President Donald Trump reacted to the news today after “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was arrested and charged with a felony for organizing a fake attack.
Smollett said he was attacked by Trump supporters, and the media loved it, but now they have been caught helping a liar throw dirt at Maga supporters.
In less than a month, the 36-year-old actor went from being the apparently empathic victim of a hate crime to being accused of inventing the whole thing.
Smollett just posted bail from police custody and Chicago police superintendent, Eddie Johnson, said in a news conference that “Smollett organized this deception because he was not satisfied with his salary so he invented a story about being attacked, “and also blamed Democratic presidential candidates such as Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren for spreading the fake news.
The Cook County State Attorney’s Office approved criminal charges for serious crimes against Smollett for filing a false report with the police about the fake attack.
The actor said that on January 29, 2019, two masked men beat him at night in downtown Chicago while proffering racist and homophobic insults. At
President Trump responded after the press conference to draw attention to this deception.
However, there is something that is not right with what the police are saying about the motive.
They say that Smollett was not happy with his salary, but sources say that Smollett was paid $ 65,000 per episode for his role as a co-star in Empire and that an average season for the show has 18 episodes. If he was upset about his salary, why not ask for a pay increase? And how could he earn more than he was earning as a victim of a crime?
Was it because of his salary or because his lawyers advised him to say that because it seems less harmful than the truth?Waht do you think?
