Tina Chen and the Obamas---thick as thieves.
Posted on 03/29/2019 5:48:20 AM PDT by SJackson
As the Chicago Sun-Times reported, “Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff said Wednesday that her behind-the-scenes communications with Cook County’s top prosecutor about the case involving actor Jussie Smollett were not intended at influencing the outcome of the case.”
The former chief of staff is Tina Tchen, who said in a statement: “I know members of the Smollett family based on prior work together. Shortly after Mr. Smollett reported he was attacked, as a family friend, I contacted Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who I also know from prior work together. My sole activity was to put the chief prosecutor in the case in touch with an alleged victim’s family who had concerns about how the investigation was being characterized in public.”
It wasn’t clear if Tina Chen, 63, was actually representing anyone in the Smollett family. On the other hand, with her BA from Harvard and JD from Northwestern, Tchen is well qualified to represent top-drawer clients.
“A high-powered lawyer, Tina’s career accomplishments have established her as a powerful advocate for gender equality,” explains the Harry Walker Agency, the “world’s leading speakers’ bureau” representing Jeff Flake and Stacey Abrams, “a dynamic in-demand duo,” along with Ben Rhodes, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and former UN boss Ban Ki-Moon, among many others.
As the agency notes, Tina is “spearheading the $13.7 million (with a goal to raise $15 million) Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which is administered by the National Women’s Law Center’s Legal Network for Gender Equity, and will connect female victims of sexual harassment with lawyers.” Tchen’s profile notes her White House service as chief of staff for the First Lady and special assistant to the president Barack Obama, but there’s more about Tina.
“Energetic, authentic and engaging on stage, she empowers the next generation to raise their voices and take action now to secure a better tomorrow for women and minorities across the country and world.” Who better to intervene on behalf of POTUS 44 pal Jussie Smollett and his family?
As Patrick Howley of Big League Politics observes, Tchen intervened with Kim Foxx to convince the judge to drop charges. Howley notes that “George Soros’s money largely helped put Foxx in office” and that the “pro-Bernie Sanders group Reclaim Chicago is sweet on Foxx as a politician.”
According to Reclaim Chicago: “The Jussie Smollett case is a sad commentary on our celebrity obsessed society as well the fact that real hate crimes against Black LGBTQ in Chicago each year go without the same attention from police and the media.” Nearly 30 percent of hate crimes were against African Americans, the group claims, and “the next most frequent targets involved sexual orientation at 17.6 percent.” The victims “are often not believed by police and are more likely the victims of police violence.” So the Smollett hoax plays into the anti-cop narrative, but the story is more layered.
Howley also dug up a 2017 Instagram post from Jussie Smollett’s sister Jurnee Smollett-Bell. She had been invited to introduce Senator Obama during the primaries, when the odds were stacked against him. He said he was “too young, too black, too different” and he was “an other.” Jurnee worked the phone banks for the candidate and as he left office she wrote “You will go down as the greatest president who did the most with the least help from his ‘congressional leaders.’ So I thank you for being you.” This could have been the Smollett family member on whose behalf the dynamic, high-powered Tina Tchen intervened.
Jussie Smollett already had an agent but proved something of a bust as the producer of a hoax. He mailed fake letters to himself and paid two Nigerian men $3500, by check, to pour bleach on him, string a noose around his neck and shout racist and homophobic slurs while proclaiming “this is MAGA country.”
This caper recalled the Monty Python sketch about Stig O’Tracy (Eric Idle) who furiously denied that the notorious Dinsdale Piranha nailed his head to the floor. Informed that the police had film footage of the gangster nailing his head to the floor, O’Tracy concedes, “Well he had to, didn’t he? I mean there was nothing else he could do, be fair. I mean, he didn't want to nail my head to the floor. I had to insist. He wanted to let me off.”
In similar style, the police had ample evidence that Smollett faked the whole thing but the office of Illinois state attorney Kim Foxx sealed the records and dropped 16 felony charges. Smollett then proclaimed “I have been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.” For the actor and his defenders, he was still an innocent victim.
That recalls the scene from The Godfather, in which Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) confronts Carlo, who played out a “farce” with Michael’s sister that led to the murder of Sonny. Michael was not fooled.
“Don’t tell me you are innocent,” Michael tells Carlo, “because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.”
People across the country are angry that Jussie Smollett will not face trial. Some high-powered lawyer in Washington needs to sit down with George Soros protégé Kim Foxx and POTUS 44 fixer Tina Tchen.
