Jussie Smollett is convicted for lying about a hate crime against another man. And we walk down memory lane remembering our elite s response to the Smollet-Murder hoax. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a good thing, and why we should all pay attention to the Justice Millier case, which was handled poorly by the media, and the way it was handled by our elite. He also explains why Jussie should be grateful to live in a country where his attacker is going to jail. Use the promo code "ELISSA" for $10 off your first month, and you'll get 10% off your entire purchase when you sign up for ExpressVPN, the world's number 1 rated VPN service, which works on all devices, including your laptop, desktop, smartphone, and tablet. Use ExpressVPN to protect your data from prying eyes. You can get an extra 3 months for free when you upgrade to VIP membership, which gives you access to all of the features mentioned in this episode, including unlimited access to the show, unlimited storage, and unlimited credit for future purchases, as well as the ability to access the show and access all of Ben Shapiro's latest book recommendations, "The Best Thing Ever Happened in America." and more! Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get his work wherever he goes. He tweets at . or wherever he gets his work done. . He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, The Root, and The Huffington Post, and is a frequent contributor, and he also writes for Playboy, The Daily Beast, and Rolling Stone, and now has a new podcast, The Cutthroat, and so you can be a friend of his own, too. , and he s a regular on the podcast, too, you can connect with him on social media with Ben Shapiro, too? if you're listening to Ben Shapiro? , too, he's on Insta: , he's got it all, he also tweets about it? and he's also on Instapreneurs, on Instafeed, and more than that, he does it on Instacademy, he's cool, too good at it's awesome, too much of it's great, he doesn't say it, he really does it too good, he said so, he tweets it, too cool, he says it's that good, really good, and I'm not even better than that's good, right?
00:00:00.000Jussie Smollett is convicted for lying about Jussie Smollett paying Jussie Smollett's friends to fake a hate crime against Jussie Smollett.
00:00:11.000And we walk down memory lane remembering our elite's response to the Smollett race hoax.
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00:01:42.000When I say May, that's because he has not been sentenced yet.
00:01:45.000He faces up to 20 years in prison because he was convicted on five of the six counts brought against him.
00:01:49.000According to the New York Times, a jury in Chicago found the actor, Jussie Smollett, guilty on Thursday of falsely reporting to the police he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic assault in 2019.
00:01:59.000An attack, investigators concluded, was a hoax directed by the actor himself.
00:02:03.000With its finding, after more than nine hours of deliberation, the 12-person jury indicated it had chosen to believe the accounts of two brothers who testified that Mr. Smollett had asked them to mildly injure him as part of a publicity stunt.
00:02:15.000I love that the New York Times has to phrase it this way.
00:02:17.000The jury chose to believe that there was no evidence for any other account.
00:02:23.000Like, Jussie Smollett literally had no plausible account of anything that happened other than what actually was the truth.
00:02:30.000It wasn't just that the defense had no defense.
00:02:33.000It was that the defense's attempts at a defense were so laughably bad that there was no possible way for a rational human being to come to any other conclusion I mean, it's sad that they're going to be sharing a cell, but it's kind of the best thing that ever happened in the history of mankind.
00:02:46.000in a country, I think Jussie Smollett should be very glad to live in a country where his attacker is going to prison.
00:02:50.000I mean, it's sad that they're going to be sharing a cell, but it's kind of the best thing that ever happened in the history of mankind.
00:02:59.000According to the New York Times, Mr. Smollett, wearing a dark gray suit and a blue shirt, sat upright in his chair, hands clasped, staring directly at the jury just after the verdict Daniel Webb, the special prosecutor who handled the case, said afterward, Smollett only made matters worse by continuing to stand by his account at trial.
00:03:18.000Okay, so in a second, we're going to go through the entire history of the Justice Millier saga because it is so illuminating about what America's media life is right now, how the elites view the rest of the country, the massive disconnect between this little bubble of people who will believe any narrative that casts America in an evil, racist light, an actual reality, where people like Justice Millier in American society, celebrities who are double minorities
00:03:45.000because he's gay and black, they're not treated as outcasts in American society.
