Ep. 853 - The Jussie Smollett Saga Reaches Its Conclusion
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Summary
As the Jussie Smollett trial reaches its dramatic conclusion, we ll take a look back at this whole bizarre story and figure out what we might learn from it. Also, Bill de Blasio defends his new dystopian COVID measures, on the basis that if New Yorkers submit to this one last infringement on their liberty, COVID will be gone forever. And the trial of Kim Potter, the officer who shot Dante Wright, begins this week.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, the Jussie Smollett trial has reached its dramatic conclusion.
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Today we'll take a look back at this whole bizarre story and figure out what we might learn from it.
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Also, Bill de Blasio defends his new dystopian COVID measures on the basis that if New Yorkers submit to this one last infringement on their liberty, COVID will be gone forever, he says.
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And the trial of Kim Potter, the officer who shot Dante Wright, begins this week.
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Wright has been made into another martyr of the BLM cause, but we'll look at the real man and his brutal and violent history.
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You haven't heard some of this before. It's pretty shocking.
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And Dallas police brag about taking $1,000, rather $100,000 from someone who did not commit any crime at all.
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They just confiscated the money and that was it.
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It's called civil asset forfeiture and it's the subject of our cancellation today.
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All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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As the Jesse Smollett trial comes to a close today, a spectacle that tragically was not filmed for our amusement,
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it might be worthwhile to step back and consider what we might learn from this bizarre circus freak show.
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To do that, we should start at the beginning, all the way back to the freezing night in Chicago in January of 2019,
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back in more innocent times when the only people wearing masks in Chicago were criminals.
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Still, a lot of them are criminals, but there's also people who aren't.
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It was also a time, according to Smollett, when a man might decide to walk out of his apartment at 2 a.m.
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through the pitch black and the frigid air to purchase a Subway sandwich.
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On the way back from this peculiar journey, Smollett says that he was assaulted by two white men.
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Well, he initially said white men, and then he said that they weren't white but pale.
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Turns out they were Nigerian, neither white nor pale.
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And that these pale white Trump-supporting Nigerians noticed him in the dark and pinned him as the guy from Empire,
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Infamously, they shouted, this is MAGA country, and began assaulting him while screaming racial slurs.
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But the assault lasted 30 seconds and left no injuries except for a gentle bruise on his cheek.
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And at some point during this attack, a rope was placed around his neck and bleach was poured on his clothes
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because the Trump-supporting white Nigerians were hanging around outside at night in January in Chicago
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with a random bottle of bleach and a noose just in case an actor from Empire happened to be making a run to Subway for a tuna sandwich.
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Smollett called the police, not right away, but sometime later, when he was back at his apartment.
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We never found out if he ate the tuna sandwich or not.
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This story was, of course, obviously fake from the start.
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Occam's razor would have us select the explanation, which requires the fewest assumptions.
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With the Smollett story, there were two explanations.
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One is that he was telling the truth, and the other that he was lying.
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The truth explanation requires the assumption that racist MAGA Trumpsters live in Chicago,
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and they hang out on street corners at 2 a.m., and they have bleach on standby just in case,
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and they would recognize an actor from a show they certainly don't watch, and so on.
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The lying explanation requires just one assumption, which isn't really an assumption so much as a very reasonable conclusion.
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Is it more likely that all of those implausible scenarios converged, or that Jussie Smollett simply told a lie?
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Logic and common sense would seem to guide you to the latter conclusion.
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And yet, we can't forget that the entire corporate media, that entire organism, rallied around Smollett, as did the entire Democrat Party.
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Were they stupid enough to be fooled by the most far-fetched race hoax of the century?
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I think the leftists in the peanut gallery, you know, really, really might have been.
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They have to keep in mind that, as I've said recently, we live in a curated reality.
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And if you rely on them for your information, and even if you don't consciously rely on them,
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still, your impression of the world and your access to it is mediated by this entity,
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which will only show you pieces that fit within a certain narrative framework.
