Tucker: How did anyone fall for this hoax?

>> Tucker: WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT." A TON GOING ON. WE COULD NOT RESIST NOTING THAT JUSSIE SMOLLETT WENT ON TRIAL FOR FAKING A HATE CRIME AX TACK. -- ATTACK. HE COULD SPEND TIME IN PRIN. HIS LAWYERS SAY HE IS THE REAL VICTIM BUT NO SOBER PERSON ON THE PLANET BELIEVES THAT. JUSSIE SMOLLETT FAKED A HATE CRIME. HOW DID ANYONE ANYWHERE EVER FALL FOR THIS STORY EVEN FOR A MOMENT? LOOKING BACK, PARTICULARLY IT WAS THE MOST OBVIOUS HOAX EVER PERPETRATED. IN CASE YOU FORGOT THE DETAILS, HERE'S WHAT SMOLLETT CLAIMED. HE LEFT HIS APARTMENT IN CHICAGO AT 2 A.M. TO PICK UP A SUBWAY SANDWICH. HE WALKED DOWN THE STREET AND 2 WHITE MEN SCREAMED IN HIS FACE FOR BEING BLACK AND GAY. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE EITHER ONE OF THOSE THINGS IN CHICAGO. THEY CALLED HIM THE "N" WORD AND PUNCHED HIM IN THE FACE AND POURED A CHEMICAL ON HIS BODY AND WRAPPED A NOOSE AROUND HIS NECK BECAUSE IT'S CHICAGO. THEY DIDN'T BOTHER TO ROB HIM. THEIR MOTIVE WAS POLITICAL. THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY IF A CITY THAT VOTED 80% FOR HILLARY CLINTON. THAT'S THE STORY JUSSIE SMOLLETT TOLD THE LIST WITH THE NOOSE HANGING AROUND HIS NECK. THE POLICE WERE SKEPTICAL. THE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WERE NOT SKEPTICAL. THE STORY HE TOLD WAS THE STORY THEY WERE LAWYERINGED TELLING. THAT SAME YEAR SEVERAL DEMOCRATIC SENATORS INCLUDING KAMALA HARRIS A FRIEND OF JUSSIE SMOLLETT SENT A LETTER TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CLAIMING THAT THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS TRUMP VOTERS WERE THE COUNTRY GREATEST THREAT. HARRIS ELECTED THE DOJ SAYING BLACK SUPREME SIFT IS A FABRICATED TERM -- INDOOR ONLY TRUMP VOTERS COMMIT HATE CRIMES. THE MEDIA WAS TELLING THAT EVER SINCE. ONE RECENT HEADLINE FROM CNN. HATE CRIMES REPORTS IN THE U.S. SURGE TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN 12 YEARS FBI SAYS. WHERE IS ALL OF THIS HATE COMING FROM? ACCORDING TO CNN IT'S ANTI-HIM ANTI-HIM -- ANTI-GOVERNMENT RHETORIC. KAMALA HARRIS TOLD US WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE PROBLEM. WHERE DO THESE NUMBERS COME FROM? ALL THESE LIES ARE TOLD. HERE'S HOW THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE UNDER JOE BIDEN CONCLUDED WE HAVE MORE HATE CRIMES THAN IN 12 YEARS. FIRST THEY CHANGED THE DEFINITION OF HATE CRIME. HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT FROM A CRIME? IT INCLUDE DISCRIMINATION BASED ON GENDER IDENTITY. THAT'S A CRIME. 10 THE FBI NOTICED THAT 90% OF LAW ENFORCEMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY REPORTED NO HATE CRIMES. MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT RACIST. THEY ARE KIND. THEY ARE AMERICANS. BUT THAT'S NOT A CONCLUSION WE CAN SELL TO CNN OR NPR. THE BIDEN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BADGERED LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS INTO REPORTING HATE CRIMES UNDER THE NEW EXPANDED DEFINITION OF HATE CRIMES. HATE CRIMES DIDN'T RISE IN FREQUENCY. THE NUMBER OF AGENCIES THAT WERE COMMANDED TO REPORT HATE CRIMES WENT UP DRAMATICALLY. THEN THE FBI ENCOURAGED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO PRESENT HATE CRIMES EVEN IF IT CAME FROM A FALLS REPORT. -- FALSE REPORT. MORE THAN 80% OF THE HATE CRIMES SUSPECTS WERE NEVER PROSECUTED. WHY? BECAUSE THEY ARE FAKE BUT STILL SHOW UP IN THE SYSTEM AND ALLOW NPR TO TELL YOU PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ANTHONY FAUCI ARE BEATING UP ASIANS ON THE STREET IN NEW YORK. IT'S YET ANOTHER LIE ENGINEERED BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND CARRIED FORTH BY THE MEDIA. THEY DID IT FOR POLITICAL REASONS. DOING IT FOR YEARS. THEY HAVE DONE IT FOR SO LONG THEY BELIEVED IT WAS TRUE. THAT IS WHY THEY TOOK JUSSIE SMOLLETT SERIOUSLY WHEN NO NORMAL PERSON WOULD. THE STORY WAS ABSURD FROM THE FIRST DAY, BUT THEY BELIEVED IT. HERE WAS THEIR RESPONSE. >> ACTOR AND MUSICIAN JUSSIE SMOLLETT FROM A HIT SHOW WAS ATTACKED AND BEATEN EARLY THIS MORNING IN CHICAGO. POLICE SAY IT COULD BE A HATE CRIME. >> THERE ARE MANY INDICATION OF A HATE CRIME. LOOKING FOR TWO SUSPECTS WEARING MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN HATS. >> THIS IS A HATE CRIME. >> JUSSIE SMOLLETT HAD A NOOSE ON HIS NECK THIS WEEK. >> THE MEDIA CAST SO MUCH DOUBT ON HIS STORY WHICH I FIND PERSONALLY OFFENSIVE. THAT A GAY BLACK MAN IS TARGETED AND HE BECOMES THE VICTIM OF PEOPLE'S DISBELIEF. >> HE SAID HIS ATTACKERS HURDLE RACIAL AND HOMOPHOBIC SLURS AT HIM. >> Tucker: JUSSIE SMOLLETT IN ADDITION TO BEING AN ACTOR IS A MUSICIAN. THIS IS AMERICA IN 2019. WE JUST HEARD FROM CNN. THAT'S TRUE BUT NOT ON THE WAY THEY MEANT IT. BY 2019 IN AMERICA, IT WAS GETTING DIFFICULT FOR THE AVERAGE BLACK PERSON TO GET BEATEN UP ON THE STREETS FOR THE WRONG SKIN COLOR. AS JUSSIE SMOLLETT FOUND OUT. IF YOU WANT RACISTS TO HANG A NOOSE AROUND YOUR NECK YOU HAVE TO BUY BODY BUILDERS TO DO IT AND THE GROWING RATE WAS $3500. THAT'S NOT CHEAP BUT IT'S A RARE COMMODITY. BUT ABC NEWS WAS NOT AWARE OF ANY OF THIS. IT'S ALWAYS 1958 IN MISSISSIPPI. SO TO ABC NEWS THIS SOUNDED PLAUSIBLE. JUSSIE SMOLLETT TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE OF IT. WATCH THIS. >> I SEE THE ATTACKER MASKED. HE SAID, THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY, [BLEEP] AND PUNCHES ME RIGHT IN THE FACE. >> THERE IS NO DOUBT IN YOUR MIND WHAT MOTIVATED THIS ATTACK? >> I CAN ONLY GO OFF OF THEIR WORDS. WHO SAYS [BLEEP], THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY? TIES A NEWS AROUND YOUR NECK AND POURS BLEACH ON YOU. >> Tucker: DOWNTOWN CHICAGO. SUCH A SEETHING HOT PEDOF SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP THAT THE PROGRESSIVE BLACK ACTORS CAN'T WALK DOWN THE STREET WITHOUT RISKING BEING LYNCHED. IT'S MAGA COUNTRY IN CHICAGO. WHO WOULD NOT LAUGH? ROBIN ROBERTS OF ABC DID NOT LAUGH AND SHE LEFT JUSSIE SMOLLETT KEEP ROLLING. >> WHY DO YOU THINK YOU WERE TARGETED? >> I CAN JUST ASSUME. I CAME OUT REALLY, REALLY HARD AGAINST 45. >> Tucker: THE HIGHEST PAID WOMAN IN TELEVISION. AS JUSSIE SMOLLETT EXPLAINED I CAME REALLY, REALLY HARD AGAINST 45, MEANING DONALD TRUMP. IF YOU LIVED IN AMERICA IN 2019 THAT MAKES SENSE. IN 2019 VERY FEW ACTORS CRITICIZED THE TRUMP REGIME. THE OSCARS WERE LIKE A MAGA RALLY. TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP FROM HOLLYWOOD WAS TO RISK YOUR VERY LIFE. WHITE SUPREMACISTS THUGS WOULD ATTACK YOU WITH NOOSES ON THE WAY BACK FROM SUBWAY. THAT'S WHEN WE REMEMBERED JUSSIE SMOLLETT FOR HIS COURAGE. HE WAS WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK. HE ADMITTED THAT HE VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. HIS FRIENDS PLEADED WITH HIM TO STAY QUIET AND SAFE. THAT'S THE KIND OF MAN JUSSIE SMOLLETT IS. HE WOULD NOT. KAMALA HARRIS DESCRIBED HIM AS A HERO. AND NANCY PELOSI THIS WAS A HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK AND ERIC FROM CALIFORNIA TOLD US THERE WERE COUNTLESS JUSSIE SMOLLETTS IN THIS FILTHY RACIST NATION. HATE CRIMES ARE HAPPENING FOR FREQUENTLY. CORY BOOKER DEMANDED ANTI--LYNCHING LEGISLATION AS IF WE DIDN'T ALREADY HAVE THAT. WITH THE LANDSCAPE WITH THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY CHEERING HIM, IS IT REALLY SURPRISING THAT JUSSIE SMOLLETT PUSHED THIS AS FAR AS HE COULD? NO. WHAT IS SURPRISING IS THAT NOTHING SMOLLETT SAID, NO MATTER HOW RIDICULOUS OR EMBARRASSING OR OBVIOUS NON-FACTUAL, NONE OF IT AROUSED EVEN THE SLIGHTEST HINT OF SKEPTICISM FROM ROBIN ROBERTS FROM ABC. JUSSIE SMOLLETT COULD HAVE CLAIMED TRUMP KILLED MY FAMILY AND TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN BURNED A CROSS IN MY YARD AND ROBIN ROBERTS WOULD HAVE HAD THE SAME REACTION. AWE-STRUCK LOVE. WATCH THIS. >> 2 WEEKS SINCE THAT NIGHT LEFT JUSSIE SMOLLETT BRUISED BUT NOT BROKEN. >> I STILL WANT TO BELIEVE THERE IS JUSTICE. IF I STOP BELIEVING THAT, [INAUDIBLE]. >> Tucker: HE IS BRUISED AND NOT BROKEN. EVENTUALLY THANK GOD THE POLICE TOOK OVER. ROBIN ROBERTS GAVE UP CONTROL OF THE STORY. THE COPS INTERVIEWED THE PEOPLE WHOM JUSSIE SMOLLETT HAD HIRED TO BEAT HIM UP. TWO BLACK GUYS. SMOLLETT PAID FOR THE NOOSE AND THE BLEACH. YOU HAVE TO ASK ONCE THE EVIDENCE ARRIVED, HOW DOES SUPPORTERS REACT LIKE KAMALA HARRIS? HERE SHE IS. >> WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO YOUR ORIGINAL SENTIMENT? >> WHAT TWEET? >> ABOUT SAYING IT'S A MODERN-DAY LYNCHING? JUSSIE SMOLLETT. >> HMMM. I WILL SAY THIS ABOUT THAT CASE. I THINK THE FACTS ARE STILL UNFOLDING. I AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE INITIAL ALLEGATION THAT HE MADE ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED. >> Tucker: WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADJUST YOUR HYSTERIA TO THE FACTS? ACKNOWLEDGE REALITY? NO. I DON'T THINK SO. STILL ABOUT WHITE RACISM AND MAGA COUNTRY IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO. A LOT OF THE PEOPLE ARE REALLY DUMB. THAT'S THEIR MAIN SECRET. AFTER THIS HAPPENED. KAMALA HARRIS'S ALLIES WORKED TO MAKE THE STORY GO AWAY. MICHELLE OBAMA AIDE WORKED OUT TO A PERSON TO HAVE CHARGES AGAINST JUSSIE SMOLLETT DISMISSED. YOU CAN GET MICHELLE OBAMA MAKE IT GO AWAY. THANKFULLY FOR THE JUSTICE JUSSIE SMOLLETT WANT THAT DECISION WAS REVERSED. NOW IN THE TRIAL WE ARE GOTH NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXTENT OF THE SCRAM. ON THE SAME DAY HE CRIED WITH ROBIN ROBERTS HE TEXTED ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO CLAIMS BEAT HIM UP BECAUSE HE IS BACK AND GAY. HERE'S WHAT HE SAID: -- THESE ARE THE PEOPLE HE PAID TO PUT A NEWS AROUND HIS TAPE. ON THE VIDEOTAPE HE CONDUCTED A DRY RUN THE DAY BEFORE IT HAPPENED. WE'RE NOT HEARING ABOUT THIS IN THE MEDIA. IT UNDERMINES THE CORE CLAIM THEY ARE MAKING WHICH IS PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR CANDIDATES THEY DON'T LIKE ARE DANGEROUS. PEOPLE OF A CERTAIN COLOR ARE DANGEROUS. THE VIOLENCE IN AMERICA IS COMMITTED BY THEIR POLITICAL ENEMIES, WHEN THAT'S A LIE. WE KNOW IT'S A LIE BECAUSE THERE ARE REAL NUMBERS OUT. THERE YOU ARE WELCOME TO LOOK THEM UP. THEY DO NOT TELL YOU THAT TRUMP VOTERS ARE THE ONES BEHIND THE CRIME WAVE CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS. ONCE

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Published: Thu Dec 02 2021

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TUCKER CARLSON: We could not resist noting that actor Jussie Smollett went on trial for faking a hate crime in Chicago back in 2019. Smollett faces six felony charges. He could spend three years in prison if he’s convicted on all of them. Smollett’s lawyers argue hilariously that he is the “real victim,” but no sober person on the planet believes that. Jussie Smollett faked a hate crime. The question is how did anyone, anywhere, ever fall for this story, even for a moment?