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Piers Morgan is spot on...

Shameful Smollett lynched the truth, betrayed every black and gay person in America, and proved Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very real and dangerous disease

‘I AM telling the truth!’ Jussie Smollett once tweeted, with the hashtag #TheMostCommonLies.

Oh the irony.

Today, Smollett is revealed to be the most hideous, reprehensible, disgusting, snivelling little liar in America.

How else to adequately describe a prominent black, gay celebrity actor who police say staged a racist, homophobic attack on HIMSELF?

A man who would pay two friends to pretend to jump him in the street at 2am in Chicago, scream ugly insults about his skin colour and sexuality, put a noose around his neck, and pour bleach on him?

A man who would claim his ‘attackers’ were red-capped supporters of President Trump, and shouted ‘This MAGA country’, referring to Trump’s campaign slogan ‘Making America Great Again?’

A man who would then go on national television to give an interview to ABC’s Robin Roberts in which he tearfully doubled down on every detail?

A man who soaked up valuable police time as 20 detectives were assigned to investigate what was billed as a despicable hate crime?

A man who, even as his story unravelled faster than Pinocchio’s nose grew the more lies he told, continued to protest his total innocence, continued to play the victim?

A man who did all this because according to Chicago Police, he wanted to jack up his salary on Empire?

No, I can’t think of any better way to describe a pathetic excuse for a man like Jussie Smollet, though I might add the words ‘sickening, shameful disgrace’ to the mix.

Or worse.

Everything about this story seemed implausible from the moment it first broke.

It’s why I very unusually held my Twitter tongue as so many others raced to assume Smollett’s story was true.

We were supposed to believe that these two vicious Trump-hating racist homophobes just happened to be wandering the freezing cold streets of Chicago at 2am, armed with bleach and a noose, and lucked out by finding Smollett walking home from Subway.

They then savagely attacked him, but apparently not so badly that Smollett wasn’t able to remember to take his sandwich home.

It’s usually the little details like that bit that trip up humongous liars.

In Smollett’s case, it was every detail.

His appalling crassness and duplicity was only matched by his spectacular stupidity.

For a start, who hires two black men to commit a fake racist attack on a black man?

At least use white guys, Jussie! Come on!

I suspected Smollett was lying the moment it emerged he had withheld his phone from the police.

No genuinely innocent victim would do that unless there was evidence on that phone that would contradict his story.

When Smollett finally gave up his phone records, they were heavily redacted – thus presumably removing all the stuff that would incriminate him.

But it was his appearance on Good Morning America that cemented my doubts.

Watch it back now he’s been arrested, and you’ll laugh out loud at the obvious acting.

‘I see the attacker, masked,’ he said, his face grimacing at the memory, tears welling in his eyes, ‘and he said, ‘This MAGA country (N-word). Punches me right in the face. So I punched his (expletive) back and then we started tussling.. by the stairs, fighting, fighting, fighting…’

So Smollett wasn’t just portraying himself as a victim now, he was a BRAVE, FEARLESS hero too!

This ‘attack’ was ticking every box for maximum virtue-signalling effect.

It’s the performance of Smollett’s career, playing the role he has craved for years: that of a persecuted black gay man ‘lynched’ by supporters of a man he despises more than any other human being: Donald Trump.

A casual look at Smollett’s Twitter feed reveals someone suffering from advanced Trump Derangement Syndrome, the condition that afflicts so many liberal celebrities these days.

He doesn’t just hate Trump; he loathes him with a visceral, terrible rage that has clearly addled his brain.

And the more he ranted about the President, the more ‘likes’ and ‘retweets’ he got from the PC-crazed ‘woke’ brigade who share Smollett’s demented attitude to all things Trump.

When Robin Roberts asked him for the motivation for the attack, Smollett said he guessed it was his vehement opposition to Trump. ‘I can only go off the their words,’ he said softly, revealing he gets ‘threatened all the time’ on social media.

He added that he is ‘sometimes maybe too outspoken…but it’s who I am.’

Awww, our fearless hero again!

Smollett also revealed that he received a hate letter a week before the assault that he believed was directly linked to it:

‘On the letter, it had a stick figure hanging from a tree with a gun pointing to it with the words, “Smollett, Jussie, you will die.”’ He added that the return address was “MAGA”.

