CYA.
From the beginning, TMZ has defended Jussies despite questions about facts and details.
Now TMZ seems to be claiming they too believe there were legitimate questions about Jussies' account of the alleged attack.
Smellitt is a liar.
More information from Hot News Hip Hop:
“According to these new reports, the Osundairo brothers told the police they staged attack was scheduled to take place before January 29 and that they had practiced the scenario days before it finally went down. Smollett is said to have paid for the rope they used in the attack, purchased in the Ravenwood neighborhood’s Crafty Beaver Hardware Store on January 25.
“One brother allegedly held the rope around Smollett neck and poured bleach over him during the 2 AM attack, while the other wore the MAGA hat, purchased at an Uptown beauty supply store, and shouted racist and homophobic slurs.
So Smollett’s account was basically true - they really did wear a MAGA hat and pour bleach over him. There’s just that one small detail....
Chicago detectives played this perfectly from the get-go. The awful thing is how much money and resources (calls, data, visits, forensics and on and on) were wasted on this twisted scu bag that could have gone to real criminal cases. HE MUST make FULL restitution of these costs, in addition to prison time.
Let the 3 fight it out in the press. Either way the red hat wearing redneck is innocent.
I’m being framed, FRAMED damm’it! Framed by those Trump M’fers..THOSE TRUMP M”FERS dammmit!
No noose is good noose.
The Chicago PD ain’t shy about prosecuting people for fake hate crimes regardless of the race of the person filing the false police report. Smollet’s celebrity rather than his race may be why they’re slow-walking it.
Shall we do the countdown? The countdown before “whyte peepol” are blamed for setting him up and making it look like a hoax? 5-4-3-2-1......
Wonder if Jussie received any funds for this acting gig ... perhaps channeled from the DNC or Soros, maybe?
The accusation that Smollett stages a racial attack by whites is inconvenient rebuke of the Left’s cherished narrative that whites are the eternal oppressor.
Well this one is quite an interesting angle on a ‘Nigerian scam’.
Social Jussie Warrior
From: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/how_the_smollett_hate_crime_case_unraveled.html
The ongoing collapse of the claimed hate crime against actor Jussie Smollett has been an example of bottom-up, not top-down news gathering. Chicago’s Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and the CPD’s official communications have at every opportunity defended the original narrative. But the rank-and-file cops, quite probably outraged at what was fairly quickly seen by them as an obvious fraud, leaked to their friends in the local media. And two outstanding local websites, Second City Cop and especially CWB Chicago (which reports honestly about crime in the Windy City, and which depends on donations – donate here), have been to go-to sources putting it all together many steps ahead of what the more established media were willing to publish.
CWB Chicago has a round-up of the latest developments in the fast-breaking case. Some excerpts, but be sure to read the whole thing:
Saturday evening, CPD’s top spokesperson said investigators’ interrogations of Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and his brother Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo have “shifted the trajectory of the investigation. We’ve reached out to [Smollett’s] attorney to request a follow-up interview.” The two men were identified as being the “persons of interest” seen on surveillance images near the attack scene. (snip)
CBSChicago reporter Charlie De Mar reported that the Osundairo brothers were paid $3,500 to participate in the ruse with a promise to be paid another $500 upon their return from a two-week trip to Nigeria that began hours after Smollett reported the purported hate crime to police.
De Mar also reported that the Osundairo brothers told detectives that they and Smollett “rehearsed the attack days prior to it happening.”
Rafer Weigel of Fox Chicago also reported that detectives said the Osundairos were paid by Smollett to orchestrate the attack. Weigel, CNN, and Rob Elgas of ABC7 all reported that detectives had secured proof that the Osundairo brothers purchased a rope for the noose at an Ace Hardware store. That information was also included in a detailed tip about the case that CWBChicago received on Feb. 6th. (snip)
And, in a potential sign of things to come, Fox News reporter Mike Tobin reported late Saturday that “Jussie Smollett is no longer considered a victim in this case.”
One of the most intriguing, but as-yet unconfirmed, aspects of the case is raised by CWBChicago’s publication on Thursday of the search warrant used to enter the apartment of the Osundairo Brothers. In an example of the building on each other’s work of these two blogs, Second City Cop explains today:
Numerous readers sent us the Search Warrant receipt that had been circulating around Twitter, Facebook and (again) the CWB blog that has done incredible amounts of reporting. (snip)
…right on Line One is what interests us....or rather, what might finally bring the whole mess to the FBI:
Magazine on bird cage
The warrant already lists Proof of Residency farther down the receipt. Why seize a magazine? Is this the magazine that might have all the letters cut out of it for the mail threat that was sent from a south side post office to the studio about a month ago? It’s hard to believe that someone would keep that around afterwards, but everyone knows the feds take a very dim view of using the Post Office for anything illegal.
If this theory pans out, on top of state charges, the feds will have to get involved. If, as many suspect, the Osundairo Brothers have turned state’s evidence (why else would they have been released by the cops so quickly after their arrest?), Jussie Smollett’s troubles have only just begun.
If it were anyone else then they would have been arrested already. Then the cops can question him.
Either Columbo needs to be out on this case or possibly Crockett and Tubbs. They will get to the truth.
He was a big supporter of Camilia Harris and the anti-lynching law passed immediately AFTER the incident. THAT should be front page news. I bet many in Congress and the Senate were in on it, along with all his friends at work.
Obviously the police were told by the corrupt authorities to go easy on him, because he is a member of 2 highly privileged government-certified victim groups.
Last I heard, he’s officially not a victim, and they’re not saying about his suspect status. By tomorrow maybe he’ll be arrested.
At this point his only option is to refuse to talk to the police. Or anyone except his lawyer.
Looks like another type of noose is tightening.