Actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced this week for the hoax he perpetrated in 2019, in which he claimed he was attacked by Trump supporters in MAGA hats.
Smollett got off pretty easy with a sentence of 150 days in jail, felony probation and $120,000 in restitution.
After the sentence was handed down, Smollett insisted that he wasn’t guilty and said he is not suicidal, suggesting that if anything happens to him in jail, he did not do it to himself.
NBC News reports:
Jussie Smollett sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police by claiming racist, homophobic attack
Embattled actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months’ probation Thursday for falsely reporting to police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019.
“You’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime,” Cook County Circuit Judge James Linn told Smollett while announcing the sentence in Chicago.
Smollett responded by repeating, “I am not suicidal!” He said he was innocent and that “if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself,” referring to jail…
Smollett raised his fist as he was being led out of court by law enforcement, saying: “I am not suicidal. And I am innocent. I could have said that I was guilty a long time ago.”
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— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 11, 2022
Jussie Smollett screams "I am not suicidal!" as he is taken out of the courtroom.
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 11, 2022
Smollett should be thankful for such a light sentence.
Trump supporters have gotten much harsher sentences over January 6th.
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