How did hate crime-huckster Jussie Smollett get away with it? All crooked roads in Chicago lead back to the Obamas. On Tuesday, as part\u2026<\/b>
\nHow did hate crime-huckster Jussie Smollett get away with it? All crooked roads in Chicago lead back to the Obamas.
On Tuesday, as part of a sealed deal, the Illinois state attorney\u2019s office dismissed 16 felony charges brought by a grand jury against the Trump-hating actor, who blamed phantom white MAGA supporters for a brutal racist \u201cassault\u201d that left him with a teensy-weensy scratch under his eye.
The day before the \u201cattack,\u201d Smollett\u2019s two bodybuilding friends were caught on surveillance tape buying costumery (red hat, ski masks, bandanas, sunglasses and gloves) that just happened to match Smollett\u2019s descriptions of what his still-fugitive assailants were wearing.
But I guess there\u2019s no use crying over spilled bleach.
To atone for the-fakery-that-shall-not-be-named, Smollett performed 18 hours of \u201ccommunity service\u201d with Jesse Jackson\u2019s PUSH Coalition and forfeited his $10,000 bond.
And that brings us to the Democratic operatives behind the scenes. Two weeks ago, Chicago Sun-Times reporters discovered that Obama crony and deep-pocketed campaign finance mega-bundler Tina Tchen had inserted herself in the investigation.
Tchen texted Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx just three days after the incident \u201con behalf of Jussie Smollett and family who I know\u201d to express \u201cconcerns.\u201d She suggested that Foxx lean on Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to yield to the FBI, and she shared an unidentified Smollett family member\u2019s cellphone number with Foxx.
Foxx texted back that she had done as requested and that Chief Johnson was \u201cgoing to make the ask.\u201d The unidentified relative rejoiced: \u201cOMG this would be a huge victory.\u201d
Only after Foxx meddled did she recuse herself and name an underling to take over \u2014 which rendered her kabuki recusal meaningless to veteran observers of the \u201cCrook\u201d County criminal-justice system. So, who was the Smollett relative with all the right (or left) connections? Follow the trail:
To minimize Tchen\u2019s role in the Obamas\u2019 political lives as merely an \u201caide\u201d is journalistic malpractice. As I have reported:
Tchen has made quite the career out of exploiting her Obama connections, including cushy spots on VICE\u2019s Diversity and Inclusion Board, Uber\u2019s #MeToo advisory board and the Grammys\u2019 task force for inclusion and diversity. But those plum jobs and her role in Smollett\u2019s Folly all pale in comparison to her newest gig: playing watchdog over the Southern Poverty Law Center.
After decades of manufacturing \u201chate\u201d against peaceful, law-abiding conservatives, sharia opponents, Christian activists and immigration hawks, the SPLC is in chaos amid long-brewing strife over internal gender and racial discrimination \u2014 not to mention a slew of outside defamation lawsuits. Fresh off assisting one celebrity hate-crime huckster, Tchen will now be doing damage control for the granddaddy of all racial-hoax rackets.
Like I said: Minority liberal race-hustling has its privileges.
I would advise Americans sick and tired of the crony state and its smear merchants to do all they can to prevent Tchen and the Obama machine from getting their grubby hands on the $PLC\u2019s half-billion-dollar endowment.
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