Two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that Chicago Police believe Jussie Smollett paid two men to orchestrate the assault.
The brothers, who were arrested Wednesday, were released without charges Friday after Chicago police cited the discovery of "new evidence." The sources told CNN that the two men are now cooperating fully with law enforcement.Using the Liberal Standard of, "If you've done nothing wrong, and have nothing to hide, then why would you not fully cooperate," which is what, to me, was the beginning of the unraveling of Smollett's "I was attacked" story.
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CNN's attempts to reach both Smollett's representative and attorney Saturday were unsuccessful.
During his "GMA" interview, Smollett addressed his initial refusal to give his phone to authorities, which he said was due to concern for his privacy.Well...as long as those photos, videos, numbers, songs, voice memos are all within what is "legal", what is there to be concerned about? What is there to be paranoid about in handing over to the police the telephone numbers of family, friends, cast members? Why would this be a concern of "privacy" for him? What does Smollett think the PD will do with his "private" data?
“Because I have private pictures and videos and numbers," he explained, noting his phone contains "my partner’s number, my (family members numbers), my castmates' numbers, my friends' numbers, my private emails, my private songs, my private voice memos.”
"And I see the attacker, masked and he said, 'This MAGA country, (N-word).' Punches me right in the face," Smollett continued. "So I punched his (expletive) back. And then we started tussling and it was very icy.
"We ended up tussling by the stairs, fighting, fighting, fighting," Smollett added. "There was a second person involved who was kicking me in my back, and then it just stopped. And they ran off.”
Over the past two weeks, Chicago received considerable snowfall. How did this bottle survive sidewalk shoveling or snow-sweepers? This bottle went undisturbed for almost two weeks?Last week, The Post traced Smollett’s likely route to the underpass from a 24-hour Subway sandwich shop where he bought a tuna sandwich and a salad.
Near the foot of a stairwell to the Loews, The Post found an empty hot sauce bottle that was partially filled with a clear liquid that smelled like bleach.
An exclusive interview with "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett will air Thursday morning on ABC's "Good Morning America."USA MacPaper: Police reject Smollett's redacted phone records.
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In the interview with GMA's Robin Roberts, Smollett said "I'm pissed off."
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...Roberts asked him what was making him so angry.
He responds: "It's the attackers, but also the attacks."
Smollett also talked about those who don't believe his story.
Sgt. Rocco Alioto told USA TODAY that although they appreciate Smollett's cooperation, the submitted records were rejected because they "do not meet the burden for a criminal investigation as they were limited and heavily redacted."CBS Chicago: Timeline of events of Smollett's incident.
Two weeks have passed since Jussie Smollett told police he was attacked. The 36-year-old openly gay “Empire” actor has not changed his report of the event, but police still do not have anyone in custody.Sandra Rose: An alternative incident possibility?
The consensus within the Chicago PD is that Smollett lied about the attack.The Blaze: Neighbor of Smollett doesn't believe attack happened.
Sources say investigators believe Smollett was attacked by a man (or men) he met on a homosexual dating app within an hour after he landed in Chicago.
Smollett is reportedly desperate to keep the truth from coming to light.
"I don't believe it happened the way he said it did," Agin Muhammad, who lives in the apartment complex as the actor, the New York Post reported. "I've been in this neighborhood five years. I don't believe it, not around here. … Half the people are gay and the other half are black."
When “Empire” star Jussie Smollett said he was attacked by a group of Trump supporters in an apparent hate crime, conservatives were skeptical.This is incredible. If the attack on Mr. Smollett is true, Liberals are happy the attack occurred, even if it happens to one of their fellow Liberals. It doesn't matter, because if the attack is true, well then, it reinforces the Libs' false narrative that any person who disagrees with their ideology is a MAGA-shouting-Racist-Bigot who must be doxxed, threatened, abused on social media, shouted-out of public places, attacked...whatever.
Liberals, on the other hand, were downright giddy.
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But police are now asking plenty of questions. And, it turns out, Smollett doesn’t have any answers.
The thing has all but been confirmed as a hoax at this point. Even the police aren’t buying it anymore.
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Police have now scoured hundreds of hours of video footage and have found nothing resembling an attack on the star.
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Fox 32 Chicago reporter Rafer Weigel said “My sources in Chicago PD are telling me this is looking more and more like a hoax.”
