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Jussie Smollett 'pissed off' that some doubt his attack: 'It's the truth'
EW ^ | February 13, 2019

Posted on 02/13/2019 1:05:44 PM PST by SMGFan

Jussie Smollett has some strong words for anybody who doubts he was the victim of a hate crime in Chicago last month.

The Empire actor tells Robin Roberts at Good Morning America in an advance preview of his upcoming interview that he’s “pissed off” by suggestions that he might not have been truthful in his police report.

“What is it that has you so angry? Is it the…attackers?” Roberts asked.

“Attackers, but it’s also the attacks,” Smollett replied. “It’s like, you know, at first, it was a thing of, like, ‘Listen, if I tell the truth then that’s it, ’cause it’s the truth.’ Then it became a thing of like, ‘Oh, how can you doubt that? Like, how do you — how do you not believe that? It’s the truth.’ And then it became a thing of like, ‘Oh, it’s not necessarily that you don’t believe that this is the truth, you don’t even want to see the truth.'”

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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: chicago; empire; hoax; jussie; jussiesmollett; smollett
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
So if we believe Jussie..

We don't.

But we'd like to see his phone records so we can really dump on him for being the drama queen he is!

What I don't get is why there are so many people faking persecution for attention and political points.

41 posted on 02/13/2019 1:29:56 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: JonPreston; Red Badger

:: He was cruising for gay sex. ::

Nope.
GRNDR app.
User name: “ILikeItRough”


42 posted on 02/13/2019 1:30:46 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
GRNDR app. User name: “ILikeItRough”

Bobbing for boners?

43 posted on 02/13/2019 1:35:13 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: SMGFan

this guy just double-downs on stupid. His phone records don’t show a phonecall from or to his manager, he’s walking with a sandwich into his building, but, most of all, he committed the highest crime in the nation.....he lied to the FBI. Equal justice!


44 posted on 02/13/2019 1:36:32 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: SMGFan

45 posted on 02/13/2019 1:36:59 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: SMGFan

Oh, please, enough of these “LIKE”s


46 posted on 02/13/2019 1:37:45 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: JonPreston

Well Jon, at 2AM and subzero windchill, I think we can rule out your “trolling” speculation.


47 posted on 02/13/2019 1:38:09 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: SMGFan

False flag reports are a dime-a-dozen these days. Everyone should demand a high level of proof.


48 posted on 02/13/2019 1:38:15 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: LeoTDB69

As long as it advances the agenda, the Press won’t do a thing.


49 posted on 02/13/2019 1:38:41 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
He has claimed that his attackers hit, kicked, and bit him too. But both "attackers" were wearing full face covering wool head coverings...so HOW and WHERE was he bitten, because he had NO signs of any of that. Oh and from broken, to bruised, to nothing wrong with his ever changing story about his ribs, doesn't help his account of what happened either.

And then there is "talking on the phone" and carrying a sandwich in a bag, when he was attacked. He still had his phone AND the bag from SUBWAY, with him, when he entered the building.

His "attackers" didn't steal his phone, take his sandwich, and he didn't drop either/both when he supposedly "fought them off"?

50 posted on 02/13/2019 1:42:54 PM PST by nopardons
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To: SMGFan

I really DO want to see the truth, I want to believe that he didn’t just make up an attack for no reason. I WANT to know why he can’t identify his attackers, why his story keeps changing, why there is no camera shot of this, why he left a rope around his neck “to show the police” when he says he wasn’t GOING to go to the police at all and his friend had to talk him into it.

I want all the answers. I want to know why he was walking at 2am in sub-zero weather, why two Trump supporters would be in that part of town, how they recognized him, why they would be carrying bleach and a rope, and why they attacked him.

I want to know how he managed to beat up two attackers (he claims he fought back and they fled). I want to know how two guys beat him and he had no injuries. I want to know what the substance was that was spilled on him, and if the police have confirmed it.