00:03:51.000And the fact is that Justice Millier was believed and cherished and treated as a victim because there are elites in our society who believe that everyone like Justice Millier is a victim and therefore should receive special benefit, should receive special treatment.
00:04:04.000And the reality, again, is very different when it comes to crime stories from what the media would have you believe.
00:04:10.000Wilford Riley, who's a college professor who writes for a commentary magazine, sometimes really, really great.
00:04:15.000Wilford Riley is a black commentator on race and crime.
00:04:19.000He says, you know, the media tried to say that the Jussie Smollett incident, as originally narrated by Jussie Smollett, was indicative of broader trends in American public life.
00:04:28.000He tweets out this morning, but there are real Jussie Smollett's, uh, bruh.
00:04:32.000Violence, interracial crime involving blacks and whites is about 3% of all serious crime.
00:04:36.000And of that 3%, about 80% is black on white.
00:05:06.000Maybe you'll say, okay, I'm not going to jump on this one.
00:05:08.000I'm just going to wait and see what evidence emerges.
00:05:10.000But our entire media infrastructure, our entire political infrastructure, went into overdrive to try and use the Sommelier incident as the tip of the evil American iceberg.
00:05:21.000And even now, the media are trying to buy this back.
00:05:24.000Even now, the media are trying to say, well, conservatives, this doesn't mean that your case is helped.
00:05:29.000Great piece today from Jahan Jones over at MSNBC, titled, What Conservatives Should Realize Before They Relish the Justice Millier Verdict.
00:05:42.000The actor, Jussie Smollett, has been found guilty of lying to police in 2019 when he claimed he was the victim of a racist homophobic attack in Chicago, bringing to a close one of the more bizarre high-profile celebrity cases in recent memory, says this columnist for MSNBC.
00:05:55.000Smollett told police in 2019 he had been assaulted by two masked white men who shouted pro-Trump slogans, poured a bleach-like substance on him, tied a rope around his neck.
00:06:03.000But two brothers, Abimbola and Olabingo Ucindero, testified that Smollett asked them to stage the attack.
00:06:11.000Abimbola Osindaro, who said he was friends with Smollett at the time, accused the actor of orchestrating the incident to draw media attention to actual hate mail he received in 2019.
00:06:18.000By the way, I have doubts about the actual hate mail in 2019, given the fact that JusticeMillier made it a massive issue.
00:06:25.000Why aren't people paying attention to this hate mail that I received that basically looks like I signed it?
00:06:29.000Olabinjo Asundera told prosecutors Smollett had this crazy idea of getting attacked by two Trump supporters so he could post it on social media.
00:06:35.000Smollett held throughout the trial the incident was not a hoax.
00:06:37.000Nonetheless, the strange, seemingly ever-changing details in the case have provided nearly three years worth of material for comedians and online commentators.
00:06:44.000Some of it has been quite funny, in fact, says this columnist for MSNBC.
00:06:47.000Even more comical, in my view, was the predictable conservative outrage over Smollett's allegation.
00:06:52.000Conservatives took to social media in 2019 to express outrage over the dropped charges.
00:06:57.000How dare someone make such a heinous claim about followers of their dear leader they screeched?
00:07:00.000Violent masked white guys who shout Trump slogans and use chemical agents to attack victims?
00:07:04.000Many on the right shamed those of us who knew such a claim was totally plausible.
00:07:08.000And then the January 6th insurrection happened.
00:07:15.000Or, alternatively, you are so unbelievably full of crap Okay, that is the alternative.
00:07:20.000The alternative is you guys are unbelievably full of crap.
00:07:22.000There's no defense to the fact that you fell for this because it was ridiculous from the outset.
00:07:27.000Oliver Darcy over at Brian Stelter's newsletter on CNN is also trying to play the game where conservatives are wrong for chortling over the outcome of this verdict.
00:07:36.000He says that it's really bad because this means that conservatives are going to use this in order to attack media credibility.
00:08:27.000So, Jussie Smollett was staying in Chicago, and he told CNN, okay, this is the way CNN reported this story, January 16th, 2020.
00:08:36.000Empire actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in the early morning hours on Tuesday, in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime.
00:08:44.000Smollett was attacked by two people who were yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim, police said.
