Don Le Mon throws pal Jussie Smollett under the news van: calls him a liar

Gay actors Jussie Smollet and Don Lemon [a host on the Compromised News Network] used to be good friends, if you know what I mean. Not so much anymore now that Smollett was convicted of staging a  hate crime targeting White Trump supporters. Lemon soured on Smollett and has thrown him under the CNN news van calling him a liar just hours after the conviction. 

But Don "forgot" to mention his own role in the poorly scripted, poorly directed drama starring Smollett and two brothers, Abimbola "Abel" and Olabinjo "Ola," and its lack of journalistic ethics.

Lemon spoke about Smollett's guilty verdict on his barely watched show on Thursday night during a brief segment with Joey Jackson, a legal analyst [because Jeffrey Toobin was evidently busy doing something else]. 

The CNN host said Smollett “had to make up too many lies” to try explaining his fake story about a pair of Trump-loving White supremacists [Lemon didn't use that term, he just implied it] who beat him up and put a noose around his neck [at 2 a.m. during a polar vortex] in Chicago in 2019. The pair also wore MAGA-like hats [real ones were hard to come by in Chicago] and poured a liquid substance on him.

“I guess he got caught up in that because he took the stand himself. He got angry with the prosecutor as the prosecutor poked holes in his story, calling the only other witnesses liars,” Lemon said of his former friend who, the "journalist" initially claimed, was an innocent victim of a hate crime prior to any evidence being revealed.

Lemon then correctly went on to say Smollett had potentially made it harder for “legitimate victims of hate crimes” to be taken seriously. 

And this is why it makes sense to charge people who fake hate crimes to be charged with a hate crime, just like it makes sense of anyone who falsely accuses someone of a crime to be charged with the same crime.

His fair weather friend comments came almost immediately after a jury found Smollett guilty of five of six counts of felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.

And still Lemon never mentioned his involvement in the case in which he warned Smollett that the police did not believe his story from the start and were investigating. 

This is journalistic malpractice and Lemon should join his other good friend, Fredo Cuomo, on the unemployment line, or at least to his place on the Hamptons to commiserate their woes.

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During his testimony [because the idiot took the stand] Smollett admitted he knew the cops doubted his account of the story after getting a text message from Lemon. So apparently, Lemon took this poorly and attacked his pal's veracity, leaving out the part about his text messaging.

During his show’s segment on Thursday night, Jackson, the legal analyst guest called Smollett’s testimony “devastating” for his case.

Smollett is probably not going to do hard time in the slammer and instead will do community service, even though he perjured himself on the stand.

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