I want to know how he managed to hold on to a phone in one hand, and a sub sandwich in the other, while being attacked, and how he fought off two people while holding those things. I want to know why he didn’t tell the person he was on the phone with (his manager) about the attack, or to hang up and call the police. I want to know why HE didn’t hang up. (It certainly seems that, if ANYTHING happened, he wasn’t at all worried about it, and wanted instead to have his manager catch whatever was said).

In short, I am not afraid of the truth, I want the truth. I am not “invested” in him being wrong, I have no love for anybody, trump supporter or not, beating up people on the street. If he was attacked, I want them to catch the attackers.

But the problem is, here we are two weeks out, and there seems to be absolutely no evidence for anything, just a statement from the alleged victim, and a dubious statement from someone he was “talking to” that they heard some bizarre claim of “maga country” over the phone.


51 posted on 02/13/2019 1:44:01 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: nopardons

The attackers worked fast! In that 60 second window!

Just kidding. You don’t have to convince me.

What I’m hoping is that this Bozo’s fans will notice. But they probably won’t.


52 posted on 02/13/2019 1:48:57 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Hojczyk

You’d think if they went to all the trouble to beat him up, terrorize him with bleach and put a noose around his neck that he’d be at least missing a few teeth or have a broken nose. He doesn’t even have a black eye! Not a single stitch either. And there were two guys, allegedly.


53 posted on 02/13/2019 1:49:24 PM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: SMGFan

My first thought was something my daddy used to say, “better pissed off than pissed on”.
But then I realized he might enjoy that.


54 posted on 02/13/2019 1:54:10 PM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
No,whatever "fans" he does have, won't believe the FACTS, should they EVER be made public; sadly.

And the whole thing with the bleach smelling tiny bottle of hot sauce, TWO WEEKS LATER, is beyond funny!

The police were all over the entire area, when they were called and found......NOTHING!

It was not just brutally cold that night, but on and off for days afterwards and snow, freezing rain, just rain fell. And I know this for a fact, because my best friend lives in Chicago, with whom I email and/or talk with almost daily. Yes, we DO talk about the weather, especially when it is rotten.

55 posted on 02/13/2019 1:55:08 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Hojczyk

I’m wondering about the bleach he claims was splashed on him. Where are the burns on his body? Where are the splotches on his clothes; or even holes eaten in them by the bleach? Hate-filled attackers would NOT dilute any bleach THEY hurled at him. Did Jussie dilute some bleach to harmless strength and dribble some on himself? I once spilled bleach on some jeans. It ate big holes in them; like the holes in his story.


56 posted on 02/13/2019 1:55:25 PM PST by Tucker39 ("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: SMGFan

We all know (or should know) that there are unsavory people in all racial groups who are racist buttholes that perpetrate sneak attacks on unsuspecting people of another race. What strains credulity is the idea that there are lurking bands of buttholes running around with a supply of rope to do something like this. I do not remember an alleged hate crime involving rope in the news that didn’t turn out to be a fraud. There have been hate crimes, but generally they seem aimed at causing harm rather than following a checklist. This was more like an urban legend type of thing because the folkloric components seem to have been the main point.


57 posted on 02/13/2019 1:56:54 PM PST by BlackAdderess (When anyone can be fired at any time with the magic of Photoshop anyone can be blackmailed)
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To: nopardons

Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) Always:

Lie.
Project.
Double Down.


58 posted on 02/13/2019 1:57:01 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SMGFan

Ah, dummassetry at its finest.

Uh, nope we do not believe you.

Not yesterday.

Not today.

Not nevah!!


59 posted on 02/13/2019 1:57:11 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: FrdmLvr
Not to mention the fact that the ONLY video of ANYONE, other than this idiot, were walking in that area, were two people, walking AWAY from there, 30 MINUTES PRIOR to when he claimed he was attacked! LOL
60 posted on 02/13/2019 1:57:15 PM PST by nopardons
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