00:08:51.000One of Smollett's alleged attackers also put a rope around his neck, according to police.
00:08:56.000Smollett took himself to Northwestern Hospital and is in good condition, authorities said.
00:09:01.000As of Tuesday evening, a Chicago police spokesperson told CNN that investigators canvassed the neighborhood.
00:09:06.000where the reported attack occurred and have found no still images or video from security cameras of the incident. The only image of Smollett police obtained from security cameras was inside a subway sandwich shop near the location of the reported crime. The actor was seen standing alone.
00:09:19.000Chicago police detectives continue to investigate the serious allegations according to the PD spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi. And this is the original report.
00:09:28.000Guglielmi said detective teams would broaden their search work around the clock to look for video on traffic cameras, buses and neighboring streets.
00:09:37.000Okay, so the way that that you see juicy Smollett narrated this crime, it was 2 a.m.
00:09:42.000in Chicago, in the middle of a polar vortex.
00:10:17.000Happily munching on his sandwich as he walks the streets of Chicago.
00:10:20.000And we're talking about, like, kind of the Tony area of Chicago.
00:10:23.000Yeah, this is like the bluest area of the blue areas of Chicago.
00:10:27.000He's walking the streets, 2 a.m., when suddenly, out of nowhere, he's attacked by two red-hatted, presumably MAGA-hatted, white, white men.
00:10:39.000And they shout at him that he is a F-word, N-word.
00:10:44.000F-word for gay person, N-word for black person.
00:11:41.000When he emerges from underneath the area where he is being attacked by these mad guy-headed, by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.
00:11:50.000After this happens, Jussie emerges with his Subway sandwich clutched.
00:11:54.000So first of all, I just gotta say, Subway is missing an unbelievable branding opportunity.
00:11:58.000Because if you are Subway, this guy loves Subway sandwiches so much that he is willing to not only fake a racial attack, But hold on to the sandwich during the racial attack, undermining his entire case, and eventually landing himself in prison, because he loves Subway that much.
00:12:42.000He's like, no, you can't see my phone.
00:12:45.000Of course, because he'd been texting the two guys that he actually, you know, hired.
00:12:50.000And by the way, Jussi is such an idiot.
00:12:53.000And when Jussi hired people to commit a crime against him, he did it by check.
00:12:57.000To commit a federal crime, he signed a... To commit a federal hate crime, he signed a check to make that happen for himself, which is just the best.
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00:14:38.000The actual minute-by-minute narrative we'll get to in a month.
00:14:41.000But first, you have to hear Juicy's account in his own words.
00:14:45.000So first of all, It does raise the question as to who the casting director was in Hollywood who thought that Jussie Smollett should ever have been cast in anything.
00:16:23.000Like, for example, when you're trying to punch yourself in the balls, you really should stop yourself from punching yourself in the balls by punching yourself in the balls.
00:17:21.000Angry is it the the attackers is it hackers, but it's also The attacks. Oh, it's like you know at first. It was a thing of like listen if I tell the truth then That's it cuz it's the truth Then it became a thing of like oh How can you doubt that?
00:19:06.000Um, I can't admit, you know, he, what was, he doesn't know what was going through, he knows exactly what was going through his attacker's head, as it turns out.
00:19:14.000He knows precisely, down to the nitty gritty, what was going on in the attacker's head.
00:19:30.000Now, pretty quickly, the narrative starts to fall apart.
00:19:33.000We'll get to the narrative falling apart in a second, but first you have to understand the overwhelming level of public support that Jussi immediately received from, like, the top people in America on the left.
00:19:47.000Nobody held back for more than- I mean, this is not a shock.
00:19:49.000The entire left also still claims that Michael Brown was murdered by a police officer in cold blood.
00:19:55.000The entire left still claims that Kyle Rittenhouse is a racist murderer.
00:19:58.000So it's not a shock that they all jumped on top of it, but this one was so obviously stupid that you would have thought that maybe if they had like a sense, like a smidgen of self-preservation, that they might wait like this long to see if some of the details didn't pan out.
00:20:42.000How dare you not be the first to rush to a microphone?
