Obama Administration Officials Linked
to Jussie Smollett Debacle
unbelievable than the last.
Firstly, the idea of MAGA hat-wearing men targeting a gay, black man in one
of America's most liberal enclaves strains credulity.
Smollett then claimed his attack occurred on the coldest night in downtown
Chicago in three decades.
Somehow, his supposedly homophobic, Trump-loving assailants recognized
him from his show Empire (largely unknown to conservative audiences).
The suspected assailants, Nigerian-born brothers Olabinjo Osundairo and
Abimbola Osundairo are acquaintances of Smollett. The actor wrote them a
check after which they were seen on security cameras at a hardware store
purchasing ski masks and red hats used in Smollett's assault.
Finally, all of this occurred during salary negotiations on Empire. Smollett was
reportedly unhappy making $125,000 per episode.
Perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that Smollett got all charges dropped
in what one top prosecutor calls "a sickening abuse of prosecutorial discretion."
(National Review)
Then there’s this detail:
[State’s Attorney Kim] Foxx recused herself from the case last month
after revealing she had contact with Smollett’s representatives early on
in the investigation. She declined to provide details at the time.
Communications later released to the Tribune, however, showed Foxx
had asked Superintendent Johnson to turn over the investigation to the
FBI after she was approached by a politically connected lawyer about
the case.
Foxx reached out to Johnson after Tina Tchen, former chief of staff to
first lady Michelle Obama, emailed Foxx saying the actor’s family had
unspecified “concerns about the investigation.” Tchen, a close friend of
Mayor Emanuel’s wife, said she was acting on behalf of the “Empire”
actor and his family. A relative later exchanged texts with Foxx.
Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff calls up the state’s attorney, the
state’s attorney hands off the case to her assistant, and the assistant
gives Smollett the deal of the century. And all of this is so egregiously,
transparently corrupt that mayor and former Obama chief of staff Rahm
Emanuel is spitting hot fire over this, as is Obama’s former chief
strategist David Axelrod.
(Video H/T Fox News)
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