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A jury convicted Smollett Thursday of five counts of disorderly conduct — for each separate time he was charged with lying to police in the days after the alleged attack that has been deemed a hate crime hoax.
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Watters later said leading Democrats’ comments about Smollett were “even worse,” pointing to how then-candidate Joe Biden decried that “homophobia and racism have no place on our streets.”
Then-Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., called the now-debunked attack a “modern-day lynching”, and similar claims were made by New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
Watters further criticized the White House after joe-biden” target=”_blank”>Press Secretary Jen Psaki<, a former White House spokeswoman under Trump, commented on “The Five” that the “hardest take” was Psaki’s claim about the former president.
“They say the right is going to use this as an example of why not to trust the media, and then Jen Psaki says this is all Trump’s fault,” she said.
“Her boss is the ultimate race-baiter,” McEnany said of Biden – pointing out that the current president has repeatedly injected race into his politics.
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She pointed to an infamous remark at a 2012 campaign event near Martinsville, Va., when he told a substantially Black audience that the fiscal policies of then-Republican candidate Mitt Romney would “put y’all back in chains.”
McEnany added that the White House should also not direct such comments at Trump given Biden’s 2020 claim to a New York City radio program that African-Americans who consider voting for the Florida Republican “ain’t Black.”
“Smollett is now a proven liar after the con artist was convicted of 5 of 6 charges for staging his own hate crime and lying to police about it,” Watters added.
“It was clear to any sensible person from the start that the facts of this hate hoax didn’t add up. But that didn’t matter to the media trying to push a racial narrative to divide the nation.”