Chicago police have confirmed a @TMZ report to @ABC that a neighbor of Smollett's did come forward with information. Her description of a man she said she saw with a rope of some kind was "significantly different" than one provided by Smollett.Why won't Mr. Smollutt let Chicago PD verify his telephone records, which potentially would help the police identify the alleged attackers? Daily Caller:
Detectives took her information but have yet to find any surveillance video that shows an individual matching the description she gave.
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) said “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett and his music manager are not handing over phone records of a conversation that occurred Tuesday morning during an alleged attack.Via The Grio, surveillance camera capture of those identified by Chicago PD as "persons of interest".
The victim and his manager reported that they were talking on their cell phones to each other but CPD has been unable to independently verify this because they refused to turn over their cell phones,” CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a Thursday statement[.]
"I am working with authorities and have been 100 percent factual and consistent on every level," Smollett said in his first statement about the incident he reported on Tuesday.
Reportedly beaten, bleached, and restrained with a noose by two white men spouting Trumpisms and wearing MAGA hats, Smollett experienced a level of emboldened violence that marginalized communities at large have feared and anticipated since (and well before) the election of our current sitting president.Yet, SOHH reports:
Jussie never said the men were wearing the hats. Rather, they screamed “MAGA country.”I don't know what to believe. There hasn't been sufficient information released (at least to the public) by Chicago authorities to reasonably conclude the attack actually happened, that it was a hoax or that it was done as a PR stunt/hoax. Eventually, we'll know.
A photo from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook shows him and another person in racist costumes — one wearing blackface and one a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, though it was not clear which person was the future governor.
The photo, which The Virginian-Pilot obtained a copy of Friday from the Eastern Virginia Medical School library, comes from the 1984 yearbook, the year Northam graduated.
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"I recognize that it will take time and serious effort to heal the damage this conduct has caused. I am ready to do that important work. The first step is to offer my sincerest apology and to state my absolute commitment to living up to the expectations Virginians set for me when they elected me to be their governor," [Northam said].
Northam admits he is depicted in the photo, but it is unclear which man is Northam.This is the same Democrat governor claiming his controversial abortion views are "mischaracterized".
At the press conference, a small group of protesters, including a pregnant woman, silently held signs with pictures of infants and captions such as: "Endangered Species in Ralph Northam's Virginia."And let us not forget long, long-time U.S. Senator from West Virginia, the deceased Robert Byrd, KKK Exalted Cyclops who was free from criticism in saying, "white nigger" and who invoked Nazi language and Adolf Hitler during Senate discussion over the "nuclear (Senate) option."
Fake editions of The Washington Post claiming that President Donald Trump was leaving office were handed out Wednesday morning at multiple locations in Washington, D.C.Thursday's real front page of the Jeff Bezos Peoples' Republic is below.
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...the fake newspaper's lead story said that Trump had left a resignation message on a napkin in the Oval Office and left Washington for Yalta, the famous Crimean resort as the site of a meeting of Allied heads of state during World War II.
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Liberal activist group Code Pink posted a video on Facebook of the organization's founder, Madea Benjamin, passing out copies of the paper at what appears to be a Capitol Hill office building.
In the video, Benjamin tells people, "The crisis is over - Trump has left the White House." Later, she adds, "You gotta believe in the Washington Post."
[The Daily Star] By Jack Andrews, Exclusive / Published 11th January 2019.
He "laid the smackdown" on PC softies in an exclusive chat with the Daily Star.
“So many good people fought for freedom and equality - but this generation are looking for a reason to be offended, [said Dwayne Johnson].MSN: Johnson slams "fabricated quotes".
“If you are not agreeing with them then they are offended - and that is not what so many great men and women fought for,” [he said].
The superstar thinks that while the world has become a more tolerant and better place, whining snowflakes are draining positive change through their constant moaning.
"Earlier today online, an interview dropped ... where I was [apparently] insulting and criticizing millennials. The interview never took place, never happened, never said any of those words. Completely untrue. 100 percent fabricated," he said in the video, adding that he "quite baffled" [sic] by the story.Guess we'll see if this escalates and IF The Daily Star has proof of what Johnson allegedly said. Fake News? Or a PR Stunt? Or...?