Posted on 03/28/2019 7:29:22 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
'They could have worn white face': Jussie Smollett lawyer offers bizarre explanation as to why the Empire actor told police his Nigerian assailants were white - and points to old video of one of them wearing make-up to play the Joker as potential proof
Tina Glandian said on Thursday first that it has never been proven it was the Osundairo brothers who attacked Jussie Smollett
Then she said that the reason he told police the attackers were white was because they could have been wearing make-up
Smollett himself identified surveillance video footage of the pair as the men who attacked him
His lawyers have not explained why else they would have jumped him unless he told them to, but say they have a 'theory' as to why
She also claimed it was one of them who told Smollett to go out and get 'eggs' at 2am as part of his nutrition plan
He has always said he went out for a Subway salad because he was hungry after getting home from a delayed flight
His team insists that there were no conditions to Smollett's charges being dropped and that he performed community service 'because of his character'
Glandian admitted that prosecutors asked him to forfeit the $10,000 bond but still maintains Smollett 'had to do nothing'
She insists her office's actions and interactions with prosecutors were above board
Kim Foxx, the Cook County State's Attorney, is facing scrutiny for how she handled the case
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Jussie Smollett's lawyer Tina Glandian suggested on Thursday that the reason he told police his Nigerian attackers were white was because they 'might have been wearing white face' and had disguised themselves. Her evidence of the theory is 2016 video of Abel Osundairo (right) dressed up as the Joker
Racist cultural appropriation. Smollet and the lawyer need to go to jail.
That would fool anyone.
Well, Eddie Murphy did it.
Did Ted Danson fool Whoopi Goldberg?
“Uhhh, point of clarification, your honor. Is counsel asserting that the brothers actually wore white face, or is counsel simply stating that the option was available to them even though we all know that the brothers did not, in fact, wear white face?”
Which is it?
"I skipped law class the day they taught penalizing multiple felonies. I was getting my nails done."
Chicago columnists blasted Kim Foxx's decision to drop the 16 felony counts against hoaxer Smollett. Chicago police union called for a federal investigation into Kim Foxx’s handling of the case.....her sub rosa actions on the Smollett family’s behalf after she was contacted by Tina Tchen, Michelle Obama's onetime aide. “Amateur hour is over.” ....this is nothing new for Kim Foxx. We’ve been complaining about her for two years on so many levels. Her office is just completely out of control.”
Equally reprehensible are the idiots at Southern Illinois University School of Law who gave her a law degree. And those at Southern Illinois University Carbondale who let her out.
‘They could have worn white face’
Then shouldn’t that be investigated? We can’t be glossing that over!
Smollett's victimized personna fought like blazes to get a TV interview. ABC's GMA obliged him. Smollett's lies were
picture-perfect. He was a fighting-mad "victim" as he lied to an unblinking true believer Robin Roberts on ABC's GMA.
Smollett reinvented himself as an especially fierce kind of "victim," a cool hero. “I fought the f**k back,” he told believer Roberts.
And, miracle of miracles, while Smollett was fighting off hate-filled attackers, he never once lost control of his Subway tuna sandwich.
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THE BLOWBACK MUSTA BEEN INTENSE--EARLY ON, ABC BROUGHT OUT THE BIG GUNS.
Roberts swallowed Smollett's story hook, line, and sinker, and roiled ABC's PTB.
As Smollett Story Unravels, ABC Defends Robin Roberts' Softball Interview on GMA
By Kristine Marsh, newsbusters.org | February 18, 2019
ABC’s Good Morning America team went into full damage control mode Monday, after news broke over the weekend that actor Jussie Smollett had allegedly paid two men to stage his assault. Just last Thursday, anchor Robin Roberts had given the actor a softball interview, even refusing to call his story of a Trump supporter assaulting him, “alleged.” Leading into the report, Roberts finally did call the quickly unraveling story “alleged:”
"A new twist in the Jussie Smollett case. The actor firing back this morning as the story of his alleged attack faces questions. Police in Chicago say they're working to corroborate allegations that Smollett paid two men to stage the assault," she stated. In reporter Eva Pilgrim’s report, she tried to save face for ABC, stressing that police had said Smollett was “cooperating fully” with the investigation up until this point. Pilgrim did not mention that the Chicago Police Department also said Smollett would only give partial, redacted phone records to them.
