New in PJ Media:
Hate hoaxers are not generally an upstanding bunch, but even among them, Jussie Smollett stands out as particularly craven, dishonest, self-serving, and worse. Now, even after being tried and convicted for faking a hate crime and held up to international ridicule for his clumsy attempt to jump-start his failing acting career by gaining the Left’s coveted victimhood status, Smollett hasn’t given up. Slay reported Saturday that “disgraced Hollywood actor Jussie Smollett is demanding a retrial after being convicted of staging an anti-Trump ‘hate crime’ hoax.” On what grounds? I bet you can guess.
Smollett’s hoax, which involved his claim that MAGA hat-wearing chanting “This is MAGA country” — in Chicago! — jumped him and put a noose around his neck, was designed to smear a large segment of Americans as violent, bigoted racists. The establishment media, eager as ever to promote hatred and division, as well as to smear Trump, eagerly played along and made him a hero, with even Old Joe Biden and Kamala Harris chiming in on his side. While all that was happening, and even throughout his trial and conviction for faking a hate crime, Smollett displayed his acting chops: he never broke character for a moment and always gave the impression that he actually believed his own nonsensical claims.
Apparently, he still believes it all, even long after it has come to light that he paid two Nigerian brothers to fake the hate crime against him. Smollett’s lawyers, according to Slay, “filed court documents seeking a retrial in his conviction for orchestrating the fake hate crime attack that blamed supporters of President Donald Trump.” They’re claiming that the judge at Smollett’s trial, James Linn, was biased against not only Smollett himself but against his legal team as well. They’re claiming that Linn, who is white, “sandbagged their work during cross-examination, and let prosecutors strike a disproportionate amount of potential black jurors and a gay juror.” The hoaxer’s lawyers weren’t satisfied with implying that Linn is a racist, and are also claiming that Linn adopted “a personal retributive tone, based on speculative information.”
Nor is even that all. Smollett’s lawyers are claiming that the whole investigation of his fake hate crime claims was stacked against him from the start. They assert that Judge Michael Toomin, who appointed U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb as a special prosecutor to look into Smollett’s hoax after all initial charges against the hatemonger had been dropped, was also prejudiced against poor Jussie.
“From the very start of the circuit court’s order granting the appointment of a special prosecutor,” the lawyers’ new court filing claims, “Judge Toomin explicitly, unequivocally, and improperly set forth an opinion that Mr. Smollett was, in fact, guilty of charges which a) Mr. Smollett specifically pled not guilty to, and b) which, at the time of the appointment, had been duly dismissed.” Well, yeah, it was because that dismissal was so suspicious that the new inquiries had to be made in the first place.
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somehistory says
Race, race, race…..he’s much like his mentors, the non-reverend, al, not-so-sharp sharpton and the pretender president, bo.
His attorneys are the kind that give a bad name to the profession…one that many people need at some point in their lives.
Honest lawyers, and there are some out there, will tell a client when he’s in the wrong. These working to free the liar and spoiled ….not a baby, as babies aren’t racist…brat, are not behaving honestly.
The Law says that each defendant has the legal right to a defense; but this is going too far, pretending that he wasn’t lying when they know full well, he was, and still is.
Keith O says
Let him have his new trial, so he can be found guilty all over again and given even more jail time.
Given the high profile of the case, the prosecutor had everything set in stone with cold hard facts before it went to court.
James Lincoln says
It seemed like race relations in the United States were pretty good in, say, the 1980s.
What the hell happened?
OLD GUY says
Just another waste of tax payer money retrying Small et. He’s a loser.