Chicago PD claim they have ‘more evidence’ that Jussie Smollett staged his hate crime

By Jon Dougherty

Much to the chagrin of the Hollywood Left and 2020 Democratic presidential contenders like Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, it’s looking more and more like “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett did indeed fake his hate crime.

Chicago PD Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Monday during an interview with host Robin Robertson of “Good Morning America” that there is a ‘slew of evidence’ Smollett staged a hate crime hoax,Â Fox News reported.

“Let me just put this out there first and foremost right now that he still has the presumption of innocence until he has his day in court,” Johnson said.

He repeated that Smollett, 36, described the Jan. 29 incident as a hate crime and that Chicago PD indeed treated his complaint in that manner.

The police chief also said that though Smollett said his two alleged attackers concealed their faces, the actor was nonetheless “able to say he’d seen around their eyes that at least one was white-skinned.”

“The entire time we investigated the incident he was treated like a victim,” Johnson told Robertson.

SmollettÂ wasÂ charged Wednesday with felony disorderly conductÂ amid allegations of filing a false police report.Â He was allowed to turn himself in early Thursday.

If convicted, he is facingÂ up to three years in prison. AÂ judgeÂ set Smollett’s bondÂ for $100,000 on Thursday.

The actor claimed he was beaten up in the wee hours of a frigid morning in Chicago as he ventured out around 2 a.m. for a Subway sandwich. At the time, he told police that two hooded men worked him over, at once shouting racial and homophobic slurs (Smollett is gay), pouring a liquid believed to be bleach on him, and informing him in a loud and deliberate manner that â€œThis is MAGA country.â€