00:20:44.000It demonstrates your lack of fealty to the racial cause not to jump on this and to emote about it and to express your solidarity with GZ and hashtag justice for GZ.
00:20:55.000And so everybody rushed, because again, that's the incentive structure on the left.
00:21:00.000There is no incentive structure on the left to wait for the actual facts, or to put this, even if it had happened for a second, which of course it didn't, to put that in the context that Wilford Riley puts it in, statistically speaking, about race crime stats.
00:21:14.000Nobody would ever try to contextualize this in terms of, is this a national representation of what life is actually like in America for black men?
00:21:22.000Nobody would attempt to do that, because that would demonstrate lack of fealty to the cause.
00:21:26.000So, your incentive structure was, you needed to rush to a microphone, you needed to rush to Twitter, and you needed to sound off on how much you believed Juicy.
00:21:34.000And you had to beat your breast over it.
00:21:36.000You had to talk about how it was a deep problem in America.
00:21:38.000It was indicative of just how evil—and not only that, it was in the middle of the presidential race.
00:21:59.000But left him gripping in horror and rage that Subway sandwich with two little rank tuna fish.
00:22:08.000We'll get to more of this in just one second because I'm honestly the show needs to go on for like eight hours today.
00:22:13.000It's just we're gonna go from here to like the 2022 election just on this story because it's that good.
00:22:17.000We'll get to more on it in one second first.
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00:23:25.000The entire left world mobilized immediately.
00:23:28.000You had Joe Biden, who rushed to Twitter to tweet out, using two fingers, because that's how he'd do it.
00:23:36.000He tweeted out, What happened today to Jussie Smollett must never be tolerated in this country.
00:23:42.000We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor, that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts.
00:23:58.000Homophobia and racism had no place on our streets because the attacker of Juicy Sommelier is going to prison.
00:24:05.000Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, when she wasn't trying to bail out rioters in the middle of the BLM riots, that would be just a little while later.
00:26:15.000Bernie Sanders tweeted, the racist and homophobic attack on Jussie Spillette is a horrific instance of the surge in hostility to minorities around the country.
00:26:23.000We must come together to eradicate all forms of bigotry and violence.
00:26:26.000Here's the thing, the supply of racism and bigotry in America is so low, and the demand on the left is so high, that even a completely false, ridiculous on its face story like this had to be treated as gospel truth by the entire left, top to bottom, side to side.
00:26:43.000I mean, everyone, everyone, any expression of doubt was tantamount to a form of heresy.
00:26:50.000Pete Buttigieg tweeted out, while the struggle for basic hate crime legislation continues here in Indiana, this horrible attack calls all Americans to stand against hatred and violence in all of its forms.
00:27:02.000I'd finish this tweet, but I'm on paternity leave.
00:27:06.000And then of course there was Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:27:14.000She tweeted, this is a sickening and outrageous attack and horribly it's the latest of too many hate crimes against LGBTQ plus IAA backslash colon little squiggly ding tilde over the end that turns Nina into Nina in Spanish.
00:27:55.000And then the irrepressible The fresh, so fresh, so face, freshly met face head, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, representative from Twitch.
00:28:06.000She tweeted, There is a headline from Entertainment Today that said Jussie Smollett has been hospitalized in Chicago after a possible homophobic and racially charged attack.
00:28:16.000And she said, there is no such thing as racially charged.
00:28:19.000This attack was not possibly homophobic.
00:29:10.000Okay, and then of course you had the activist groups, you had Color of Change, which issued a statement at the time saying that the attack was a reminder of the real violence black LGBTQ people face every day.
00:29:18.000Well, it's not a reminder so much of the real violence that they face every day as a reminder of the fake violence that they face every day, because it turns out that he was lying and pretty obviously lying.
00:29:29.000GLAAD put out a statement at the time Saying, Jussie's experience is sadly not unique in today's America.
00:29:34.000Race hoaxes happen on a fairly regular basis in the United States right now because the incentive structure is very much in favor of race hoaxes.
00:31:21.000And then it'll all be like I was a hero.
00:31:24.000And then everybody was like, well, you know, when you do that, we pay really close attention.
00:31:27.000And he's like, well, then you get the Homer Simpson gif of him just like backing into a bush.