Now we know Smollett sent himself that letter, to the Empire studios, and was apparently disappointed it didn’t get more reaction.

He wanted the attention, the headlines, the bright media light to shine on his head.

He wanted to be the poster boy black gay Trump victim.

So when the letter didn’t do the trick, Smollett decided to up the ante with his staged attack, using two Nigerian friends to do it.

‘That’ll do it,’ he presumably thought.

And for a while, it did.

He became an instant superstar victim, his face splashed across every newspaper and TV news bulletin in the country, and around the world.

Jussie Smollet was a global phenomenon – the gay, black actor who got lynched by Trump fans.

Nobody dared to doubt him.

Democrat presidential candidates fell over themselves trying to milk his horror story for their own political gain.

‘Jussie Smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I am praying for his recovery.’ said Kamala Harris. ‘This was an attempted modern day lynching.’

Cory Booker agreed, using suspiciously similar language: ‘The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching. I’m glad he’s safe. To those in Congress who don’t feel the urgency to pass our Anti-lynching bill designating lynching as a federal hate crime, I urge you to pay attention.’

Hmmm, if only Mr Booker had paid more attention himself, he might have smelled the gigantic fork-tongued rat lurking at the heart of Smollett’s bullsh*t story.

Rising left-wing star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was enraged anyone was even framing the attack as an alleged crime: ‘This attack was not ‘possibly homophobic’, she seethed, ‘it was a racist and homophobic attack.’

But it wasn’t, was it Alexandria? As so often, you let your fast, furious mouth run away with you to the detriment of cold, hard, facts.

Smollett’s fellow liberal celebrities, led as always by the likes of professional Trump-basher Alyssa Milano, were even more emphatic, queuing up to express their outrage, offer their poor friend their love and support, and bemoan what’s happened to their country under Devil Donald.

Damningly, many in the mainstream media – as so often since Trump became President - also lost their minds, abandoning any pretense at journalistic objectivity or qualification and just running with this perfect anti-Trump story on the say-so of an unhinged actor trying to pump up his brand.

Now, following his dramatic arrest for making a false police report, they’ve all gone very, very quiet as the real horror of this Jussie Smollett story sinks in: he made it all up.

And by doing so, Smollett hasn’t just betrayed his famous supporters and made them look stupid.

He has betrayed every black and gay person in America, especially those who may become genuine victims of racial or homophobic attacks in the future, and will now be viewed with more suspicion.

He’s also wasted huge amounts of Chicago police man-hours when they should have been out working on real crimes.

And by making this all about Trump, Smollett has betrayed his country too by tipping rocket fuel onto the already bitterly divided and polarised politically partisan state it currently exists in.

The ultimate irony is that Jussie Smollett perpetrated this sick hoax to get a pay rise, and will now pay for it with his career, reputation and quite possibly his liberty.

He deserves no mercy and no sympathy. Just our fury.

In the end, the only lynching that went on here was to the truth.

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
Piers Morgan is spot on...

Shameful Smollett lynched the truth, betrayed every black and gay person in America, and proved Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very real and dangerous disease

‘I AM telling the truth!’ Jussie Smollett once tweeted, with the hashtag #TheMostCommonLies.

Oh the irony.

Today, Smollett is revealed to be the most hideous, reprehensible, disgusting, snivelling little liar in America.

How else to adequately describe a prominent black, gay celebrity actor who police say staged a racist, homophobic attack on HIMSELF?

A man who would pay two friends to pretend to jump him in the street at 2am in Chicago, scream ugly insults about his skin colour and sexuality, put a noose around his neck, and pour bleach on him?

A man who would claim his ‘attackers’ were red-capped supporters of President Trump, and shouted ‘This MAGA country’, referring to Trump’s campaign slogan ‘Making America Great Again?’

A man who would then go on national television to give an interview to ABC’s Robin Roberts in which he tearfully doubled down on every detail?

A man who soaked up valuable police time as 20 detectives were assigned to investigate what was billed as a despicable hate crime?

A man who, even as his story unravelled faster than Pinocchio’s nose grew the more lies he told, continued to protest his total innocence, continued to play the victim?

A man who did all this because according to Chicago Police, he wanted to jack up his salary on Empire?

No, I can’t think of any better way to describe a pathetic excuse for a man like Jussie Smollet, though I might add the words ‘sickening, shameful disgrace’ to the mix.

