{"id":85329,"date":"2021-12-13T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T09:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=85329"},"modified":"2021-12-13T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T09:32:07","slug":"jussie-takes-the-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/12\/13\/jussie-takes-the-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Jussie Takes the Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The jury found <strong>Jussie Smollett <\/strong>guilty of five out of six charges. &nbsp;Surprise, surprise.&nbsp; But the dish is in the details.&nbsp; During his time on the stand, Jussie threw numerous people under the bus.&nbsp; He claims <strong><em>Empire<\/em><\/strong> creator <strong>Lee Daniels <\/strong>\u201cfat shamed\u201d him &nbsp;\u2013 which is why Jussie hired <strong>Abel Osundairo <\/strong>to become his \u201ctrainer\u201d.&nbsp; Smollett says that the relationship with Abel was not romantic, but admits they got high (cocaine and pot), went to a bathhouse, made out, and \u201cmasturbated together\u201d.&nbsp; I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s all that happened.&nbsp; If that hot Nigerian trainer was high, naked and aroused, I believe Jussie would have been on that\u2026literally!<\/p>\n<p>Smollett also claims <strong>Don Lemon <\/strong>kept him in the loop regarding the police investigation of the so-called \u201chate crime\u201d.&nbsp; If true, many believe Lemon should face the same punishment <strong>Chris Cuomo <\/strong>did for feeding his brother information.&nbsp;&nbsp; Speaking of loops, we saw the \u201cnoose\u201d which was around Jussie\u2019s neck \u2013 correction, which he allegedly took off from around his neck, and then put back on when the police arrived.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure there are different kinds of nooses.&nbsp; This appeared to be twine you\u2019d use to fly a kite\u2026or what a bakery would use to wrap up your cupcakes.&nbsp; Smollett won\u2019t be sentenced until next month, but the presumption is he\u2019ll skirt jail time and face a hefty fine and community service.&nbsp; He still has to deal with the civil suit \u2013 the City of Chicago wants to be reimbursed for the cost of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury found Jussie Smollett guilty of five out of six charges. &nbsp;Surprise, surprise.&nbsp; But the dish is in the details.&nbsp; During his time on the stand, Jussie threw numerous people under the bus.&nbsp; He claims Empire creator Lee Daniels \u201cfat shamed\u201d him &nbsp;\u2013 which is why Jussie hired Abel Osundairo to become his \u201ctrainer\u201d.&nbsp;<\/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-85329","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\/85329","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=85329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85339,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85329\/revisions\/85339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}