What if Jussie is telling the truth?
His brother wrote an article under that title on the BET website.
https://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2019/04/20/jojo-smollet.html
What if Trump isn't a racist? What if nobody from Trump's election campaign colluded with Russians to sway the election his way? What if socialism and communism are great in theory only, while in practice are killers of the human spirit and utterly disastrous? What if the social ills of black Americans derive primarily from cultural issues that only they themselves can solve? What if the majority of asylum seekers from Central America and Mexico are really just economic migrants looking to game the system? What if it was really Hillary Clinton's campaign and Obama's DOJ, CIA, and FBI that colluded with Russians to attempt to derail Trump's 2016 presidential bid? What if Jussie Smollett is really a self-centered, racist jerk who is using the privilege of his wealth and powerful connections to get off the hook from his crimes? What if the main reasons Asian Americans are the highest achieving in education and wealth are that they have a superior work ethic and commitment to education?
You think Democrats and associated SJWs ever ask themselves these questions? Never, save a rare few who immediately are condemned for treason to their cause.
I ask questions all the time. It's called critical thinking.
Re: Jussie though, no proof that he coordinated this was ever presented. The check's memo says for physical training. The store video doesn't link him. I have reasonable thought.
If you have any links pertaining to credible evidence then paste them. Sway me.
I've never seen you ask any of those questions. I've seen you call other people racist for asking them.
shareThe both of you are deflecting. If you have evidence, just link it. Or do you just believe "fake news" so easily?
shareRubbish. Nobody is deflecting. I believe Smollett to be a fraud based on the evidence that is known. For example: (1) Security cameras didn't show any evidence of two MAGA hatted white guys roaming around near the time of the supposed attack (he cagily inferred he believed them to be white in his Good Morning America interview), (2) He refused to give up his phone records for the bogus concern that the police might release all his personal communications. There is zero evidence he was on his cell with his manager when the attack occurred, (3) the Osundairo brothers were caught on film buying ski masks, red hats, and rope just 1 day before the supposed attack (masks and hats also found at their apartment; gee, what a coincidence), (4) a Cook County grand jury found the prosecution's case persuasive enough to indict Smollett on 16 felonies, (5) Smollett (by remarkable coincidence, again) just happened to pay the Osundairo clowns a hefty sum of $3500 for supposed gym training, (6) no plausible motivation has emerged as to why the Osundairo brothers would have attacked Smollett, or why, if they did, the police haven't charged them with that crime.
You don't know whether this circumstantial evidence is false any more than I know it's true. This is what juries are for to decide. In fact, a jury will soon be deciding whether Smollett and his legal team have falsely accused the Osundairo brothers of the attack as they claim in their brand new lawsuit against poor Jussie. Too bad the corrupt Kim Foxx saw to it that the city's lawsuit was dropped and all the details sealed (my what a privileged figure of oppression Jussie is). My opinion is that you're a fool if you think all these facts are just mere coincidence. You're probably just sticking up for Jussie for some dumb reason like black solidarity. Jussie appears to me to be a racist egomaniac who wanted all the media, celebrity, sympathy, book deals, and continued employment as an actor that would come from being a privileged, black, gay actor and victim.
Finally! Everything you listed I already examined.
1) The attackers were wearing masks. They said "This is Maga Country!" and put a rope around his neck. Two black attackers hiding their true identity by assuming behavior of white racists. That was actually clever in order to throw investigators off the track.
2) Not records - the phone itself with confidential and private info incl. contacts, photos, projects, banking, etc. The police were leaking info, so that concern is realistic.
3) We all know the Osundairo brothers did this because they confessed. The question was why.
4) Based on what the Osundairo brothers said after they were arrested. People lie esp. to save their own skins.
5) No coincidence. The brothers run a physical training and nutrition business called Team Abel and Jussie was a client. Jussie's texts exist asking nutrition advice from them.
6) see #3. To get them to cooperate - happens all the time. Personally, I believe they should've been charged.
"...lawsuit against poor Jussie..."
It's against Jussie's lawyers - not him.
"sticking up for Jussie"
I actually said I was on the fence.
"Jussie appears to me..."
That's opinion. I just want facts.
"We all know the Osundairo brothers did this because they confessed. The question was why."
No, the real question is why the Osundairo brothers haven't been charged with a crime. The only plausible explanation is that neither lil' Jussie nor the Cook County District Attorney's office wishes to. Now why is that? It's the year of being kind to Nigerian brothers? Your viewpoint requires really, really dumb and improbable explanations for why they aren't rotting in jail right now awaiting prosecution. All the evidence as we know it points to a cover up.
Obviously, you have no clue as to how the American criminal system works. Charges aren't filed, lowered, suspended or dropped all the time for cooperation with prosecutors or the police. This was even the situation with Manafort re: Mueller's investigation.
reason #5 for the brothers. reason # 1 for Jussie:
https://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2012/09/5-reasons-prosecutors-drop-criminal-charges.html
This is common knowledge in the U.S. Are you foreign?
