Posted on 02/14/2019 6:00:23 PM PST by EdnaMode
20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment have voiced their support for “Empire” star Jussie Smollett after it was reported the actor and musician staged an attack on himself in Chicago. Chicago media had previously reported that Smollett staged the attack because he was being written off of the Fox series. However the Chicago P.D. said the reports of a hoax are still unconfirmed.
“The idea that Jussie Smollett has been, or would be, written off of ‘Empire’ is patently ridiculous,” the network and studio said in a joint statement. “He remains a core player on this very successful series and we continue to stand behind him.”
Reps for Smollett previously told Variety that reports Smollett staged the attack were “ridiculous rumors.”
It was reported on Thursday that the Chicago police were interviewing two persons of interest in the case, believed to be the two men seen in a surveillance video image released by the police shortly after the first report of the attack. The men turned out to be brothers from Nigeria, with police executing a search warrant on their home that same day. Investigators reportedly took a laptop, shoes, and bleach from the home.
On Jan. 29, it was reported that Smollett had been assaulted by two men at approximately 2 a.m. in the 300 block of E. North Water St. Smollett stated that the two men had shouted “racial and homophobic slurs” at him before beating him, pouring a chemical believed to be bleach on him, and putting a rope around his neck.
Also on Thursday, “Good Morning America” aired Smollett’s first interview since the incident. “If I had said it was a Muslim or a Mexican or someone black, I feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot more,” Smollett said during the interview
And now we have motive...
“If I had said it was a Muslim or a Mexican or someone black, I feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot more,”
You’d have to be a fool, a Marxist State Media pimp or whore, or an Ivy League law professor to believe this obvious false flag operation.
Why did he turn over edited phone records to police?
Why did he miss an interview with police today?
Those questions need to be answered.
On another thread, the police spokesman denied the accuracy of the reports. This isn’t a done deal yet.
Considering who we’re talking about, I probably would have worded the headline a little differently.
And then they change positions.
FOX probably helped stage the entire script.
FOX “news” HATES American’s ELECTED PRESIDENT.
Drudge has it that it was staged.
If they really were going to write him off the program, now they can’t. At least not before the end of the season.
If he whines, lies and plays the victim on the set as he did during that interview, I can see why they would wish to be rid of him.
When this gay actor goes to jail, there will be a long line
“Standing behind him” waiting their turn.
Lol
Drudge is pretty far behind the curve these days.
I’m sure lots of folks have stood behind Joosy.
Maybe theywritehis character as staging an attac on himself and lying about it, then losing his job and being written out.
I want to know WHO thought this was going to be a great idea? This punk? His agent? His parent/s? Fox Studios?
That’ll work. Jussie can then say he was using the Method Acting technique, same as Robert deNiro and Christopher Bale used to do. That’s the ticket.
White homophobic Trump spouting Nigerians. With invisible MAGA hats. Twerp said the two guys in the video “are them”.
No will to prosecute the protected class.
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