Don Lemon branded his pal Jussie Smollett a liar just hours after the actor was convicted of staging a hate crime against himself on Thursday — but the CNN host still failed to address his own role in the made-for-TV drama.
Lemon discussed the “Empire” star’s guilty verdict on his show Thursday night during a brief segment with legal analyst Joey Jackson.
CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett was convicted Thursday of staging a hate crime nearly three years after he claimed two Trump-loving bigots beat him up, tied a noose around his neck and doused him in bleach in a misbegotten bid to raise his public profile.
Twelve jurors in Chicago criminal court found the disgraced actor guilty of five of six counts of felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report following testimony from 13 witnesses and more than nine hours of deliberation.
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Jussie Smollett is a despicable and disgraceful human being who should have the book thrown at him. pic.twitter.com/aSeqDI5oOj
— Thought Criminal (@Craftmastah) December 10, 2021
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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote Wednesday that disgraced former Empire actor Jussie Smollett could walk out of court a free man, thanks to testimony aimed at persuading the jury to sympathize with him.
I can’t see a jury deliberately ignoring evidence and letting Jussie off. He isn’t “likeable” for any reason.
Pity that at most he faces 3 years in jail. I doubt he’ll do a third of that.
A senior Black Lives Matter leader has strongly defended Jussie Smollett as he awaits the verdict in his trial on allegations of faking a hate crime, insisting that Smollett should be acquitted because ‘we can never believe police’.
Smollett, 39, is currently on trial in Chicago, accused of having orchestrated a fake attack on himself in January 2019, then lied to Chicago police about being the victim of an anti-gay, racist hate crime.
Jurors are expected to resume deliberations on Thursday, having deliberated for about two hours on Wednesday following a roughly one-week trial.
Shocka! – 74% think Smollett staged fake hate crime: poll
It seems likely that Jussie Smollett will regret his decision to testify in his own defense.
On Tuesday, a writer at The Daily Beast couldn’t deny that Jussie Smollett got “nailed” during his cross-examination, and now legal experts are chiming in and have nothing good to say about Smollett’s performance.
Not since Rumpelstiltskin has a mischievous troll spent so much time and energy spinning as Jussie Smollett did on the stand the last couple of days. But instead of spinning straw into gold, Smollett spent eight hours trying to churn what the New York Times used to call a barnyard epithet into a Frappuccino. We’ll see if the jury is interested in drinking what Smollett is putting out.
Jussie Smollett , the actor accused of orchestrating a hate crime hoax on himself, took the stand Monday and said he “wouldn’t be my mother’s son” if he were capable of masterminding the incident that captivated the nation in 2019.
The former Empire actor is charged with six counts of disorderly conduct on suspicion of making false reports to police. Smollett, who is black and gay, has repeatedly denied staging the attack. He told authorities two men beat him up and tied a noose around his neck.
CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett’s attorneys asked for a mistrial Thursday after the judge called their evidence irrelevant in front of the jury and “physically lunged” at one of the actor’s lawyers.
The odd fracas came in the midst of the defense’s cross-examination of Olabinjo Osundairo, who claims he was paid to help Smollett stage the hate crime, as attorney Tamara Walker grilled him about his alleged homophobia and past derogatory remarks toward suspected gay men.
Osundairo, 30, had just acknowledged he used the word “fruity ass” to refer to a man he suspected was gay and Walker asked if Smollett, who is openly gay, knew he’d said such things in the past.
CHICAGO — The man Jussie Smollett allegedly paid to help him stage a hate crime took the stand in the actor’s criminal trial Wednesday, describing how he took part in the hoax because he thought the ‘”Empire” star could help push his own acting career.
Abimbola Osundairo, 28, told jurors in Chicago’s criminal court on day three of the trial how Smollett directed nearly every aspect of the alleged fake attack, from the racial and homophobic slurs him and his brother, Olabinjo, were to use down to who should throw the punches.
CHICAGO (AP) — Two brothers arrested for an alleged attack on Jussie Smollett recounted for Chicago police how the ex-“Empire” actor orchestrated the hoax, telling them via text message to meet him “on the low,” paying for supplies and holding a “dry run” in downtown Chicago, the lead investigator testified Tuesday.
Defense attorney names ‘real victim’ in Jussie Smollett case as trial begins
Jussie Smollett’s defense attorney insisted that his client was the victim of a real attack as his trial opened in Chicago. Smollett could be sent to prison if found guilty of staging a fake hate crime.
Smollett’s attorney, Nenye Uche, rejected accusations that Smollett had masterminded a fake racist attack against himself in January 2019, claiming the actor was innocent and “a real victim” as the trial kicked off in Chicago, Illinois on Monday.
Uche argued that Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo – two Nigerian brothers who told Chicago Police they had been paid by Smollett to attack him – actually hated Smollett “because of who he is as a person” and were “sophisticated, highly intelligent criminals.”
After the election of Donald Trump, there was a rise in hate crime hoaxes. Note: I did not say hate crimes. The crimes supposedly committed by right-wing Trump-supporting thugs were actually hoaxes. We are all familiar with the attempted lynching of Brett Kavanaugh. Many of us were appalled at the attack on Nick Sandmann. In my opinion, though, the most egregious of the anti-Trump hate crimes was perpetrated by Jussie Smollet back in 2019.
A judge has denied Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s last ditch attempt to dismiss his criminal case for allegedly lying to police when he reported that he was the victim of a racist, anti-gay attack, and a date has been set for trial.
Smollett, 39, had told police that two masked men attacked him in downtown Chicago in January 2019, where he was filming Empire.
He was charged weeks later with filing a false police report, after investigators concluded that he staged the attack and paid two brothers to carry it out because he was unhappy about his salary and wanted to promote his career.
GEORGIA – […] Since last December, a Douglasville, Georgia neighborhood has been gripped in fear due to racially charged messages that have anonymously been left in the mailboxes of residents of color, reports Fox News. But now police said they have made an arrest and the alleged culprit is not who the neighbors expected.
The superintendent said the culprit’s race “does not diminish the hurt it caused.”
Ablack student at Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri, admitted to writing racist graffiti in a school bathroom, including a slur against black people, school district officials said Tuesday.
Students at multiple high schools in the St. Louis area walked out of class last week to protest the messages.
Anything to maintain perpetual victimhood.
