Terrence Howard Breaks Silence On ‘Empire’ Co-Star Jussie Smollett: He Could Have ‘Set the World on Fire’

Jussie Smollett got some more bad news as his co-star on the show “Empire,” actor Terrence Howard, broke his silence on the verdict.

On Sunday evening, Howard, who is an Academy Award-nominated actor, spoke about the verdict involving Smollett during an appearance on Mark Vargas’ “Mark My Words” radio show.

Howard said about the jury, who found Smollett guilty on 5 of 6 counts, “They judged him and found him guilty, 12 of them that judged from a completely unbiased position… you have to respect that.”

Additionally, Howard noted that the small spark Smollett’s hate crime story created could have “set the world on fire,” which seems like a similar way to put what happened with George Floyd the following year.

It seems like perhaps groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa were just waiting for the right time to do just that, but perhaps that time wasn’t in early 2019, after Democrats had just won back the House.

The right time was apparently in the lead up to the 2020 elections, much like in 2016, although at that time they were not able to totally take over every aspect of daily life.

It is conceivable that the pandemic was the proper conditioning needed to ultimately make that happen, a distraction of sorts.

Howard added that “If they had gotten away with it, whoever orchestrated it. Whatever was set up. If they got away with it, then we would have the potential of blacks feeling like they need to defend black people against MAGA, and it could have turned into something very, very scary and very ugly. People would have gotten hurt and killed and if that was the case, the blood on someone’s hands would have been massive.”

However, Howard refused to admit that Smollett had, in fact, staged the fake hate crime.