Keelai wrote:
"I ask questions all the time. It's called critical thinking."
Yeah, you ask yourself questions like, "Shall I attempt a substantive reply or just do my usual thing and say this poster is deflecting?" That's some range you got, sport. How about asking an intelligent question and thinking about it for a change? Something like, "What motivation would the Nigerian brothers have for attacking their $3500 check writing benefactor, a rich celebrity actor with political connections who we might parlay into lucrative opportunities of our own?" Are you saying the Nigerian brothers are so homophobic, and so stupid, that they'd kill the golden goose just to unleash their anti-gay rage? Absent any real evidence for that motivation, I'd say you have a rather bigoted view of Nigerians.
If you're deflecting, then I will call you out on it. Period.
One way to know the truth would be a lie detector tests. I'd like to see who blinks and refuses to take it.
""What motivation would the Nigerian brothers have..."
Either way the brothers look bad, stupid and dishonest. If it was Jussie's idea, then they agreed to commit a fraud along with him. If it was their idea, then they were in disguise and didn't believe they would be caught. Motivation? People backstab their friends and family all the time out of jealousy, spite, hate, etc. I recently watched a documentary in which a high school girl was brutally killed and her body hidden by her two best friends who secretly disliked her and had planned her killing for months. Common sense would've been to not hangout with her.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/skylar-neese-shelia-eddy
"If you're deflecting, then I will call you out on it. Period."
You're constant accusations of "deflecting" is deflecting in itself, gaslighting style. You're the one who avoids the obvious questions, as I've pointed out. Period (another giveaway of a deflector).
This is the first time I've read an indictment with no evidence presented:
https://dig.abclocal.go.com/wls/documents/2019/030819-wls-smollett-indictment-doc.pdf
Jussie could probably sue the police for false arrest if he wished to pursue this matter.
BTW, within one week I've read several news items re: innocent people going to prison based on someone else's lie. This man who had the mind of a 6 year old was executed. He received a full and unconditional posthumous pardon decades afterwards:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-justice-story-joe-arridy-20190428-vprcd5dgira37gjiwcnr3dnlky-story.html
Something similar is happening where I live now. The police haven't been able to solve a horrible murder so arrest and convict anyone to get the public pressure off. The guy is either autistic or slow but either way it's obvious he has no idea what's going on. A week doesn't pass without my reading in my local paper about falsely accused people being released from prison after years or police misconduct. This week I've read three such stories.
People lie. Its that simple. Putting someone in prison or executing them based on only testimony is dangerous.
Shut up, Jussie- the evidence is there. You hired those two Nigerians to impersonate white folks to start a race war. You belong in jail!
shareWhat evidence? Smollet is half-white, dummy.
shareI dont care what your race is, Jussie. You hate America and the only reason why you got off is because that Obama lawyer called that stupid and corrupt DA (who is not gonna get reelected either). Justice will prevail though, and I cant wait till your ass is in jail!
shareLOL! You're delusional. Seek help.
shareI'm correct- you are Jussie, because nobody would be stupid enough to defend him except himself. Gotcha!
shareI am defending the Constitution on this very week of Independence Day!
"In the United States, a person is considered innocent until proven guilty. The 14th amendment to the US Constitution guarantees to every person, aliens included, “equal protection under the law.”
Shut up, Jussie, youre a lying race baiter who tried to make fake news to start a race war. Your crimes are not protected by the Constitution.
shareIt sounds like you're against the Founding Fathers' vision for the U.S., The Constitution and basically anti-American.
shareWhere does it say in the Constitution that you can use fraud to start a race war?
shareWhy are you obsessed with race? Are you a racist?
"In the United States, a person is considered innocent until proven guilty. The 14th amendment to the US Constitution guarantees to every person, aliens included, “equal protection under the law.”
You might as well quit preaching this "innocent until proven guilty" argument, Keelai, since you and your Dem/Lib buddies condemned Trump guilty of "Russian collusion" (rolling my eyes) before there was even an investigation. Even after Mueller's witch hunt -- um, I mean investigation -- failed to show evidence of a crime ya'll still slander him as guilty. Hypocrites!
shareRussian Interference - Mueller Report, page 9:
"The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016."
Trump Obstruction of Justice - Mueller Report, page 369:
"Our investigation found multiple acts by the President that were capable of exerting undue influence over law enforcement investigations, including the Russian-interference and obstruction investigations."
I decided to repeat this comment from another post because you cultists just repeat what propaganda you hear on Fox.
Mueller also passed much of the evidence to the 29 committees and agencies for their on-going investigations. Fines and imprisonment will be waiting for him in 2020.
BTW, "collusion" doesn't exists legally as a chargeable offense, genius. Use the correct term.
You lied when you said you were attacked by two white dudes, Jussie. The fact is you paid two Nigerians (by check) to attack you. So if there's a racist here, it's you.
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