Fri Mar 11, 2022 – 11:03 am EST
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — Disgraced left-wing actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in prison, 30 months on probation and more than $140,000 in financial penalties for his infamous 2019 fabrication of a right-wing hate crime against himself in one of the bluest cities in America.
In January 2019, the gay actor best known for his work on the drama Empire claimed he was assaulted in Chicago when two masked men allegedly shouted racial and “homophobic” epithets, beat him to the point of fracturing a rib, put a rope around his neck, and poured bleach on him. “This is MAGA country,” they allegedly yelled, a reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Numerous left-wing figures, including future President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, aggressively pushed the narrative that the incident was part of a wave of Trump-inspired hate and violence. But critics immediately questioned the likelihood of violent Trump supporters roaming around the streets of strongly-Democratic Chicago, suspicions that intensified after police failed to find video of the attack among hundreds of hours of footage from cameras near where the actor says
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