Jay Weber Show transcript 11-30-21 6:40am
Boy-two high profile trials this week: Jussie Smollett and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The hoaxer and the hooker-being tried in the same week.
I’m guessing that most people will be more interested in the Maxwell trial, given the more salacious nature of the accusations, and the fact that all sorts of rich and powerful men could be involved.
But I’m not expecting them to be named in court. The judge has put a global gag order on the players in this trial. They can talk to no media, and there is no camera access in the courtrooms. I don’t know how much tantalizing coverage we will really get on that one-
But I am more interested in Jussie Smollett’s trial, because here’s a racist weasel who tried to use his connections to get out of being held accountable for pulling a high-profile racial hoax on the country because he thought he could use the racial tensions in this country to his advantage.
Smollett wanted to raise the profile of his acting career by making himself a victim, as well as a virtue signaling ‘woke’ activist. And he knew he’d have the Hollywood community and the Obamas and Oprah and the activist left behind him, so he figured he could pull it off.
But his attempt was so clunky and stupid that most of us saw thru it right away.
You were attacked- at two o’clock in the morning- on the most bitterly cold night of the year- in your very liberal, open, gay friendly community....by two racist white guys in trump hats who crouched in the shadows and waited for you...knowing you’d go out for a sandwich at two a.m.?
And then- they attacked and beat you and put a noose around your neck that you kept on-and wore for hours- as you talked with police?
And there was zero evidence of a beating?
And by the luck of the deli gods-you saved the sandwich.
You saved the sandwich!!? That soft subway bread wasn’t even dented in the attack.
Wow. That is some tale.
But- the left pounced. It was a very believable story to them, because they’d believe anything that vilified Trump and white people and victimized a black person.
So famous and powerful people flooded to Jussie’s side. Kamala Harris- then a presidential candidate
Corey booker also labeled the attack a ‘modern day lynching’...
No. They’re not.
Not unless they are targeted at Jews or Asians.
Those sorts of hate crimes-committed largely by urban minorities and woke NY leftists-are- on the rise, yeah.
But not hate crimes against blacks. They aren’t on the rise. Kamala Harris makes it up...to try to spin her way out of her embarrassing, blind support for a hoaxer.
And Smollett-for his part- got a friend of the Obama’s to intervene on his behalf and have that pear-headed disgrace down in Chicago- Kim Foxx-drop all charges. And there were sixteen of them.
She let Smollett walk free on sixteen charges related to the hoax and to the incredible waste of public resources that the Chicago PD expended investigating the crime and then proving the hoax.
Investigators had Smollett dead-to-rights, and Foxx let him go.
It wasn’t until after a judge appointed a special prosecutor and insisted charges be followed thru on-that Smollett was charged with the crimes he’s in court for this week.
It is now a six-count indictment...and one of the charges could come with up to three years in prison...but legal experts say it’s more likely he’d get probation and an order to perform community service, instead.
Still-he’d have a criminal record and there would be-some-sense of justice in a conviction.
A criminal defense attorney named Jonna Spilor was on Fox news yesterday. And was asked: with such a slam dunk set of facts like this-why would Smollett and his attorney insist on going to trial? She has a good answer:
Democrats' rush to judgment in Smollett case could blow up in their faces
So- Smollett-realizing that even a conviction on the most serious felony charge is most likely going to end in probation and not jail time- is willing to roll the dice and see if he can get a hung jury and keep a clean record-
As well as maintain the ability to keep telling his fraudulent tale about how he’s the victim.
It makes sense.
Smollett-is- a smug, arrogant, off-putting character, and that could come thru with the jury.
Especially if he takes the stand and thinks he can ‘act’ his way out of this, by fooling the jury.
Smollett is black and gay-and the fact that he thought that the best way for him to advance his career was thru a national ‘victim status’, should tell you all you need to know about life in America, today.
He was black and gay, and no one cared. He wasn’t seen as special. He wasn’t getting the attention that he thought he should be getting as a person or an actor.
After all-he checked two boxes in the left-wing grievance culture in which he had immersed himself.
It says a lot about the American-right- that Smollett was black and gay and a left-wing activist and no one cared. He still wasn’t a target of the sort of right-wing hate that he had been told would be focused on him.
So, he had to invent hoaxes. Plural.
And after his first hoax got no attention, he made up a hoax to smear conservative America and to elevate himself in leftist America. And he knew it would work. It did-for weeks- until the Chicago pd verified the hoax.
And even then-in today’s America- Jussie Smollett- a black gay man who was supposed to be a victim of this society-
Even then- he got a massive break by elite black people and got off scott-free on sixteen charges that were rock-solid proven by police detectives.
So where is this terrible, racist, homophobic America that was keeping Jussie Smollett down?
As a black, gay man in America, all he has gotten is break, after break, after break.
And he’s still claiming victim status?
That’s why I find his trial the more interesting of the two, this week.
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