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Sen. Kamala Harris, who once labeled the Jussie Smollet attack claim an "attempted modern day lynching," spoke out on Thursday after Smollett was charged and arrested with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report. The California lawmaker tweeted a statement expressing her sadness, frustration, and disappointment on the same day Smollett, who’s been released from jail, appeared before Cook County Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. “When anyone makes false claims to police, it not only diverts resources away from serious investigations but it makes it more difficult for other victims of crime to come forward,” Harris wrote.

Someone ought to send Jussie Smollett a gift and a thank you note. He's arguably done more for conservatives than anyone in recent memory. Maybe a MAGA hat and Subway sandwich. Smollett proved beyond any shadow of a doubt who really is biased, who really is racist and who really is full of sh*t. When it was first reported, virtue signalling liberals fell all over themselves expressing their outrage, facts be damned. Kamala Harris threw her two cents into the incident at light speed: https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090361495119187969Then asked about it as the hoax unraveled, she stutters and stammers "What Tweet?"https://youtu.be/l2-hKqhTNiw  "I think...

President Trump on Thursday condemned the reported attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, which is being investigated as a possible hate crime. “That I can tell you is horrible. It doesn't get worse,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Smollett has said two men approached him on Tuesday and hit him while yelling racist and homophobic slurs, then placed a rope around his neck. The incident has drawn national attention. TMZ reported Tuesday that the two suspects referenced Trump’s 2016 “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) campaign slogan during the alleged ambush, yelling, “This is MAGA country.” "We can not...

A neighbor of Empire actor Jussie Smollett claims she spotted a man resembling a “redneck” hanging out near the entrance to their Chicago apartment complex an hour and a half before the alleged attack, according to TMZ. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said she saw the man pacing between the building’s entrance and parking garage while she walked her dog at around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. According to Smollett’s neighbor, the man appeared agitated and “out of place” as he puffed on a cigarette. She said he was a white male with “scruff on his face” wearing a blue...

New details are emerging in the alleged attack and possible hate crime against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett. A dozen detectives are pursuing new leads and have tracked the actor's movements that night through video and photos, Chicago Police tell ABC News. They say video shows Smollett walking across the street from two possible persons of interest, whose photos were released late Wednesday to the public. In the video, Smollett walks out of frame for about a minute and reappears on another camera "wearing a rope like a neck tie," police said. Police are still hoping to speak to the two...

Donald Trump was talking trade and another looming government shutdown today in the White House but an alleged terror on one of the starts of Empire the streets of one of America’s greatest cities this week was also on the agenda. “That I can tell you is horrible,” the former Celebrity Apprentice host said Thursday when asked about the violent and homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett that seemingly occurred early in AM on Tuesday. “It doesn’t get worse,” the President added.

Chicago police have photos of people they'd like to talk to in the case involving "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, who was the victim of what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. Investigators have located a surveillance camera that shows people who are now wanted for questioning, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement on Twitter. Detectives had not yet found still images or video of the actual incident as of late Tuesday evening, police told CNN.

This “MAGA hate crime” thing reeks to high heaven. I’m not saying this man wasn’t attacked. I’m saying a lot doesn’t add up… and there’s clearly a lot we don’t know. While there is no actual evidence that the crime occurred as reported yet, there is supposedly a “witness.” Jussie Smollet alleges he was on the phone with his manager, Brandon Moore, at the time of the attack. Moore says he “CLEARLY” heard the “MAGA” comment while on the phone NEW: @ABC reporting Smollett’s music manager, Brandon Moore, has confirmed a @Variety report that he was on the phone with...