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Cory Booker 'withholding' judgment on Smollett case after calling it 'attempted modern-day lynching'
Fox News ^ | 17 February 2019 | Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 02/17/2019 2:09:14 PM PST by Magnatron

Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker told reporters Sunday that he would withhold judgment on the alleged attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett after calling the incident "an attempted modern-day lynching" when it was first reported last month.

"I’m gonna withhold until all the information actually comes out from on-the-record sources," the senator from New Jersey said after meeting with voters in Rochester, N.H. "We know in America that bigoted and biased attacks are on the rise in a serious way, and we actually even know in this country that since 9/11, the majority of the terrorist attacks on our soil have been right-wing terrorist attacks -- the majority of them white supremacist attacks."

Booker cited the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue this past October as well as the June 2015 shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C.

"What we're seeing is attacks on people because they're different and we all need to join together and condemn those attacks and the hatred and the bigotry that sources them," Booker said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: empire; hoax; jussie; smollett
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To: Magnatron
"What we're seeing is attacks on people because they're different and we all need to join together and condemn those attacks and the hatred and the bigotry that sources them," Booker said.

The problem for people like Booker will be that liberal politicians and the media tried to pass off the hoax of the Covington High School boys onto America. Those boys were certainly "different" from the likes of Booker and Smollett, and from Nathan Phillips and the Black Hebrew Israelites, but the boys were instantly "condemned" as the attackers.

Now we have Booker rushing to defend Smollett before the facts are in, and now slow-walking his retraction and apology in light of new facts.

Next time, Booker would be better off not rushing to condemn in the first place, and wait for the facts to develop, especially when the story involves people who aren't "different" from him.

-PJ

21 posted on 02/17/2019 2:47:24 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Magnatron

The majority of violence in this country comes from blacks and Hispanics. Look at the statistics. But, of course, facts are racist.


22 posted on 02/17/2019 2:49:39 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: Magnatron
...the majority of the terrorist attacks on our soil have been right-wing terrorist attacks -- the majority of them white supremacist attacks."

Propaganda from a liar and a fool.

23 posted on 02/17/2019 2:51:39 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Magnatron

Too late, Spartacus.


24 posted on 02/17/2019 2:53:08 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Magnatron

So NOW he withholds judgement?
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Yeah, NOW he withholds judgment, AFTER it is revealed he got taken in by a hoax and has egg on his face. (that is egg, isn’t it?)


25 posted on 02/17/2019 2:55:04 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Revel
Think about getting support for the Senate bill.

It's possible. There are people who think that way, but based on the evidence to date, this stunt was so poorly conceived and poorly executed that it's hard to believe very many would have thought this was something that could hold together and not be found out by investigators.

26 posted on 02/17/2019 3:00:03 PM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: Magnatron

Jussi paid his friends to stage a lynching. Yes he is guilty and yes, he should be arrested.


27 posted on 02/17/2019 3:04:55 PM PST by madison10
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To: Magnatron

Spartacus stepped on his willie again, this time wearing his golf shoes...


28 posted on 02/17/2019 3:11:31 PM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Magnatron

“I’m gonna withhold until all the information actually comes out from on-the-record sources,”

Why didn’t he say that when the hoax was first announced? It’s just that the first announcement fit his agenda, now that it is being exposed, he’s backing away.


29 posted on 02/17/2019 3:14:50 PM PST by euram
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To: Magnatron

There is plenty of hate in this country now and nearly all of it comes from the Democrat Party.


30 posted on 02/17/2019 3:15:17 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Magnatron

There he goes again, Queen of the Drama Queens—Gay Spartacus Jazz Hands Booker!!

Jazz Hands! Jazz Hands!

Fosse! Fosse! Fosse! Fosse!

Martha Graham! Martha Graham!

Michael Kidd! Michael Kidd!


31 posted on 02/17/2019 3:21:25 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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To: Magnatron

Booker already came out publicly embracing this obvious fraud.

Now he wants to pretend he is “reserving judgment”.

Nope. Booker is Smollett. He’s a blood-libel promoting anti-Christian bigot.

Booker the groper made unsubstantiated allegations of what he admitted doing himself.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/politics/cory-booker-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations/index.html

Of course CNN and WaPo justify his unwanted groping of a female breast as being okay because he said he was sorry for it.

Grandstanding, lying hypocrite.


32 posted on 02/17/2019 3:33:36 PM PST by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: unlearner

17 Feb: FederalistPapers: AOC & Kamala’s Connection to Smollett’s Disastrous Case Is Totally Damning
By Carmine Sabia
“To those in Congress who don’t feel the urgency to pass our Anti-Lynching bill designating lynching as a federal hate crime– I urge you to pay attention,” Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker said...ETC
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/ocasio-cortez-kamala-harris-knee-deep-jussie-smollett


33 posted on 02/17/2019 3:36:01 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: zeebee

#8. Yes, “faking a hate crime is a hate crime in itself”, but so is Booker’s posing as a U.S. Senator who actually cares about his crime/drug and corruption ridden state.

If there was ever a 25th Amendment-like situation for Senators, Booker’s words not only would invoke it, they would SHOUT to the skies for it to be invoked.

“Forget it Jake, it’s Jersey”. Tony Soprano.


34 posted on 02/17/2019 3:41:01 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: Magnatron

I’ve seen several times the lie from the lwft that “there is an indisputable rise on right-wing violence.”

Why are people letting the lefties get away with that?


35 posted on 02/17/2019 3:41:36 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Will88

You give them a lot more credit than they deserve.


36 posted on 02/17/2019 3:45:04 PM PST by Revel
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To: Magnatron

Is Booker dating Smollett’s sister?


37 posted on 02/17/2019 3:46:46 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Magnatron

NIGERIAN REDNECKS????


38 posted on 02/17/2019 3:50:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Magnatron

Too late, Booger! Should have withheld judgement when it was prudent to do so. Better yet, should have not fallen for an oh, too common hoax theme. But now you’ve stepped in it, then put your big foot in your mouth. Eeeewwww.


39 posted on 02/17/2019 3:51:56 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: gunsequalfreedom
Is Booker dating Smollett’s sister?

Nope...his brother.

40 posted on 02/17/2019 3:53:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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