Breitbart: “You’re just a charlatan, pretending to be a victim of a hate crime,” Judge James Linn said to Smollett. “Your very name has become an adverb for ‘lying.'” “Your performance on the witness stand can only be described as pure perjury,” the judge added. “You are now a permanently convicted felon.”
'Judge Linn added that Smollett’s “hypocrisy is astounding,” given that the actor has taken a keen interest in social justice issues for many years, yet staged a hate crime against himself, because he “really craved attention.”
'“I believe that you did damage to real hate crime victims,” the judge said to Smollett.
'“The officer asked you a simple question. And then you start to lie and haven’t stopped lying since,” the judge said. “You’ve been lying and lying and lying about this case, and that’s why you’re here today.”'
