Former Empire actor, Jussi Smollett, has been convicted on charges he faked in anti-gay

racist attack on himself.

Nearly three years ago, and then Lodgeskoggle police about it, and hindsight he staged

attack with so obviously a hoax, it's hard to believe that so many progressives were

completely taken in by it.

And unless of course they just wanted to believe that America is an awful racist place.

I'll give you my take on the verdict in tonight's Hold Align.

Welcome to Hold Align, I'm Buck Sexton.

Jussi looks like he might be going to prison for a little while here.

Special prosecutor Dan Webb following the verdict said, well, that Jussi did exactly what

the prosecutors said he did, which is true.

During my closing argument, I told the jury that I thought the evidence was overwhelming

that in fact Mr. Smollett had faked a hate crime and then lied to the police about it,

and then compounded his crimes by lying to the jury during the course of this trial

and insulting their intelligence.

That's what I told the jury in my closing argument.

With the resounding verdict we just received from this jury after one day of deliberations

in which they found Mr. Smollett guilty and virtually all charges of doing exactly what

we said he did, of reporting a fake crime to the Scargopluke Department as a real crime,

that verdict was a resounding message by the jury that in fact Mr. Smollett did exactly

what we said he did.

Exactly what they said he did.

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