Injustice warriors mocked
Dems now mum
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are among the Democrats who are being widely mocked for their silence following Jussie Smollett’s guilty verdict — after initially throwing their support behind the actor.
Biden’s and Harris’ old tweets — including one in which the veep described the bogus attack as a “modern-day lynching” — resurfaced after the former “Empire” star was convicted on Thursday of staging a hate crime against himself and filing a false police report.
Shortly after Smollett claimed in 2019 that two Trump-loving bigots beat him up and tied a noose around his neck in Chicago, Biden — who had yet to announce his bid for president — declared that he was standing with the actor.
“What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country,” Biden tweeted in January 2019. “We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie.”
Among other Democrats who denounced the supposedly “racist” and “homophobic” attack on Twitter were Sen. Cory Booker (NJ) and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Bronx/ Queens) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.).
The tweets began recirculating Thursday as conservatives called for retractions.
“Joe Biden defended Jussie Smollett. Kamala Harris defended Jussie Smollett. Bernie Sanders defended Jussie Smollett. Elizabeth Warren defended Jussie Smollett. Those who defend a fraud are frauds themselves,” tweeted Andrew Pollack, whose daughter died in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla.
GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel tweeted: “Kyle Rittenhouse, Jussie Smollett . . . Biden never misses an opportunity to play politics and prejudge cases before he has all the facts.”
Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that Smollett got the justice he had been seeking.
“I’m just happy to live in a country where people will go to jail for attacking a gay black man . . . There’s absolutely no place for that s--t in America, or anywhere else, and I am happy the perpetrator was brought to justice,” he tweeted.