Federal grand jury reportedly already convened, issued multiple subpoenas on Jussie Smollett

Federal grand jury reportedly already convened, issued multiple subpoenas on Jussie Smollett fake mail threat sent to Fox 1/18/19

If the remarkable grassroots journalists at CWBChicago are correct (as they have been all along), Jussie Smollett has a lot more to worry about than the state rap of a class four felony of making a false police report. If he was indeed responsible for the sending of a letter to the Fox Chicago studios where Empire is produced, he has triggered federal charges that carry hard time. Importantly, the feds don't parole early to relieve overcrowded prisons the way the Great State of Illinois does.

You see, using the mail to make a threat that can be seen as a terroristic threat — even to oneself — is no small deal to Uncle Sam. And (don't laugh!) it brings in the most underrated federal law enforcement agency of all: the Postal Inspectors. Most people don't realize what a fearsome agency this is. CWBChicago recounts an anecdote about their tenacity, work ethic, and success rate, and it jibes with what I have learned about them. I happened to catch this excellent movie about the work of the Postal Inspectors, starring Louis Gossett, and hope it can be found on one of the digital streaming services, or maybe even run on one of the cable networks, when the federal case goes forward, if it does.

Using the U.S. Mail in furtherance of this hoax may have been the biggest blunder of all. Nobody wants the feds to Go Postal (Inspector) on him.

On Friday, Jan. 18th, a letter was dropped into a mailbox in Chicago's southwest suburbs.

The envelope was addressed in childlike scrawl to Empire TV star Jussie Smollett at Cinespace Studios, a West Side production facility that the Fox program calls home. "MAGA" — the acronym for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" — was sloppily written in the return address space.

Four days later and about eleven miles away, the letter found its way to Smollett.

The letter, which was reported to the Chicago cops, triggered a federal investigation even before the hoax attack was carried out.

>>Nobody of any race, sex, color or identity can approve of this type of thing.<<

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What are you talking about?
Have you not noticed how our great president has been treated ever since his election after all the good he has accomplished for our country? Injustice will reign in America as long as we have politicians and MSM “reporters” who rather desire the destruction of our country before giving PDJT the respect and support he so richly deserves. The smollett affair has an ant-Trump element in it. That’s why Smollett will win.

Clearly there are masses of people out to destroy the Republic. But that doesn't mean widespread approval of lawlessness. Even Trump haters are capable of punishing this kind of criminal mischief. Federal Grand Juries and Federal Prosecutors are not to be messed with (unless you are extremely highly placed or very well connected, which he is not - they are running away from him).

Here from today's FR headlines, anti-Trump IRS agent criminal charged for his misdeed: IRS agent admits giving Michael Cohen's financial records to Stormy lawyer

>>Clearly there are masses of people out to destroy the Republic. But that doesn’t mean widespread approval of lawlessness.<<

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By not building the wall there IS a widespread approval of lawlessness.(Wait for the lawlessness that will ensue when that huge caravan, that’s on its way, assaults our non-existant southern border). Those that resist the building of the wall destroy our national security and are no less than traitors.

Well I don’t entirely disagree with you, I take a more nuanced view of things. There are plenty of people who oppose the border security barriers, wall or fence or whatever - those people are insane. The human slave trafficking, sexual abuse of children, kidnapping, drug smuggling and the potential for terrorists and hardened criminals is just overwhelmingly documented and 100% crazy not to stop it.

I think, in fact, that Trump is not doing a good job selling this issue. He lost his brother to substance abuse, so in a way I think it is partly personal. And imo he should not be ashamed to talk about that side of it (he did during the debates). His view has nothing to do with the stupid idea that he ‘hates Mexicans’ or whatever idiotic thing the left makes up. But, imo he would win the moral high ground and approval by double-digits if he explained all this every time he talked about it (the way he did at the SOTU). Amnesty International says 60% of women are sexually assaulted trekking into the USA from South/Central America, and roughly 10,000 children were kidnapped! They make the trek because they are told the border is wide open. People forced into slavery, hardened murders cross at whim, and of course the thousands of fentanyl deaths last year among these other issues. It is a completely indefensible and illogical argument to say we should not try to stop it.

But I fail to draw the direct link to Smollet. He is an American born American. He sent powder laced mail. He concocted a hate crime with a hate crime (even though I oppose hate crime laws, I accept that some crimes are motivate by hate - and his was!). These cannot be excused because he is a black gay millionaire and I don’t think many African Americans or gay people would approve of this sheer recklessness and idiocy no matter how much they may hate Trump.

On the question of the border, the left play upon the empathy most people have for the poor and the economic migrants who want a better life. But if Trump made his case more forcefully and clearly he would imo convince the vast majority of Americans. A wall, with a lot of doors.

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