Or worse.

Everything about this story seemed implausible from the moment it first broke.

It’s why I very unusually held my Twitter tongue as so many others raced to assume Smollett’s story was true.

We were supposed to believe that these two vicious Trump-hating racist homophobes just happened to be wandering the freezing cold streets of Chicago at 2am, armed with bleach and a noose, and lucked out by finding Smollett walking home from Subway.

They then savagely attacked him, but apparently not so badly that Smollett wasn’t able to remember to take his sandwich home.

It’s usually the little details like that bit that trip up humongous liars.

In Smollett’s case, it was every detail.

His appalling crassness and duplicity was only matched by his spectacular stupidity.

For a start, who hires two black men to commit a fake racist attack on a black man?

At least use white guys, Jussie! Come on!

I suspected Smollett was lying the moment it emerged he had withheld his phone from the police.

No genuinely innocent victim would do that unless there was evidence on that phone that would contradict his story.

When Smollett finally gave up his phone records, they were heavily redacted – thus presumably removing all the stuff that would incriminate him.

But it was his appearance on Good Morning America that cemented my doubts.

Watch it back now he’s been arrested, and you’ll laugh out loud at the obvious acting.

‘I see the attacker, masked,’ he said, his face grimacing at the memory, tears welling in his eyes, ‘and he said, ‘This MAGA country (N-word). Punches me right in the face. So I punched his (expletive) back and then we started tussling.. by the stairs, fighting, fighting, fighting…’

So Smollett wasn’t just portraying himself as a victim now, he was a BRAVE, FEARLESS hero too!

This ‘attack’ was ticking every box for maximum virtue-signalling effect.

It’s the performance of Smollett’s career, playing the role he has craved for years: that of a persecuted black gay man ‘lynched’ by supporters of a man he despises more than any other human being: Donald Trump.

A casual look at Smollett’s Twitter feed reveals someone suffering from advanced Trump Derangement Syndrome, the condition that afflicts so many liberal celebrities these days.

He doesn’t just hate Trump; he loathes him with a visceral, terrible rage that has clearly addled his brain.

And the more he ranted about the President, the more ‘likes’ and ‘retweets’ he got from the PC-crazed ‘woke’ brigade who share Smollett’s demented attitude to all things Trump.

When Robin Roberts asked him for the motivation for the attack, Smollett said he guessed it was his vehement opposition to Trump. ‘I can only go off the their words,’ he said softly, revealing he gets ‘threatened all the time’ on social media.

He added that he is ‘sometimes maybe too outspoken…but it’s who I am.’

Awww, our fearless hero again!

Smollett also revealed that he received a hate letter a week before the assault that he believed was directly linked to it:

‘On the letter, it had a stick figure hanging from a tree with a gun pointing to it with the words, “Smollett, Jussie, you will die.”’ He added that the return address was “MAGA”.

Now we know Smollett sent himself that letter, to the Empire studios, and was apparently disappointed it didn’t get more reaction.

He wanted the attention, the headlines, the bright media light to shine on his head.

He wanted to be the poster boy black gay Trump victim.

So when the letter didn’t do the trick, Smollett decided to up the ante with his staged attack, using two Nigerian friends to do it.

‘That’ll do it,’ he presumably thought.

And for a while, it did.

He became an instant superstar victim, his face splashed across every newspaper and TV news bulletin in the country, and around the world.

Jussie Smollet was a global phenomenon – the gay, black actor who got lynched by Trump fans.

Nobody dared to doubt him.

Democrat presidential candidates fell over themselves trying to milk his horror story for their own political gain.

‘Jussie Smollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I am praying for his recovery.’ said Kamala Harris. ‘This was an attempted modern day lynching.’

Cory Booker agreed, using suspiciously similar language: ‘The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching. I’m glad he’s safe. To those in Congress who don’t feel the urgency to pass our Anti-lynching bill designating lynching as a federal hate crime, I urge you to pay attention.’

Hmmm, if only Mr Booker had paid more attention himself, he might have smelled the gigantic fork-tongued rat lurking at the heart of Smollett’s bullsh*t story.

Rising left-wing star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was enraged anyone was even framing the attack as an alleged crime: ‘This attack was not ‘possibly homophobic’, she seethed, ‘it was a racist and homophobic attack.’

