Jussie Smollet receives a sentence, a fine, and a stern talking to
I would have liked to have seen a longer sentence, but at least he got one:
Embattled actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months probation on Thursday for falsely reporting to police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019.
“You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime,” Judge James Linn told Smollett while announcing the sentence…
The judge excoriated Smollett during Thursday’s sentencing, saying he fabricated the tale for the attention. Linn said the false claim hurt genuine victims of hate crimes and that Smollett tried to exploit the real past and current injustices in the U.S.
“You took some scabs off some healing wounds and you ripped them apart for one reason: You wanted to make yourself more famous,” Linn said. “And for a while, it worked. Everybody was talking about you…
Smollett was also ordered to pay around $120,100 in restitution to the city of Chicago and was fined $25,000, the maximum allowed.
Smollet, ever trying to gain victim status for himself, gave this response:
…repeating, “I am not suicidal!” He said he was innocent that “if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself,” referring to jail.
The Babylon Bee outdid itself with this: “Cruel: Jussie Smollett Will Be Forced To Share A Jail Cell With His Attacker”:
When asked for comment, Jussie Smollet angrily yelled “This is MAGA country!” before punching himself in the face.
ADDENDUM: Ace makes a good point about Smollet’s deception:
And again, it was a hate crime, not a hate crime hoax; it was a legitimate hate crime, in which he sought to direct hate and violence towards white people. The fact that he did so through deceptive, false-flag means does not mean it’s not a real hate crime.
He didn’t get sent to Joliet.
I’m ever the optimist here, but don’t you feel a change?
The Jussie Smolletts aren’t running so wild and free now. Sure, they never should have had such free rein before. But that time is waning.
We’re in new territory now.
What do you think your sentence would have been if you had pulled this stunt?
All those that supported him should be ashamed of themselves, but we know they won’t be but will still believe him.
This is a Edit: He still saying he didn’t do it. No remorse at all. He raised his fist in the Black Power salute. So, no I don’t think that he learned a thing.
The appropriate consequence for Smollett for falsely reporting to police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack would be to receive the exact same sentence that a perpetrator of a racist and homophobic attack would receive.
“I am not suicidal!” He said he was innocent that “if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself,” referring to jail.”
What a narcissist, to think anybody believes him worth killing.
The judge said,
“Your very name is a verb for lying,” Linn added later. “I can’t imagine anything worse than that.”
That would have been a big deal 50 years ago. But is it today?
Dwaz on March 11, 2022 at 12:22 am said:
“I am not suicidal!” He said he was innocent that “if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself,” referring to jail.”
What a narcissist, to think anybody believes him worth killing.
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Laughing Cow Harris might. They were in cahoots because, as a senator, she was proposing an anti-lynching bill right before he attacked himself. The timing of everything is incredibly suspicious.
Juicy tried to up his notoriety by staging the basis for a race war. He was inept. Then again he got a slap on the wrist from a Chicago politician. In Chicago, I’m surprised that he got even that. Scams and fraud are what the city is known for.
Surely Smollet should have gotten the sentence and punishment which the white dudes would have got if this had been a REAL hate crime. You think if two white MAGA hat-wearing guys had beaten up, thrown acid on and fake-lynched a black guy in Chicago, they would have been given 150 days in jail and 30 months on probation? If you do, I have some Florida beachfront to sell you.
If the kid had shut up, he would’ve got off with a mild talking to and a light sentence courtesy of Michelle Obama, IMO. What a loser.
Check out this link. https://cwbchicago.com/2022/03/kim-foxx-decries-a-kangaroo-prosecution-of-jussie-smollett-as-one-of-her-staff-members-begs-co-workers-to-please-stay-and-fight.html
“… I did not do it to myself…”
Um, actually….
…and if one might think that Jesse Smollet is tone-deaf…hey, that’s nuthin’…
“As Democrats celebrate first anniversary of $1.9T Biden stimulus bill, inflation hits 40-year high;
“Many economists believe the American Rescue Plan supercharged inflation.”—
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/democrats-celebrate-1-year-anniversary-biden-stimulus-bill-economists-say
OTOH, I think they got the “stimulus” part right. Sort of…. (They just don’t seem to want to understand what it is they’ve been stimulating….)
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And wouldn’t you know it… Here’s MORE stimulation! (Not that lawyers necessarily need to be stimulated, but…)
‘Fourteen attorneys general sue Biden administration over demand to investigate protesting parents;
‘“We just want the facts,” Indiana AG Rokita says. “Rather than cooperate, the Biden administration has sought to conceal and downplay its culpability. What are they hiding?”‘
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/ags-sue-biden-administration-over-dojs-call-investigate-protesting
“What are they hiding?” Oh Lord, should be “What aren’t they hiding?”….
If the kid had shut up, he would’ve got off with a mild talking to and a light sentence courtesy of Michelle Obama,
You mean Michelle Obama would call up a Cook County judge and try ex parte lobbying with him? Even in our own time, that would be quite audacious for anyone and might get you slapped with criminal charges.
That aside, where is there evidence that Michelle Obama enjoys pulling wires for people or is particularly concerned with the welfare (or, at least, the comfort and convenience) of anyone outside her family or her restricted circle of personal friends?
Someone who lies as blatantly and persistently as Smollet is beyond helping.
