Jussie Smollett, who fooled the media and faced the backlash, beats the system

The moral of the Jussie Smollett case is that another well-connected celebrity skates without so much as an expression of regret. (Associated Press)

I’m not saying Jussie Smollett should have gotten 10 years in prison.

If he had pleaded guilty, paid a big fine and got stuck with community service, I wouldn’t have lost any sleep.

But what happened in Chicago was an absolute travesty of justice.

Axios is calling it “one of the biggest non-Trump stories of 2019.” But like so much else in our culture, it is very much a Trump story.

It was no minor detail that the “Empire” actor claimed he was beaten up on the street by two thugs proclaiming the neighborhood “MAGA country.” That, along with their supposed noose, was central to depicting the incident as an anti-black, anti-gay hate crime perpetrated by Trump zealots.

And it was all a lie, of course.

But now Smollett will never be prosecuted. He will never be held to account for how he traumatized his city and betrayed his supporters.

READ THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT’S JUSSIE SMOLLETT CASE FILES

He doesn’t even have to admit that he constructed a damnable lie.

The charges have suddenly, mysteriously, conveniently been dropped.

Rahm Emanuel is outraged, as is the city’s police superintendent.

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