Jussie Smollett's guilty verdict just made it even harder for victims of hate crimes, ZachStafford writes.
.” During his impeachment inquiry, Trump used the allegations against Smollett to describe how unfairly he had been and was being treated.
"Then you have the case of this wise guy Jussie Smollett, who beat up ... himself," Trump said in late 2019 to a group of police chiefs in Chicago,"It is a scam. A real big scam. Just like the impeachment of your president is a scam," he said.it’s obvious why the Trump family loved the case against Smollett: a"fake" hate crime reported by a high-profile Black, gay celebrity was the perfect shield in a country where identity is everything.
We couldn’t help but cover the story of a Black, gay celebrity who said he’d been attacked by Trump supporters.
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