Hate Crime Hoaxer Jussie Smollett to be Sentenced on March 10th as Today Marks the 3rd Anniversary of When He Claimed to Be Attacked By Trump Supporters

Hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett is set to be sentenced on March 10th after being found guilty of five of six counts of lying to the police near the beginning of December.

Today also marks the 3rd anniversary of when the former “Empire” actor claimed that he was attacked by men yelling “This is MAGA country” in the middle of Chicago.

On Thursday, Smollett appeared in court virtually for a status hearing involving the case and that is when the judge set the date.

Despite the fact that the felonies he was convicted of are considered minor, special prosecutor Dan Webb told reporters at a news conference after the trial that he would probably point out during a sentencing hearing that Smollett took the stand in his own defense and lied for “hours and hours and hours.”

Webb insisted, “I think this will probably be a point that I’ll make at sentencing, that not only did Mr. Smollett lie to the police and wreak havoc in this city for weeks on end for no reason whatsoever, but then he compounded the problem by lying under oath to a jury, which I don’t think should happen.”

On the three-year anniversary of the hoax, Greg Price pointed out that tweets from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris offering support for Smollett and condemnation of “hate” are “still live.”

It’s the 3rd anniversary of the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax.

Both of these tweets are still live. pic.twitter.com/wouqsIXbat

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 29, 2022

Twitter user Avi Yemini shared a video in a tweet that shows a compilation of various liberal media and actors making outrageous statements in the aftermath.

“The best thing about Jussie Smollett is that he exposed them all,” Yemini explained.

The best thing about Jussie Smollett is that he exposed them all.

pic.twitter.com/llJfNxSUxd

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) December 12, 2021

Candace Owens shared a video mocking Smollett and urged in a tweet, “May we #NeverForget the bizarre sequence of events.”

Today marks the third anniversary of Jussie Smollett’s "attack". May we #NeverForget the bizarre sequence of events. pic.twitter.com/GWTkQfZvTt

— Candace (@thecandaceshow) January 29, 2022

As we reported after the trial, Smollett’s lawyer has vowed to appeal the verdict and still maintains his innocence.

Using some of the same wording that he did before the trial, defense attorney Nenye Uche said Smollett would appeal the conviction.

Uche said Smollett was disappointed but “holding up very strong,” and is “committed to clearing his name,” expressing confidence his client would be cleared by an appellate court.

Additionally, Uche suggested, “Unfortunately we were facing an uphill battle where Jussie was already tried and convicted in the media, and then we had to somehow get the jury to forget or unsee all the news stories that they had been hearing that were negative for the last three years.”

Uche also seized on the one not guilty count and called the split verdict “inconsistent” and that it made no sense for Smollett to be convicted of five counts but not the sixth charge, since “everything stems from one incident.”

At the news conference following the verdict, Webb said he didn’t want to draw conclusions about why the jury acquitted Smollett on the sixth charge.