Roberts followed up by defending her interview with the actor, as appropriate given the knowledge they had at the time: This case is ever evolving. Head-spinning. Changing. When I sat down with Jussie, it was Tuesday night in Chicago. At the time to give his first account publicly give his first account of what he said happened. And we have to remember, at that time, on Tuesday, police officers were saying that his account was consistent. It was credible. And that he was being cooperative. This was all before the interview aired on Thursday and then we found out about the brothers. Afterwards, the ABC team brought on the network’s legal analyst, Dan Abrams, to help do more damage control, spinning Roberts’ interview as more even-handed than it was by hyping the few times she had gingerly brought up skeptics of his story:
[I] have to say, Robin, even in the interview you did, you were talking about the skeptics. You were talking about the people who questioned his account. So, it's not new this idea that there are questions about what happened. What's new is that the police now seem to be making it clear that they believe the brothers and have, at the very least, serious questions about Jussie.
To end their segment, ABC hammered home how they weren’t responsible for how much airtime his problematic story got to begin with. GMA’sweekend anchor Dan Harris worried that just Smollett, not their network or the media as a whole, had caused damage for actual victims of hate crimes. Dan Abrams agreed, even admitting that the media “wanted” to believe Smollett’s account.
Again, the ABC team wouldn’t acknowledge the media’s role in spreading his dubious account:
DAN HARRIS: If Smollett made this up, what kind of impact does this have on other people that come forward to tell stories that are true about assault?
ABRAMS: I think that is the real impact here. I think this would have a big impact on the country. Which is, you want to believe someone. I mean, you're talking about an allegation of homophobia, racism, politics, all of it in one allegation. If it turns out that this well-known person just made this up, it's going to, I think, lead some people to have questions about coming forward. It will lead others having questions about whether they believe people's accounts. This is having a much bigger impact I think.....
"Yes. It is a very interesting turn in this case. I know people who talked to Jussie over the weekend. He insists that he had nothing to do the story. The more you hear, the more questions that are being raised. The investigation we should stress is still underway," she gushed.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/02/18/smollett-story-unravels-abc-defends-robin-roberts-softball
WTF is this s***?
These people are total lunatics.
Apparently Chicago is a corrupt toilet bowl full to the brim with communist blacks.
But, that night he had a sandwich, not a salad.
So which is it? ski masks or white face? I'm sure there would be traces of white face makeup in the masks... oh, wait... they bleached their faces....
Jussie going to ride this sick mule into the ground.
That's so racist! /sarc
I will post this here with no comment other than to say the FBI specialist was Greg Wing:::
https://truepundit.com/top-fbi-child-sex-trafficking-did-jussie-rat-out-hollywood/
I believe “getting my nails did.” is the appropriate turn of phrase in da ‘hood.
from 2014:
Gregory J. Wing is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Supervisory Special Agent who manages the Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force in Chicago. The Task Force consists of Special Agents of the FBI, the Illinois State Police, Cook County Sheriff’s Police, Cook County States Attorney Investigators and the Chicago Police Department. Agent Wing has been a Special Agent for the past eleven years. Prior to his career with the FBI, Agent Wing was a Cook County, Illinois, Sheriff’s Police Officer/Deputy for 11 years. Agent Wing holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice.
Gregory J. Wing is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Supervisory Special Agent who manages the Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force in Chicago. The Task Force consists of Special Agents of the FBI, the Illinois State Police, Cook County Sheriff’s Police, Cook County States Attorney Investigators and the Chicago Police Department. Agent Wing has been a Special Agent for the past eleven years. Prior to his career with the FBI, Agent Wing was a Cook County, Illinois, Sheriff’s Police Officer/Deputy for 11 years. Agent Wing holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice.”
Hagen revealed that Chicago police were sharing investigative information with FBI agents. “Per request of FBI Special Agent Greg Wing, the [detective] forwarded a copy of the search warrant Number 19SW5223, which was issued pertaining to the Apple Incorporated held iCloud account controlled by Jussie Smollett to FBI analyst Mariella Lopez via email … The [detective] received an email reply indicating receipt of this document,” Hagen said.
Wearing 'whiteface' is a hate crime against all white people. I'm traumatized... just seeing that picture makes my head hurt...the Nigerians have dissed all of us... call the FBI - they need to send 75 agents to make sure we're OK...
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/03/28/12/11565964-6860095-image-m-6_1553776118292.jpg
BOL, that......or......”I was getting my hair straightened.”
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