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The effect is that many Americans live in a world, or think they live in a world,
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where it is actually not implausible that a Hollywood celebrity might be assaulted by a roving gang of white supremacist Trump supporters
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who are lying in wait on the streets of Chicago with a bottle of bleach and a noose at 2 a.m.
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They have bought into their curated reality, their matrix, to such an extent that this totally ridiculous fable
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seems not only plausible, but damn near commonplace.
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To them, they probably think this kind of thing happens all the time.
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Now, for the curators themselves, the media Democrats like Kamala Harris and so on,
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I mean, they have to have a grasp on the fuller picture of reality
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if they're going to decide which pieces of it to exclude from the picture they present to you in the public.
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So they knew that Smollett was full of it, but his story was politically convenient and it was good for ratings.
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which is how most actual conspiracies work in the real world.
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Joseph Smollett didn't have to meet with Kamala Harris and the heads of all the major corporate media outlets
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Instead, he just kind of winks to them and they all understand
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and they set out to spread this tale far and wide for mutually beneficial reasons.
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What nobody expected, and what I didn't expect either,
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is that the police and the prosecutor in Chicago would decline to participate in this choreographed production.
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Usually with these hoaxes, local authorities will pretend to hunt for the imaginary racist hate crimer
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and when the search comes up empty, because the person they're searching for doesn't exist,
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That's exactly what happened in Madison, Wisconsin,
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when a woman claimed that she was assaulted and set on fire by a group of white supremacists
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And her story somehow managed to be even less plausible than Smollett's
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because she was at an intersection in the middle of a city with security cameras all around
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and they can look at the security cameras and say, like, this never happened.
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They pretended to search for the invisible assailants
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and waited until everybody stopped watching them
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and then they quietly closed down the investigation and moved on.
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No charges were filed against the hoaxer in that case.
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He was also pressing his luck quite a bit by attacking the police
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for not finding the people, the attackers, that he knew didn't exist.
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And I think when he did that, maybe that's when even, you know,
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a liberal prosecutor has to say enough is enough.
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where yesterday he made the radically stupid decision
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It might have been a desperation move by his defense team,
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realizing that they have literally no defense to offer.
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Or it may have been a decision entirely made by the actor himself
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Whatever the case, he sat in the hot seat for two days,
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throwing out a whole deck full of victim cards,
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calling upon all of his training as a thespian,
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and trying to bury the case under irrelevant and pretty gross details
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about bathhouses and drug use and masturbation.
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aside from the glaring absurdity of the hoax that he perpetrated,
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is that his accomplices, the Nigerian Asendario brothers,
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have long since admitted that he paid them to beat him up
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They even have the check he gave them for their hate crime services.
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That puts Smollett in the position of having to provide some reason
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why his friends, one of whom he said he had a sexual relationship with,
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would hide out on a street corner and beat him up
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His theory that he's given is that maybe they wanted him
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Even though he was already paying them money for other services,
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he'd say, well, maybe they wanted to be a bodyguard,
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I guess it's kind of like your mechanic cutting your brake lines
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so that you'll come back for more repairs in the very near future.
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but the real point Smollett was trying to make on the stand
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and the reason he took the stand to begin with,
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and putting an end to this spectacle before it began,
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I mean, he could have taken a plea deal at any point
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even if he wasn't a victim of a hate crime that night.
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Smollett knows that his identity affords him privileges.
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when asked why he sent Instagram private messages
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to Abel Asandario in the hours before the attack,
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with prosecutors suggesting that he was filling him in
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on the fact that his flight from New York to Chicago
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but he actually, he flew from New York to Chicago
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to have this fake hate crime perpetrated against him.
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In the messages, Smollett repeatedly used the N-word,
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not to say the N-word while reading the text out loud
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Yeah, it's been used a lot because you used it,
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So the prosecutor read Smollett's text messages
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but Smollett scolded him for reading his own words.
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is such that he has permitted access to certain language
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almost always from people who look like Smollett
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What exact damage is done by hearing it in this context?
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The word is given, you know, this mystical power.
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It's the only word in existence in any language
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I mean, Smollett was a man drunk on his own privilege
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