When Jussie Smollett’s fate was turned over to a jury’s hands on Wednesday, you’d have to look pretty hard to find a big name in his corner.
After all, as special prosecutor Dan Webb told the jury in his closing arguments, there was “overwhelming evidence” the actor concocted a hate-crime hoax in January of 2019 — a hoax that sent Chicago police on a wild goose chase that caused them to expend significant resources in an attempt to catch pro-Trump racist thugs who didn’t actually exist.
Here at The Western Journal, we were on top of the Smollett story from the beginning, calling foul when establishment media was taking his story at face value. We’ll keep on providing this critical commentary even when mainstream outlets refuse to — and you can help our fight by subscribing.
Webb’s closing argument was dead on.
“Besides being against the law, it is just plain wrong to outright denigrate something as serious as a real hate crime and then make sure it involved words and symbols that have such historical significance in our country,” Webb told the jury, according to The Associated Press.
As for Hollywood and liberal politicos, few, if any, were still lending visible support to Smollett, who could face up to three years in prison if he’s convicted. If you look far back enough, however, you can find vocal backing for the actor from the man who is now our country’s president.
On Jan. 29, 2019 — the same day the “attack” against Smollett took place — Biden, who was then running an undeclared campaign for the presidency, talked in a Twitter post about the “hate” that led to the supposed incident and said we couldn’t afford to give it “safe harbor.” Two years and 11 months later, that tweet remains up.
What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country. We 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. We are with you, Jussie. https://t.co/o8ilPu68CM
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 30, 2019
“What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country,” Biden wrote in a quote-tweet of a New York Times article.
“We 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. We are with you, Jussie.”
Biden wasn’t was the only politician who uncritically supported Smollett, an openly gay, black man, in the wake of the events of Jan. 29, 2019. Now-Vice President Kamala Harris, for instance, called it “an attempted modern day lynching” — an even more incendiary conclusion about Smollett’s uncorroborated, dubious-sounding allegations than Biden’s amorphous “hate.”
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