Trump Wants Smollett To Answer To The MAGA Supporters He ‘Insulted’

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President Trump offered his two-cents on the arrest of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who now stands accused of faking a hate crime attack on himself.

In a tweet on Thursday, Trump asked “what about” all the Trump supporters Smollett “insulted with your racist and dangerous comments.” In his initial police report, Smollett claimed masked men attacked him, yelled racist and homophobic slurs and said “This is MAGA country.”

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  1. Fuck off. The fact that Smollett is a lying piece of shit doesn’t make your supporters any less racist. One black man lying doesn’t erase or excuse the millions of hateful pieces of shit who continue to support you.

  2. Yeah not a word from individual 1 about the domestic terrorist arrested yesterday in Maryland.

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Have we impeached this motherfucker yet?

    Shut up = it’s entirely inappropriate for a president to get into something like this.

  4. Avatar for hychka hychka says:

    If tramp apologized to every person he insulted he would die before finishing the first 25%.

  5. Avatar for dmcg dmcg says:

    So, a lying piece of shit calls another lying piece of shit a lying piece of shit.

    That hardly seems like news. I just treat Trump’s tweets like flatulence from a grandparent. You can’t stop them from doing it, but you can pretend it didn’t happen or just leave the room.

    The media breathlessly reporting that Trump has been an asshole - again - is just getting tiresome at this point.

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