But it wasn’t, was it Alexandria? As so often, you let your fast, furious mouth run away with you to the detriment of cold, hard, facts.

Smollett’s fellow liberal celebrities, led as always by the likes of professional Trump-basher Alyssa Milano, were even more emphatic, queuing up to express their outrage, offer their poor friend their love and support, and bemoan what’s happened to their country under Devil Donald.

Damningly, many in the mainstream media – as so often since Trump became President - also lost their minds, abandoning any pretense at journalistic objectivity or qualification and just running with this perfect anti-Trump story on the say-so of an unhinged actor trying to pump up his brand.

Now, following his dramatic arrest for making a false police report, they’ve all gone very, very quiet as the real horror of this Jussie Smollett story sinks in: he made it all up.

And by doing so, Smollett hasn’t just betrayed his famous supporters and made them look stupid.

He has betrayed every black and gay person in America, especially those who may become genuine victims of racial or homophobic attacks in the future, and will now be viewed with more suspicion.

He’s also wasted huge amounts of Chicago police man-hours when they should have been out working on real crimes.

And by making this all about Trump, Smollett has betrayed his country too by tipping rocket fuel onto the already bitterly divided and polarised politically partisan state it currently exists in.

The ultimate irony is that Jussie Smollett perpetrated this sick hoax to get a pay rise, and will now pay for it with his career, reputation and quite possibly his liberty.

He deserves no mercy and no sympathy. Just our fury.

In the end, the only lynching that went on here was to the truth.

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I wish I could give this a dozen awesome reactions..
instead in regard to his job at empire I have two words from the man he hates! A man he tried to put into the mix of shame.
Take it away Mr. president!
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Jussie Smollett is given $100k bail as he is supported by his family at a bond hearing as prosecutor details texts and video evidence and reveal he'd previously bought DRUGS from the brothers he paid to attack him

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  • The actor's siblings, Jurnee, Jocqui, Jake, and Jojo were pictured arriving at the Cook County Criminal Court before his bond hearing on Thursday afternoon
  • A judge set Smollett's bond at $100,000, which he will have to pay a portion of, and told him to give up his passport
  • Prosecutors shared an extremely detailed timeline of the night of the attack and the days beforehand
  • Smollett sent himself a threatening, racist and homophobic letter on January 22 to get more money from 20th Century Fox, police said Thursday
  • When that did not work, he hired brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo to attack him on January 25
  • On January 27, he took them to the exact location where he wanted it to happen and pointed out surveillance cameras nearby
  • Smollett claimed his attackers called him a 'f****t' and *n****r' and that they shouted 'This is MAGA country!'
  • Police issued dozens of search warrants and scoured hundreds of hours of surveillance footage which led them to the brothers
  • They tracked them down through their use of a ride-share on the night of the attack
  • Smollett was in contact with them an hour before the incident and an hour afterwards and when they were in Nigeria, laying low for two weeks
  • When they returned on February 13, they were picked up by police and later confessed 'the entire plot'
  • Smollett is in custody on felony charges of filing a false police report
  • Police say he gave himself the scratches on his face that were visible in a hospital bed selfie after he had reported it the police
  • They say Smollett paid the brothers with a personal check for $3,500

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
Jussie Smollett is given $100k bail as he is supported by his family at a bond hearing as prosecutor details texts and video evidence and reveal he'd previously bought DRUGS from the brothers he paid to attack him

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  • The actor's siblings, Jurnee, Jocqui, Jake, and Jojo were pictured arriving at the Cook County Criminal Court before his bond hearing on Thursday afternoon
  • A judge set Smollett's bond at $100,000, which he will have to pay a portion of, and told him to give up his passport
  • Prosecutors shared an extremely detailed timeline of the night of the attack and the days beforehand
  • Smollett sent himself a threatening, racist and homophobic letter on January 22 to get more money from 20th Century Fox, police said Thursday
  • When that did not work, he hired brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo to attack him on January 25
  • On January 27, he took them to the exact location where he wanted it to happen and pointed out surveillance cameras nearby
  • Smollett claimed his attackers called him a 'f****t' and *n****r' and that they shouted 'This is MAGA country!'
  • Police issued dozens of search warrants and scoured hundreds of hours of surveillance footage which led them to the brothers
  • They tracked them down through their use of a ride-share on the night of the attack
  • Smollett was in contact with them an hour before the incident and an hour afterwards and when they were in Nigeria, laying low for two weeks
  • When they returned on February 13, they were picked up by police and later confessed 'the entire plot'
  • Smollett is in custody on felony charges of filing a false police report
  • Police say he gave himself the scratches on his face that were visible in a hospital bed selfie after he had reported it the police
  • They say Smollett paid the brothers with a personal check for $3,500

