Jussie Smollett

President Obama with Jussie Smollett.

Jussie Smollett (b. 1982) is a Hollywood actor, singer, director and photographer.

Alleged attack

Kamala and Jussie. Kamala introduced legislation to make lynching a federal crime; Jussie allegedly faked his own lynching attempt to draw attention to the bill.

According to Jussie Smollett, he was out grabbing a sandwich at 2 am in minus 9 degrees temperature at a Subway sandwich shop in the Windy City, when he was set upon by two white thugs. The attackers, wearing MAGA hats in uber-blue Chicago, allegedly called him a “f****t”, “n****r”, and told him “This is MAGA country!” before punching him, kicking him, dousing him with bleach and putting a noose around his neck. Harris immediately tweeted that the attack was a “modern day lynching.”

Sen. Kamala Harris, who is running for the Democratic party nomination in the 2020 presidential election, sponsored an “anti-lynching bill” in the Senate to make lynching a new federal crime in late December 2018. The bill had always previously stalled in the Senate, because it was seen as an unnecessary political gimmick, meant to remind people of historical black oppression in the South. Murdering people with a rope has always been a crime under state law. In the wake of Smollett’s faked “noose assault” in Chicago on January 29, Harris’s anti-lynching bill unanimously passed the Senate on February 14, 2019. Harris finally laid claim to a legislative accomplishment.

Chicago Police determined that Jussie Smollett paid two Nigerian-American (ie, black - not white) brothers, acquaintances $3,500 to “assault” Jussie in a rehearsed “attack”. The brothers produced a receipt for purchase of the rope with money they got from Smollett.

Smollett claims victim status in two groups: black and gay. Mainstream media bought the hoax hook-line-and-sinker. ABC News's Robin Roberts of Good Morning America proved the most gullible (among dozens of others).