00:31:33.000Reverend Al Sharpton, who is always a plausible source when it comes to the veracity of interracial hate crimes.
00:31:41.000It's not like Al Sharpton, who still has a show on MSNBC, it's not like he actively propagated the lie that a Manhattan DA raped an underage black girl and then scrawled racial slurs on her in feces back in the 1980s.
00:32:28.000This is why the LGBTQ plus I-A-O-P, open bracket, closed bracket, backslash, double quotation mark, carrot, little weird thing above the option button.
00:32:39.000This is why that community continues to fight to be seen and protected against hate.
00:32:43.000We all have to take this racist and homophobic attack to violence very personally.
00:32:47.000My arms are around you, Jussie Smollett.
00:32:49.000Well, the good news for Jussie Smollett is that Jussie Smollett's arms were also around Jussie Smollett when Jussie Smollett was attacking Jussie Smollett in the middle of a hate crime against Jussie Smollett.
00:32:58.000Ellen's Generous tweeted about it, and I'm sending him and his family so much love today.
00:33:06.000Cher tweeted out, The best thing about Cher's Twitter account is that she's so clearly drunk when she writes these tweets.
00:33:13.000Like, the caps lock goes on, and you have to imagine when Cher tweets these things, that the caps lock button goes on, and she knows about halfway through the tweet that it's on, and she's like, ah!
00:34:05.000It's that sort of insight that makes you such a wondrous addition to America's political discourse.
00:34:12.000So, you had the entire political infrastructure that came to Jussie's defense.
00:34:16.000You had the entire entertainment infrastructure that came to Jussie's defense.
00:34:19.000You had prominent members of the media who were helping out.
00:34:22.000As it turns out, Don Lemon was texting with Jussie and telling Jussie that the police didn't believe him, which seems to be kind of a violation of journalistic ethics.
00:34:31.000He had places like GQ writing articles titled, And by the way, they didn't present it as an opinion piece.
00:34:42.000Originally, they presented it as just a journalistic piece.
00:34:45.000And later, they were like, oh yeah, it's an opinion piece.
00:34:46.000The editor's notes on this are pretty spectacular.
00:35:13.000But again, the entire piece is predicated on the idea that Jussie Smollett is representative of black men in America and gay men in America, and none of that is true.
00:35:35.000And he kind of fell out of prominence because the Obamas were no longer in office, and so him hanging out with Michelle Obama just wasn't the same.
00:35:42.000But I mean, this is a guy who literally went dancing with Michelle Obama, right?
00:35:46.000This is a person who was very political.
00:35:47.000I mean, here's some video of him dancing with Michelle Obama back in 2018.
00:35:53.000Here he was dancing with Michelle Obama one year before he faked a hate crime against himself.
00:35:57.000By the way, it didn't, it wasn't just that he danced with Michelle Obama.
00:36:08.000As it turns out, At the time, Tina Tchen's longtime friend was not surprised that the former Obama administration aide helped connect Jussie Smollett's family with a top Illinois prosecutor.
00:36:18.000Weeks before a grand jury indicted Smollett on the theory he falsely reported being the victim of a hate crime, relatives of the actor had expressed to Tina Tchen concerns about the investigation by Chicago PD.
00:36:27.000Getting the right person to take those sorts of concerns seriously has been a hallmark of Tina Tchen's career, highlighted by a stint as then-First Lady Michelle Obama's Chief of Staff.
00:36:37.000So, she reached out, Michelle Obama's Chief of Staff, to prosecutors to try and work on behalf of Jussie Smollett.
00:36:47.000Chen said her contact with Kim Foxx on behalf of Smollett's family was not intended to influence the case's outcome.
00:36:55.000Shortly after Smollett reported he was attacked as a family friend, I contacted Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, who I also know from prior work together, she said.
00:37:03.000My sole activity was to put the chief prosecutor in the case in touch with an alleged victim's family who had concerns about how the investigation was being characterized in public.
00:37:12.000So, um, that was how tied in Jussie Smollett was to the infrastructure here.
00:37:19.000Now, we have to go back to what exactly happened, what the timeline was, because honestly, it's just, it's a wonderful timeline.