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stick the fork in him. he is done..
 

nivek

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Jussie can sleep safe tonight since his attacker was arrested today...:Whistle::laugh8::tongue8:

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tall, thin, irritable
Al Sharpton, on the sidelines of a meeting with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, said Thursday that “Empire” star Jussie Smollett should face "accountability to the maximum" if the actor indeed staged an attack last month initially described as a hate crime.

“Whoever is wrong should pay the maximum. If Smollett is wrong, he ought to face accountability to the maximum,the cable news host and activist told a throng of reporters on Thursday, after lunching with Sen. Harris at Sylvia’s, a landmark restaurant in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood.

Arrrrrrgh !!!!!

Yeah right. Ain't that the pot calling the kettle black. Steven Pagones would agree without doubt. Anybody remember Tawana Brawley? I was was here for all of it and remember the shitstorm Rev.Al and his track suit with the golden coffee saucer medallion caused along with his two accomplices. Three if you count Tawana. And yet somehow that piece of s**t is a talking head and minor celebrity. Teflon.

Tawana Brawley rape allegations - Wikipedia
 

nivek

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Empire is in chaos...

Arguments erupt on Empire set after Jussie Smollett's arrest as 'furious' cast members call for him to be FIRED and Gabby Sidibe deletes supportive Instagram post while others stand by him and insist he is innocent
  • Some of Smollett's cast mates are 'f*****g furious' and want him to quit or be fired
  • They say he does not deserve a place on the show after allegedly lying to the world
  • Others are standing by him and believe his claim that he is innocent
  • Gabby Sidibe, one of Smollett's closest friends, deleted her supportive Instagram post on Thursday night
  • A day earlier, she had written: 'I know him, I believe him, I stand with him'
  • Prosecutors say they have a mountain of evidence which proves it was a hoax
  • Smollett's legal team has condemned their handling of the case and the police investigation into it
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nivek

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I moved the Kraft posts to a new thread here:

Orchids Spa Case

That topic should have it's own thread...

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nivek

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ISIS’s last march: Truckloads of the final fighters and their jihadi brides – carrying designer knockoff bags – line up to leave terrorists’ last frontline after US-coalition airstrikes prompt their surrender



Some 300 IS militants, along with hundreds of civilians believed to be mostly their families, were seen leaving the militants' last patch of territory in the remote village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border. Men suspected of being Islamic State fighters were searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving the group's last holdout (pictured). At least 36 trucks and two buses were seen leaving the area through a humanitarian corridor. They were escorted by gun-mounted trucks belonging to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. As the convoy passed, automatic machine gun fire could be heard in the distance and coalition aircraft flew overhead.

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Police used hidden cameras to 'catch Robert Kraft paying twice for sex' and filmed 1,500 men visiting the Florida massage parlor during six months of surveillance



New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was allegedly caught soliciting prostitutes at a Florida massage parlor through the use of hidden cameras, authorities say. Jupiter Police say they surveilled the Orchids of Asia Day Spa for seven months as part of a sting operation, watching on as more than 1,500 men frequented the premises for sexual purposes. Evidence of the sordid on-goings was gathered through the use of body cams, and hidden cameras placed both inside and outside the Spa.

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nivek

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Police chief in charge of Jussie Smollett investigation says there is MORE proof he staged attack as the image of the backdated, $3,500 check he paid Nigerian brothers 'to beat him' emerges

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Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson appeared on Good Morning America on Monday to defend the Chicago Police Department's investigation into the attack and double down on his condemnation of Smollett. He batted away the Empire actor's claim that a check for the brothers he allegedly paid to attack him was for personal training and said there was surveillance footage. physical evidence and testimony that proves it was a hoax which is yet to be presented. 'He still has the presumption of evidence and he'll get his opportunity in court if he chooses to go that route,' Johnson said, rejecting Smollett's lawyers claim that he has been unfairly vilified by the police department and prosecutor's office.

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