcissist. A TOXIC narcissist.
Westman says
Duh-duh, da-da-da, duh-duh….
Your mission, if you choose accept it, is to hire two Nigerian weightlifters to act out an assault and simulated lynching by white men. The budget is $3500. If you succeed, Empire will gain more viewers and your weekly salary will increase. Consider it an investment. If you are discovered, disavow any knowledge of the Nigerians and consider it to be a reverse Nigerian scam. Good luck. This message is from your alter-ego and will self destruct.
PS: Buy real rope and don’t place it under your collar even if it seems fashionable.
mortimer says
Next time, Smollett and his fellow-travelers shouldn’t choose NIGERIAN body-builders as the ‘actors’ in their hoax.
mortimer says
Just because one of the charges was not strong enough, for a guilty verdict, doesn’t mean he isn’t guilty. It just means the evidence wasn’t strong enough to convict.
Smollett was guilty of creating a hoax and presenting it to the police as a fact and WASTING THEIR TIME and wasting the time of the prosecutor and courts.
Wellington says
It would be a travesty of justice if this verdict is overturned. Smollett is already a travesty.
somehistory says
As has been said, “you can’t fix stupid.” He and his idiot lawyer should both be given their “signs” and then filed in the best forgotten file.
Anyone who is that evil, should not be given a second chance. He’s guilty and will stay guilty. Had he been found “not guilty,” he would still be guilty. And ugly too, he is.
Don McKellar says
I sure hope his lawyer can suck ever penny out of this creep during these pointless appeals.
Keith O says
+1
Just so long as there is no Go fund me page for him and he’s burning through other peoples money.
eduardo odraude says
I know Smollett is appealing his conviction. But has he been sentenced? I gather experts say he will get less than a year of jail time. But the Chicago government is apparently going to to sue him for the more than $130,000 the investigation into his phony “hate crime” cost the city. He diverted resources from actual crimes and perhaps his actions even led to someone’s death who, had more police been available, would not have been the victim of a violent crime. Not to mention that Smollett’s lies could easily have fomented riots, murder, and destruction. If I thought that hate crimes were not in fact infringements on the First Amendment, not to mention inevitably to be used with favoritism by whoever has political power, I would certainly support Smollett being charged with a hate crime. His shameless and incorrigible lying is impossible to stomach. Unbelievably, Black Lives Matter still supports his innocence despite all the evidence against him and despite his conviction! Of course black lives do matter as much as any others, but obviously the organization Black Lives Matter, or at least the founder who still supports Smollett, is no better than Smollett. People of the Lie. That said, it’s good to remember that the battle between good and evil is within each one of us at least as much as it is something going on outside. Smollett must be punished, but at the same time, perhaps we shouldn’t pretend to be too far above him.
Keith O says
Smollett must be the victim because he has the trifecta going.
He’s black, he’s a poofter and he’s obviously mentally challenged.
And of course his willing helpers, I mean attackers, were wearing MAGA hats so this is all a conspiracy by Trump.
Rufolino says
“Poofter” ?? Clean up your contemptuous prejudices.
gravenimage says
Jussie Smollett ‘100 Percent’ Sure His Guilty Verdict Will be Overturned
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Because his being guilty–despite copious evidence–violates the “narrative”…
Who cares about facts these days?
Westman says
I think he thought he and the lawyer could pull off an OJ verdict. He is still delusional.
OLD GUY says
Whats really sad is he will have access to a microphone and will continue to spew his level of hate and self importance. Last time I saw Al Sharpton he didn’t look to good, so maybe Jussie can fill in for Sharpton’s loud mouth.
David Graham Thompson says
At least is career is deader than disco