The Chicago police superintendent made no effort to hide his fury as he denounced Jussie Smollett for "despicable" conduct in falsely claiming to be the victim of a racist and homophobic assault. JUSSIE SMOLLETT RETURNS TO 'EMPIRE' SET AFTER ARREST OVER ALLEGED STAGED ATTACKIndeed, the president, who once called the supposed attack "horrible," tweeted about the smearing of his Make America Great Again followers. Fallon did do a followup post: "I deleted previous inaccurate tweets as more reports about Jussie Smollett come out. Don Lemon said he called Smollett every day to see how he was doing. Eddie Johnson called on Jussie Smollett to apologize.

Source: Fox News February 22, 2019 08:26 UTC