Jussie Smollett and the brotherhood of the traveling MAGA… – Communities Digital News
WASHINGTON. Last week, a federal judge approved warrants allowing Special Prosecutor Dan Webb access to Empire actor Jussie Smolletts Google account with its photos, private messages, and location data. The probe seeks to discover if the actor/singer violated the law by claiming he was a victim of a vicious hate crime in January 2019.
Jussie Smollett speaks with ABCs Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. ABC screen capture.
You may recall the fake-news frenzy that followed Smolletts explosive charge that two MAGA-hatted thugs hurled racial and homophobic slurs his way, beat him, doused him in bleach, placed a rope around his neck, and ended the assault with the ultimate coup de gras: they yelled,
The Washington Posts Karen Attiah expressed her outrage.
California Rep. Maxine Waters added her own measured and thoughtful opinion to the mix during an interview with The Grio:
Fellow Empire star Lee Daniels posted an emotional video to Instagram, saying the outrage over the Smollett attack,
But there were aspects to Smolletts story that struck skeptical observers as odd.
Tyrus. Fox News screen capture.
Chicago police, unlike fake-news outlets, took Smolletts statement, followed the evidence, and smelled a rat. They reported Smollett paid two men, both from Nigeria, $3,500 to stage the attack. According to Chicagos CBS 2,
Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson. Fox News screen capture.
Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson later told reporters,
As if this story could not get any stranger, the Rev. Al Sharpton weighed in as well. During an episode of his MSNBC show Politics Nation, Sharpton said,
Tawana Brawley speaks to reporters as advisor Al Sharpton looks on. CBS News screen capture.
This from the man who was at the center of the racially-charged Tawana Brawley sexual-assault hoax of the late 1980s (HERE). But Sharpton, ever the race-baiting scoundrel, sought to hide behind President Trumps coattails.
According to Chicago police, no less than 20 murders and 134 sexual assaults saw their investigations impeded by the inquiry into Smolletts bogus, racially-charged claims. As Superintendent Johnson told reporters,
Judge Michael Toomins sanctioned warrants ordering Google to hand special prosecutor Dan Webb Smolletts digital footprint may force the actor, in the words of Rev. Al Sharpton, to face accountability to the maximum.
MAGA hat image from https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/.
Recently, CNN was forced to pay millions of dollars in punitive damages for recklessly accusing high-schooler Nickolas Sandmann of racism and physical intimidation.
Smolletts phantom attackers, like Sandmann, supposedly wore Make America Great Again hats. And Smollett instinctively knew the mere mention of MAGA hats would inspire fake-news outlets to begin manufacturing narratives to attack President Trump and his army of deplorables as violent racists.
What Trump asked of Jussie Smollett could just as easily be directed at fake-news scribblers:
I suspect the loud and clear answer will come election day, November 2020.
Top Images: Empire actor Jussie Smollett. CBS News screen capture.(Inset) Special Prosecutor Dan Webb. WGN News screen capture.
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