Jussie Smollett insisted to a Chicago courtroom today that the violent attack against him in early 2019 “was no hoax.”On the stand in his own defense, the ex-Empire star called the assault by men hurling punches, homophobic and racial slurs and “MAGA country,” to be “something out of Looney Tune adventures.”Asked directly by special prosecutor Daniel Webb in cross examination on Monday if he wanted the police to treat his attack like a “hate crime,” Smollett replied that he “wanted police to solve a crime that had happened to me.”Holding to his story under Webb’s sometimes intense questioning, the once widely heralded Smollett said that it was “fully false, 100 percent false” that he planned or paid anyone to stage an attack on him.Facing
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