Not sure whether to catalog this thang in the “Pandemic (of Stupidity) Not Over” File or the “Could-Happen-To-Anyone” Dossier:
‘India Accidentally Fired Missile Into Pakistan “Due To Technical Malfunction”‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-accidentally-fired-missile-pakistan-due-technical-malfunction
Someone’s going to have to give India a “stern talking to”….
Kamala Harris unavailable for comment. I am happy that he has to cough up $145,000.
Art Deco @ 9:00am,
Umm, did you forget about Tina Tchen?
RickZ and Mike-SMO are precisely right.
The Dems, through Harris and Booker, were in cahoots with Smollett to foment a race war. Smollett is so incredibly inept that it failed, so they shifted the catalyst when a very poorly executed arrest in Minneapolis resulted in the death of a black man who had ingested a dangerous amount of narcotics.
Kamala Harris, January 29, 2019
I used to do service calls at Cook County. Parking sucks.
Weird thing is they would go through my tool bag. Screwdrivers, I had a hammer, files, all sorts of tools. Then theyed let me right in and I’d be feet from prisoners.
Also did a couple of calls at Joliet prison. Think Blues Brothers.
I spent 12 hours in jail once (possesion of pot)……in Chicago. But it was a brand new jail and had no issues. I can sit here and say its horrible, but that doesnt do it justice. You cant leave. Ever. I had 12 hours of it and hated it. In a week Jussie will have a new pal.
150 days isnt long, but its 150 days of being a dog.
Umm, did you forget about Tina Tchen?
What about her?
JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery.
That’s an actual Harris quote? I thought it was a joke at first.
Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.
Limbaugh remarked that if this dimbulb had not managed to find one of the few spots in Chicago invisible to surveillance cameras, the resulting footage would be run closed-loop, 24/7 and foment horrid violence.
TommyJay @ 10:57am,
Well, I got it from that right wing outlet of white supremacy, Newsweek, so it could be nazi propaganda.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-tweets-supporting-jussie-smollett-remain-jail-1687101
I thought his inability to show any remorse or responsibility should have resulted in a longer sentence. However, I thought he may not get any jail time at all, so I’m glad he got 150 days. A year would have been my call.
He’s a mouse studying to be a rat.
Rufus,
Well I did get a chuckle out of that. So much the better if it is an actual quote.
While I don’t pretend to draw anything substantive from that quote, it is amazing to me that when the Biden admin. has a serious problem to deal with, i.e. our southern border, or Ukraine; he sends Kamala. And when sent, she unfailingly beclowns herself.
Why send her, unless sending Joe would be even worse? And I am beginning to wonder how someone of her increasingly apparent caliber could ever pass a bar exam?
150 days is pure bovine excreta.
What would have been the sentence for the “two attackers”, had there actually been anyone “attacking” him?
THAT is the range under which a sentence like this needs to be considered. People who do hoaxes like this are worse than people who actually do things like the hoax implied.
Not only do they foment serious violence, smear the innocent, but they also disempower people who are actual victims of such behavior, leaving them far more open to being “Chicken Littles” and “Boys Who Cry ‘Wolf’!”
The punishment for such hoaxes should be serious, should be deep, and should be harsh. Not the defacto slap on the wrist Smollet has gotten.
>:-(
}}} In a week Jussie will have a new pal.
150 days isnt long, but its 150 days of being a dog.
Probably not — Remember his claim that he “isn’t suicidal”?
How much money on the idea that he fakes a suicide (i.e., attempts it with a deliberate and complete intent to fail), so that he can get special attention, claiming someone else tried to make it appear as a suicide?
You heard me say it, folks.
Like Kamala Harris, his ambition and thirst for celebrity got out in front of his intelligence, and that has a way of eventually blowing up in front of the cameras.
If this doesn’t qualify as a hate crime, what does? Too bad it wasn’t prosecuted as such.
Dave Chappelle, the black , anti-woke comedian in one of his comedy routines excoriates Smollet . He says that black folks always knew that Smollet was lying.
See here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZXoErL2124
I was surprised to read in the paper earlier this week that an anti-lynching bill was passed by Congress and sent to Biden to sign. Didn’t think this was a problem anymore, aside from the “high tech lynchings” of Clarence Thomas, George Zimmerman, Trump, Kavanaugh, Derek Chauvin, Nick Sandmann, Rittenhouse….
“Smollet, ever trying to gain victim status for himself, gave this response: ‘I am not suicidal!’”
Gawd, this is so predictable. According to my news feed he’s now in the jail psych ward as a suicide risk.
I thought it was strange when he shouted, “I am not suicidal!!” It appears this was his “plan” all along; use his same awful screenwriting and acting skills that got him convicted in the first place to convince the judge to let him out. I hope the judge does let him out, too. Just long enough to drag him into court so the judge can up his sentence to a year in Cook County.
“Plan” in scare quotes because in addition to the other skills he thinks he has but doesn’t, add this one. I won’t go through all the stupid mistakes he made out of hubris, but the most hilarious one was this; he still had his Subway sandwich.
Then he got on the stand, no doubt thinking he’s such an awesome actor he could fool the jury into believing his innocence despite the mountain of evidence against him. If I had been on that jury I would have been angry at him for insulting my intelligence. I checked before I wrote this. According to a juror who said from the moment they went into the jury room they had no major disagreements. They just didn’t find him credible. Got that? He’s such a lousy actor he couldn’t even act credible.
Now he’s pulling this stunt, still thinking he can put on such a convincing act the judge will have mercy and let him out early. He can’t act his way out of a wet paper bag, but he’s so full of himself he thinks he can act his way out of jail.