00:37:25.000And then we'll get to the defense that Jussie tried to provide for his behavior.
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00:38:36.000Alrighty, before we go further, Down memory lane and actually examine what happened that night as the police began to investigate, because we have a full timeline.
00:38:45.000It's that glorious time of the week when I give a shout out to a Daily Wire member.
00:38:47.000Today, it's Justin Anderson on Instagram who sums up what many voters on the left are currently feeling.
00:38:52.000In the pic, Justin is sporting an American flag hat, clutching the world's greatest beverage vessel while out for an afternoon drive.
00:38:57.000The caption reads, Cruising the internet, relishing the left's despair as they cry sweet tears of embarrassment and humiliation after slowly realizing that the sweet old man they thought they voted for turned out to be the worst president in American history.
00:39:17.000Also, the Biden administration's unconstitutional vaccine mandate not doing well in court.
00:39:20.000Not only has the OSHA mandate received a nationwide stay, but the U.S.
00:39:24.000Senate voted 52 to 48 against Joe Biden's federal mandate.
00:39:28.000The issue now goes to the House, who are probably going to just uphold the vaccine mandate and then Biden can veto it anyway, which is why we can't leave a contentious issue up to the Biden administration.
00:39:37.000Instead, we've taken matters into our own hands, putting our own business at risk.
00:39:41.000We were the first in the nation to file suit against Joe Biden's authoritarian mandate.
00:39:46.000The onus is on us, the people, to try to fight back when they try to force our compliance.
00:39:51.000What we put in our bodies really should not be up to the government.
00:39:54.000Neither is how we spend our holidays, which Biden's winter COVID plan, he's hinting now that he kind of wants to shut down Christmas again.
00:40:00.000Anthony Fauci said that maybe we should actually put vax mandates on people before they fly domestically, which means that if you want to actually go see your members of your family, you either have to take a car or you have to vax if Anthony Fauci gets his way.
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00:41:48.000Alrighty, so now let's go through the actual timeline of what happened with Jesse because Okay, so, 1230 AM, as according to the Chicago Tribune, Smolier arrives at O'Hare International Airport on a flight from New York after a four-hour delay.
00:42:06.000At 1249 AM, Smolier, called Abimbola Usindaro, told him the attack would take place at 2 AM at the corner of New and North Water Streets, a predetermined location.
00:42:16.000Minutes later, That guy's brother, a Lubin Jew, ordered an Uber rideshare, which picks the brothers up at their Lakeview apartment and drops them in the 1400 block of North Well Street.
00:42:26.000They hailed a cab, which took them to within three blocks of the meeting site.
00:42:31.000until 2.03 a.m., surveillance videos show the Ucindero brothers on foot in an area bordered on the north by Illinois Street, south by the Chicago River, west to Columbus Drive, east to Lakeshore.
00:42:39.0001.30 a.m., Smollett arrived at his apartment.
00:42:43.0001.45, he left his apartment building to walk to a nearby Subway restaurant.
00:42:46.000Again, this is where the suspicious activity begins.
00:42:47.0002 a.m., the Ucindero brothers arrived at the intersection of New and North Water Streets, but Smollett was not there.
00:42:53.000They walked a quarter block north and waited near a bench.
00:42:56.000At 2.04 a.m., Smollett arrives, and the attack was staged just outside the view of a nearby surveillance camera.
00:43:01.000He would later claim that two white men approached him, shouted slurs at him, struck him in the face, and poured an unknown substance on him before one of them wrapped a rope around his neck.
00:43:10.000While the 45-second incident occurs, an employee of nearby NBC News Chicago observed it and later tells police she heard nothing.
00:43:16.000Smollett also said he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the attack.
00:43:21.000And then after the attack, there was video evidence showing the brothers running away.
00:43:26.000And then they got out of the taxi at their apartment and walked north.
00:43:30.000At 2.27 a.m., Smollett's business manager, Frank Gatson, called the cops from the actor's apartment.
00:43:35.000Surveillance camera footage shows the actor still had the rope around his neck when he returned to the building, which is definitely what you do.
00:43:39.000When someone tries to garret you, you just keep that hanging around.