SPLC Taps Lawyer Who Interfered in Smollett Case to Investigate Workplace-Harassment Allegations
Does this mean the harassment claims are fake too? Why else hire an expert in legitimizing fake hate crimes
Tina Chen and the Obamas---thick as thieves.
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Looks like a fat Asian man with long hair.
.....at which time Foxx dropped all charges .......
Pssssstttt......I got a bridge to sell anyone who believes Chen.
The bridge is real cheap....its in Brooklyn.
She just reminded them that Michelle was watching.
“Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff said Wednesday that her behind-the-scenes communications with Cook County’s top prosecutor about the case involving actor Jussie Smollett were not intended at influencing the outcome of the case.”
Pull my finger.
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KIM FOX: "I skipped class the day they taught penalizing multiple felonies. I was getting my nails done."
Riiiiiiight... Probably had that discussion on a tarmac too; coincidentally.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has hired Tina Tchen, a former Obama staffer who recently tried to intervene in the Jussie Smollett hate-crime-hoax case on the actor’s behalf, to conduct a review of workplace-harassment allegations in the wake of co-founder Morris Dees’s firing. Last Thursday, the SPLC announced Dees’s dismissal for unspecified violations of company policy and said that Tchen, who served as chief of staff to Michelle Obama and now runs a firm focused on “workplace cultural compliance,” would conduct a “comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices.”
That announcement came one day after the Chicago Sun Times obtained communications between Tchen and Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx in which Tchen asked Foxx to persuade Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson to turn the investigation of Smollett’s case over to the FBI. Tchen reportedly made the request, which Johnson refused to comply with, at the behest of one of Smollett’s relatives.
In an email sent just two days after Smollett falsely claimed he was jumped by a pair of Trump-supporting bigots, Foxx reached out to Tchen to let her know that she had contacted Johnson, as the Obama alumnus had previously requested. “Spoke to Superintendent Johnson. I convinced him to reach out to FBI to ask that they take over the investigation,” Foxx wrote. “OMG this would be a huge victory,” Tchen wrote in response to a text message from Foxx containing the same information as was included in the email. “I make no guarantees,” Foxx responded, “but I’m trying.”
Rahm has checkmated Smollett with the threat of civil fines and court dates. My conspiracy calculations can’t theorize high enough to understand what is happening here.
Is it a move to tell him to shut his damn mouth or face consequences. How does Greg Wing fit into all of this. Is he still doing human trafficking at the FBI?
Why was he forwarding a warrant for Smollett’s Icloud to an FBI analyst.
will Foxx fall on the sword to shut all of this down.
With Tina Tchen fixin', us Negros be Above the Law, Cracker.
Get used to it.
Rahm Emanuel blames Trump for Jussie Smollett controversy, creating ‘toxic environment’, tells him to ‘sit on the sidelines’
Trump tweets FBI, DOJ will review Jussie Smollett case
CHICAGO – Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday emphatically urged President Trump to butt out of the ongoing drama over embattled “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett as he blamed him for creating a “toxic environment” where someone would allegedly fabricate such an attack.
“My recommendation is the president go to Opening Day baseball, sit on the sidelines and stay out of this,” Emanuel told a group of reporters.
The mayor called Chicago a “Trump-free zone” and blamed the president for creating a “toxic” and “hate-filled” environment that allowed Smollett to think he could get away with faking a hate crime.
TRUMP SAYS DOJ, FBI TO REVIEW OUTRAGEOUS DECISION TO DROP CHARGES IN JUSSIE SMOLLETT CASE
“Let me be clear about something. The only reason Jussie Smollett thought he could take advantage of a hoax about a hate crime is because of the environment, the toxic environment that Donald Trump created,” Emanuel said.
“This is a president who drew a moral equivalency between people who are trying to perpetuate bigotry and those who are trying to fight bigotry.
More Rahm trash talk at link below.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-mayor-urges-trump-to-sit-on-the-sidelines-in-the-smollett-case
“Looks like a fat Asian man with long hair.”
OUCH! But you are indeed correct.
I'll bet she wouldn't repeat that claim under oath. I'm sure she'd " not recall exactly what I said . . . . . "
Jussie Smollett used the quid pro quo of the Chicago DA dropping charges to turn on the police and insist on his innocence instead of being thankful that the whole thing was made to disappear.
Jussie (noun) - A jussie is a person who does not show thanks for receiving favorable treatment, and instead turns on those after receiving the favorable outcome. An ungrateful person.
Jussie (verb) - To jussie something up is to take an ungrateful attitude after being shown a kindness from others. Being an ingrate.
-PJ
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