She contributed to the hatred against Pence, Trump and supporters.
Via Daily Wire:
Two days after “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett claimed he was the victim of a hate crime perpetrated by two white supporters of President Donald Trump, actress Ellen Page appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and blamed Vice President Mike Pence for the attack.
“We have a media that’s saying it’s a debate whether or not what just happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime. It’s absurd. It isn’t a debate,” Page told Colbert and millions of viewers.
“It feels impossible to not feel this way now with the president and Vice President Mike Pence, who wishes I couldn’t be married,” she continued. “Let’s be clear. The vice president of America wishes I didn’t have the love with my wife. … He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the governor of Indiana, and I think the thing we need to know and I hope my show Gaycation did this in terms of connecting the dots in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie, I don’t know him personally, I send all of my love.”
“Connect the dots,” she said. “This is what happens. If you are in a position of power and you hate people and you want to cause suffering to them, you go through the trouble, you spend your career trying to cause suffering, what do you think is going to happen?”
This is, of course, utter nonsense, particularly after new evidence has led authorities to arrest and charge Mr. Smollet for filing a false police report, allegedly paying two African American men to stage the attack on him.
With all this new information, surely Ms. Page is sorry for jumping to conclusions, sorry for telling millions of Americans that Pence is responsible for the attack because of his Christian faith, right?
Wrong.