00:43:54.000According to Chicago Police Spokesperson, Anthony Guglielmi, Smollett told them the attackers yelled he was in MEGA COUNTRY and then he went to the hospital.
00:44:06.000And then, 18 hours after the attack, he placed a 5 second call to one of the brothers.
00:44:11.000And then a little bit later, they placed a call back to Jussie Smollett.
00:44:17.000Okay, so that was the actual timeline of what happened.
00:44:20.000I think that it is, I think it is necessary for us to just remind ourselves of how absurd this whole thing was.
00:44:26.000Within days of all of this coming out, Jussie Smillier's attorneys claimed that the reason that Jussie was attacked by two black men, not two white men, and that Jussie reported that it was two white men, that the reason that this happened is because maybe, maybe the two Nigerian brothers were wearing whiteface.
00:44:55.000Well, you know, I mean, I think there's obviously you can disguise that, you could put makeup on.
00:45:00.000There is actually, interestingly enough, a video, you know, I think police did minimal investigation in this case.
00:45:05.000It was, it took me all of five minutes to Google, you know, I was looking up the brothers and one of the first videos that showed up actually was one of the brothers in white face doing a Joker monologue with white makeup on.
00:45:15.000And so it's not, it's not implausible.
00:45:17.000Uh, no, actually, it's super-duper-pooper-scooper-implausible.
00:45:22.000I love that we're so far down the America is racist rabbit hole that in order to prove America is racist, a black gay man had to fake an attack on himself by hiring two brothers from Nigeria and then have his lawyer claim on national television that it was two black people who dressed up as white people to attack him.
00:46:06.000They whined there should be a mistrial because the judge had snarled and lunged at them.
00:46:11.000The judge missed the opportunity to say, I only snarl when my bushwhawk detector goes off like a Geiger counter at Chernobyl, and I can't very well lunge when I'm sitting at this desk.
00:46:18.000The defense lawyers asked for a directed not guilty finding, which was so sweet it was like learning an eighth grader had written to Emily Ratajkowski with an earnest proposal of marriage.
00:46:27.000Smollett's publicist, called upon to testify by his side, noted that a celebrity whose earning potential depended on his face would not want to undergo any process that might significantly damage said face.
00:46:37.000Just so, cried America, because he didn't damage his face.
00:46:43.000As for Smollett's pals testifying against him, they produced a $3,500 check Juicy had written them as an advance payment, because the ringmaster of this flea circus was too dumb to understand that cash is the preferred payment method when doing stuff you don't want others to find out about.
00:46:56.000Lawyers tried to explain this was for nutritional tips.
00:47:00.000The supposed nutritional advisory siblings said no one had ever paid them more than $100 for such advice before.
00:47:07.000Also, they were texting each other beforehand, and they were using Uber, and yeah, it was just a genius move all the way through.
00:47:18.000Framing the attack as an episode of homophobia opens up more questions that Smollett can't answer.
00:47:22.000If the brothers were looking to attack a random gay person and had an irrepressible 2 a.m.
00:47:25.000urge to do so, why didn't they go to the gay neighborhood where one of them worked?
00:47:29.000Why are they hanging around over here?
00:47:31.000And the answer is because it was all bull.
00:48:00.000Elliot is still a woman, but now has had some surgeries and is a trans man.
00:48:05.000This is when Elliot was Ellen and trying to present as a woman.
00:48:12.000We have a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime.
00:48:19.000time this was Ellen Page. Okay, so this is Ellen Page who was with Stephen Colbert, both of them agreeing that to even doubt Jussie Smollett's story demonstrated that you didn't take seriously the problem of gay black Americans or some such.
00:48:30.000We have a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime. It's absurd. This s*** isn't a debate.
00:49:02.000Okay, wait 24 hours and see if any story they report bears elementary scrutiny.
00:49:07.000Because they'll report anything that backs their narrative, even a story as ridiculous as Juicy Smilies.
00:49:12.000And honestly, I'm just happy to be living in a country where people who conspire to commit an attack on a gay black man by other gay black men, hired by the original gay black man, where those people go to prison where they can share a cell with the gay black man because they're the same human.
00:49:28.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
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