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I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Oh, man, there is so much to get to today. We have all the updates on the Jussie Smollett case.

We have a fantastic update on the Jussie Smollett case. We have a fantastic

update on the So Fresh, So Face, AOC. We now know that she lives, I kid you not, in a luxury

apartment that does not have any affordable housing in it. Oh no. Why is this any shock? It shouldn't

be a shock because Congress is going to Congress.

These folks, they're not great. They're not sending their best. And this is why I'm a big believer in calling a convention of states where we the people can propose amendments. Yes, amendments that could force, for example, term limits on Congress and make them balance the budget. We've got to stop these idiots before it is too late. Can you imagine the look on the faces of these Congress people when they realize that millions of people are getting on board and preparing to kick them out of their forever offices? That would be pretty amazing. It is time to remind politicians that these offices belong to the people and also that the budget ought to be balanced. You don't get to live off the paychecks of the future. Calling a convention of states is the only way to get the job done realistically. There are already 3.8 million people with us on this. More every day. A lot of people worried about a runaway convention. That's not how this works. A runaway convention only happens if the left were to participate in the conventioner of states. That is not something that is likely to occur, considering that it is pretty much all people on the right who are interested in shoring up the Constitution against the excesses of the left. Join me and my friend Mark Meckler. Go to Convention ofstates.com slash ben to sign the petition today. That is conventionofstates.com slash ben. Go check it out right now. Convention of states.com slash ben and sign the petition. Let's get moving on this thing. All righty. So the breaking news this morning, Jussie Smollett, the actor from Empire, the guy who told one of the most ridiculous stories in the history of racial hoaxes, he has now been arrested. Sad trombone for Jussie Smollett. So Jussie Smollett, you will recall, told his original tale, and people jumped on it.

It was a modern-day lynching, according to both Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.

It was something that America had to apologize for, according to a bevy of Democrats,

including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

And then every Democrat sort of just disappeared.

As soon as it turned out that Jesse Smollett was hoaxing the entire time,

they threw a smoke bomb on the floor like Joe Bluth and then just ran away and said it's an illusion, Michael. It was pretty amazing. So,

Jesse Smollett has now been arrested. And the latest is that Jussie Smollett is really bad at this.

So Jussie Smollett, apparently a mediocre actor, mediocre to good actor from what we have heard. It turns out he's a better actor than a writer. So he is not going to get his writer-guild card anytime soon. The only thing that he wrote properly was the check to the people who are actually supposed to commit the racial hoax. Yes, I kid you not. Jussie Smollett personally wrote and signed a check to the two men who then carried out the fake racial beating

against Jussie Smollett. The only thing that he was missing was a for-the-hoax notation

in the what-for line on the check. According to CBS Local, accusing him of slapping the city in the

face, Chicago police announced Thursday that Empire actor Jussie Smollett had been charged with concocting

an attack in Streeterville because he was, quote, dissatisfied with his salary. Now, that's fascinating.

In and of itself, that is really fascinating. Here's the CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson saying

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