Guilty of A Fake Lynching Scheme

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Well done. A jury has convicted Jussie Smollett of five charges of felony disorderly conduct for lying to police and trying to pull off a fake hoax in 2019. Such a crazy story and lies he tried to pull off. Many ran to his side when this fake story happened nearly three years ago. Biden, Harris, Cory Booker, Al Sharpton, Buttigieg, and many more said this was a case of a "modern day lynching and hate". And "cannot be tolerated". Whatever! A prosecutor said Thursday's verdict was "a resounding message by the jury that Mr. Smollett did exactly what we said he did" — recruit two brothers to fake an attack so it could be recorded by a surveillance camera and posted on social media for publicity. Not only did Mr. Smollett lie to the police and wreak havoc here in the city for weeks on end for no reason whatsoever, but then he compounded the problem by lying under oath to a jury," special prosecutor Dan Webb said after Thursday's verdict. Smollett, who is Black and gay, maintained throughout the nearly three-year legal battle that he was attacked in downtown Chicago in January 2019 by people (he actually paid these people) who yelled racist and anti-gay slurs and put a noose around his neck. Two Nigerian brothers were paid to try to pull off this scheme. Olabingo Osundairo’s testimony echoed the account his brother, Abimbola Osundairo, gave on the witness stand a day earlier, including that Smollett wanted the brothers to douse him with gasoline and put a noose around his neck. They opted to pour bleach on Smollett, Osundairo said, because he wasn’t comfortable using gasoline. He said Smollett wanted his brother to do the punching, and that it should look like he fought back. The brothers testified that Smollett paid them $3,500 for the hoax and gave them lines to yell, including about "MAGA country," an apparent reference to then-President Trump’s "Make America Great Again" slogan. You cannot make this stuff up. Of course he probably will never go to prison but at least the truth came out.