Jussie Smollett, the most privileged man in America.
None of this is normal—even for Crook County where I was an Assistant State’s Attorney. Educated guess: this hoax implicated someone very important who had pull with the State’s Attorney, and who very badly did not want to be implicated. https://t.co/HyACqBMGoW
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 27, 2019
The problem in the Smollett case is not so much that the sentence is light as it is that there's no conviction at all. They've allowed him to continue his hoax, helped him even.
— Bradley Campbell (@CampbellSocProf) March 27, 2019
Which was the point.
And this:
As for WHY they were dropped — you’ll recall State’s Attorney Kim Foxx recused herself from the case. She reportedly had asked cops to stand down at the behest of Tina Tchen — Michelle Obama’s former Chief of Staff and a friend of Jussie’s family.With friends in high places Smollett again proclaims he’s innocent despite the grand jury indictments on 16 felony counts that will now go unprosecuted.
This is Obama Country. https://t.co/xq7MYNbT3G
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) March 26, 2019
And isn’t it racist for Rahm Emanuel to call the Attorney’s Office dropping all charges “a whitewash of justice”?
More. Maybe GLAAD will honor him. After all, as previously noted:
“Jussie Smollett was victimized first in a hate-motivated and violent attack in Chicago and has since been doubly victimized as the subject of speculation by the media industry and broader culture,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis, said in a statement. … “GLAAD joined with Color of Change to condemn the racism and homophobia that fueled the physical violence against Jussie and today we double down on that stance, while also calling out a culture where LGBTQ people of color are too often the last to be believed.”
Unless some better explanation surfaces, here’s the lesson of this weird turn in the Smollett case:
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) March 26, 2019
You can contrive a hate crime, make it a national news, get caught and-if you are a well-connected celebrity-get off for $10K and have your record expunged and files sealed.
As National Review sums it up:Hmm: "The initial correspondence started when Michelle Obama's former CoS Tina Tchen, emailed Foxx to say that she was reaching out on behalf of Jussie's family to express "concerns" they had with how the investigation at that point was being handled"https://t.co/ManiBniMSb
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) March 27, 2019
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.