{"id":1123037,"date":"2021-12-15T20:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1123037"},"modified":"2021-12-15T20:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:13:39","slug":"chicago-pastor-im-glad-jussie-smollett-got-caught-in-his-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-pastor-im-glad-jussie-smollett-got-caught-in-his-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Pastor: &#039;I&#039;m Glad&#039; Jussie Smollett &#039;Got Caught in His Lie&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-pastor-im-glad-jussie-smollett-got-caught-in-his-lie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1123037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A Chicago pastor says he is \u201cglad\u201d that disgraced actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad he got caught in his lie,\u201d Pastor Corey Brooks said of Smollett\u2019s guilty verdict during his latest&nbsp;episode of <em>Rooftop Revelations<\/em>, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6286785294001#sp=show-clips\">posted<\/a> by Fox News.&nbsp;\u201cRace is not the greatest problem that we face in America. The greatest problem that we face in America is just learning how to be more neighborly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>During the episode, Brooks brought up a January 2019 article by&nbsp;<em>GQ Magazine<\/em>, which read, \u201cThe racist, homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is the far-right America\u2019s endgame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow, I wonder how they must feel now, after supporting a man who tried to racially divide all of America,\u201d Brook said of&nbsp;<em>GQ Magazine<\/em>.&nbsp;\u201cSupporting someone who was trying to not make America better, but was looking at all the evil intentions, and trying to use them to divide us even further apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.6805111821086\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This editor&#8217;s note on this GQ opinion piece on Jussie Smollett is great: We were wrong to title it &#8220;The Racist, Homophobic Attack on Jussie Smollett Is **Far-Right** America&#8217;s Endgame.&#8221; It&#8217;s ALL of America&#8217;s endgame!!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FVdA4ivj8b\">https:\/\/t.co\/FVdA4ivj8b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bD3AtV993U\">pic.twitter.com\/bD3AtV993U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerylBier\/status\/1465342582888837126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Smollett was found guilty of five counts of felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report after he hired two brothers from Nigeria to stage a fake hate crime against him.<\/p>\n<p>The class 4 felony carries a maximum sentence of up to 3 years in prison for each count \u2014 but experts believe the actor will likely get probation and be sentenced to community service if convicted. Smollett was acquitted of just one count of disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19148474\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21343848586674-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19148474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21343848586674-1.jpg\" alt width=\"1723\" height=\"987\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(AP Graphic)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The pastor also slammed Smollett for \u201cusing the&nbsp;race card, of all things, in Chicago, where we have so much stuff going on with all the violence, with all the shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Smollett] comes to our city and uses the race card to divide us, not to help us deal with the issues that we\u2019re faced with, not to help us deal with the violence that we\u2019re dealing with every single day, but uses the race card to further divide us as an American people,\u201d Brooks affirmed of the actor\u2019s hate crime hoax.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Terrence Howard, who played the father of Smollett\u2019s character on&nbsp;<em>Empire<\/em>, echoed the pastor\u2019s sentiments during a recent appearance on the <em>Mark Vargas Mark My Words&nbsp;<\/em>radio show,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/12\/13\/jussie-smolletts-empire-co-star-terrence-howard-he-was-found-guilty-you-have-to-respect-that\/\">telling<\/a>&nbsp;Vargas that the \u201cspark\u201d Smollett\u2019s hate crime story created could have \u201cset the entire world on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago pastor says he is \u201cglad\u201d that disgraced actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct. \u201cI\u2019m glad he got caught in his lie,\u201d Pastor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}