{"id":4757,"date":"2019-02-25T04:04:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2019-02-25T04:04:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:04:40","slug":"the-case-against-jussie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/02\/25\/the-case-against-jussie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Jussie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect we\u2019ll be talking about&nbsp;<strong>Jussie Smollett&nbsp;<\/strong>for weeks\/months to come.&nbsp; And the story keeps getting worse.&nbsp; Now that the details have taken over mainstream media, I almost don\u2019t feel the need to enumerate every twist and turn.&nbsp; Suffice it to say, he did it.&nbsp; There, I said it.&nbsp; I hate to say it, but that\u2019s that.&nbsp; Once the grand jury sent the case to trial, I knew there was obviously some sort of proof we didn\u2019t know about.&nbsp; And, of course, more has come out.&nbsp; Like what, you may ask?&nbsp; First, there\u2019s the text message to one of the Nigerian brothers sent three days before the attack saying, \u201cMight need your help on the low.&nbsp; You around to meet up and talk face to face?\u201d&nbsp; Perhaps more damning is the personal check for $3,500 which he wrote to the brothers.&nbsp; Doesn\u2019t he watch&nbsp;<strong><em>Dateline<\/em><\/strong>?&nbsp; You never write a personal check!&nbsp; By the by, his text message history also showed that since the spring of 2018, Jussie was getting MDMA from the brothers \u2013 not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that.&nbsp; And, while not germane to this case, it does tickle me every time the media refers to the \u201c<em>Subway&nbsp;<\/em>restaurant\u201d \u2013 like it\u2019s got a&nbsp;<em>Michelin&nbsp;<\/em>rating!<\/p>\n<p><em>FOX<\/em>, which had initially stood behind Jussie, is now declining all comment.&nbsp; While&nbsp;<strong><em>Empire<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;had insisted they would not alter their planned trajectory for the show, they are now writing Smollett out of the last two episodes of the season.&nbsp; Once again, I reiterate that someone is innocent until proven guilty \u2013 even though I\u2019ve already said that I believe he did it.&nbsp; And I will be shocked if the proof doesn\u2019t bear that out.&nbsp; What will happen next?&nbsp; I cannot imagine Jussie wants this to go to trial, so I suspect some sort of plea deal is being floated to the DA.&nbsp; If that doesn\u2019t work, he may simply plead guilty.&nbsp; How will he go on after that?&nbsp; More to the point, will he.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect we\u2019ll be talking about&nbsp;Jussie Smollett&nbsp;for weeks\/months to come.&nbsp; And the story keeps getting worse.&nbsp; Now that the details have taken over mainstream media, I almost don\u2019t feel the need to enumerate every twist and turn.&nbsp; Suffice it to say, he did it.&nbsp; There, I said it.&nbsp; I hate to say it, but that\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}