Trump brands Jussie Smollett’s actions as a ‘hate crime in reverse’

Donald Trump has described Jussie Smollett as a “con man” and likened the disgraced TV actor’s false police report about being attacked by Trump supporters to “a hate crime in reverse.”During an interview with Fox News on Friday, the former US president said Smollett – who was found guilty of disorderly conduct for the hate hoax this week – would be in “jail for 25 years for hate crimes for what he did and for what he said” if he was a Republ