Leftist Privilege Saves Jussie Smollett

Justice? Flynn Wiped Out, Smollett Wiped Clean.

RUSH: The police chief in Chicago is furious. The police superintendent, Eddie Johnson, who announced these charges against Smollett in the first place. … the Chicago DA, the state attorney, Kim Foxx, who had recused herself from this case, has announced that charges against Jussie Smollett have been dropped, and the police were not consulted. They didn’t know. — it appears that this has nothing to do with being a defect in the evidence. It has nothing to do with the fact that what he was accused of being, or doing, didn’t happen or that they can’t prove it.

It, rather, appears to be, as my friend Andy McCarthy referred it moments ago on Fox, as an act of mercy on the part of the district attorney, deciding he’d been through enough. That he had paid $10,000, he’s already performed significant amounts of wonderful work for the community of Chicago, and so they are just deciding to drop charges.

the state charges have been totally dropped, and they will never appear on his record.

But not because they couldn’t prove it and not because he didn’t do it, but rather, apparently, because he’s already paid a significant price, $10,000 and community service. So it was obviously some kind of a massive negotiation between Smollett’s lawyers and the state attorney, district attorney in Chicago, Cook County state attorney. Kim Foxx is the name.

And this follows one day after this fiasco of the Mueller investigation was exposed for what it is and about which there is going to be much more today. Because this by no means should in any way, shape, manner, or form considered to be over.

So we didn’t get what some people thought Smollett should do, that he should have apologized. Maybe not, because he doesn’t want to admit that the whole thing was made up. But apologize for the hassle, apologize for what happened, what he put the community through because of this. There wasn’t any of that. He continued to portray himself as a victim here. So now the question’s gonna be:

Why did they actually drop the charges?

The police superintendent is not only just dropping the charges. They’re expunging the record. There will be no record of this whatsoever. Now, there’s a message that’s being sent here with this. Let us be bold and let us be truthful here. Any leftist activist, to whatever degree deranged and imbalanced — egged on by people like Maxine Waters — can now fake hate crimes against Trump supporters. They can then claim a fake lynching by Trump supporters. They can then lie to the police. Then they can lie to the media.

Then they can lie to the American people. They can cause a media frenzy against Trump supporters. They can plead not guilty and apparently walk away scot-free! Can you say “leftist privilege in the Cook County legal system”? This kid faked a hate crime against Trump supporters because he didn’t like his cut of $125,000 per episode, and it’s more than that. The guy is a leftist political activist. Then he lied to the police. So what happened? What and which officials in Chicago played a role in wiping this off the books? How did this happen?

I’m wondering if anybody Chicago, once this trial began, if anybody feared civil unrest? I wonder if they were concerned that they might lose control of the city when the trial began. Who knows?

Well, let’s see. If Smollett insists that he told the truth, then what does that mean? Well, that means the Chicago police are lying. That means that the superintendent Eddie Johnson is lying. But it doesn’t just mean that. It means that the Chicago police must be corrupt as hell and that the state attorney for Cook County, Kim Foxx, decided she had to clean it up by dropping all the charges because for some reason the Chicago police are corrupt.

So I guess Kim Foxx and others at the state attorney’s office in Cook County would rather have it look like the police tried to frame Jussie Smollett rather than put Jussie Smollett on trial. I mean, that’s the inescapable conclusion of this.

Now, reverse the situation. Imagine if a white Trump supporter had staged a hate crime on himself by a couple of black guys, and imagine that there was video surveillance of the black guys buying the stuff necessary to beat up the white Trump supporter. And then to discover that it was a hoax and he was unrepentant. Would the Chicago, Cook County state attorney have given this mythical character any mercy?

The state attorney in Cook County hates Donald Trump and cannot stand the fact that Mueller came back with no collusion and that there wasn’t any obstruction and that Trump is gonna get away scot-free. And if Trump’s gonna get away with it, then the hell if Smollett’s going to jail! We’re not gonna put the black guy in jail if Trump’s getting away it.

We are learning more, as is understandable and predictable, about people involved in the decision in Chicago, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. Kim Foxx is the state attorney here who has dropped charges against the actor Jussie Smollett. I want to read to you from the official biography on Foxx under a section in which she is described to have “undertaken substantial reform.”

“Foxx’s accomplishments include overhauling the state’s attorney’s office’s ‘Conviction Integrity Unit, resulting in overturned convictions in over 20 cases, including the first-ever mass exoneration in Cook County for 15 men whose convictions stemmed from misconduct by a Chicago police officer.’”

Now, what can we glean from this? Well, that she may have a problem with the cops. And, of course, if you are a leftist, you probably do have problems with the cops. She also, in addition to not liking the cops, she doesn’t like ICE. Kimberly Foxx “urged Chicagoans who want to show their support for immigrants to escort witnesses to court and do what they can to ‘put their bodies in front’ if Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents try to seize immigrants.”

So the Cook County state attorney was advocating for Chicago citizens to shield and protect illegal immigrants from being apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

And then there is this from the Chicago Sun-Times: “Former Michelle Obama Aide, Smollett Relative Reached Out to Kim Foxx.” Well. Would we be surprised to learn the Obamas might be involved in this? I wouldn’t. “Police Union Wants Federal Investigation Into Kim Foxx’s Handling of Smollett Case.”

“Police union wants federal investigation into Kim Foxx’s handling of the case after she exchanged texts with Smollett’s relatives. Just days after Jussie Smollett told Chicago police he had fought off a pair of attackers who targeted him in an apparent hate crime, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx tried to persuade Police Supt. Eddie Johnson to turn the investigation over to the FBI.”

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