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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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So NOW he withholds judgement?

And no, Spartacus, the majority of terrorist attacks on our soil have NOT been white supremacist attacks. But you knew that already, didn't you?

Gotta keep the meme going after all...

1 posted on 02/17/2019 2:09:14 PM PST by Magnatron
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“We know in America that bigoted and biased attacks are on the rise in a serious way, ...”

I’m tired of snarking at your idiocy, dumb*ass.

Prove it. It’ll take math. You know, the thing that you were so bad at that you became a politician (home of mega dumbasses).

Again, prove it.


2 posted on 02/17/2019 2:12:14 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Magnatron

Buying some time so he can figure out how to spin it.


3 posted on 02/17/2019 2:13:54 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Magnatron

Cory and his type will
Fan this kind of garbage
Until a spark ignites and
All Hell breaks Loose!


4 posted on 02/17/2019 2:16:02 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: rockinqsranch

Lefties are waiting it out.

Remember the lies during the Kavenaugh hearing? Ford was afraid to fly? Train-banging? Confidential reports leaked by the Democrats? Not only did they get away with what everyone knew was a scam, but in leftie land, those ladies are still considered heros.


5 posted on 02/17/2019 2:19:33 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Magnatron
“Attempted modern day lynching” is what the left did to Kavanaugh, to now Justice Thomas, and what they try to do to anyone who is a threat to them. They are Bolsheviks and Stalinists among us.
6 posted on 02/17/2019 2:19:37 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Magnatron

People should take note of how convenient it was that this FF case happened at the same time that the Senate decided to pass a bill making lynching a Federal crime. Also note that there are pictures of Smollett hanging out with Obama and other deep state people. Maybe even with Cory Booker.

This FF operation comes from very high levels. And those high level people are no doubt trying to get the Chicago PD to back off. No I know why the police have not forced him to come back in an answer questions.


7 posted on 02/17/2019 2:20:59 PM PST by Revel
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To: Magnatron

Faking a hate crime is a hate crime in itself.


8 posted on 02/17/2019 2:21:43 PM PST by zeebee
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To: Magnatron

Cory will never be content till he is worshipped like God


9 posted on 02/17/2019 2:23:12 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: Da Coyote

and that is how they are all going to buy there way out of their foot and mouth disease. Pretty much the fake but accurate route.


10 posted on 02/17/2019 2:24:14 PM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Magnatron
"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."

What a bunch of BS.

He knows no such thing.

11 posted on 02/17/2019 2:24:33 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Magnatron

After several years of hoaxes by members of victim groups, any suspected racial incident involving swastikas, KKK graffiti, rope and hangman’s knots, MAGA hats, etc., is very probably a hoax perpetrated by members of some victim group.

But Cory Booker is too unobservant, or too stupid, or too much of a race baiter to consider such probabilities. And he has much company on the left and throughout the MSM.


12 posted on 02/17/2019 2:25:53 PM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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Obviously I can’t prove it, but I believe that Cory Booker was in on it. Right from the beginning. Think about getting support for the Senate bill.


13 posted on 02/17/2019 2:28:48 PM PST by Revel
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To: Magnatron
"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."

I wish God would strike these lying bastards down with a bolt of lighting....

14 posted on 02/17/2019 2:29:07 PM PST by Popman
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To: Will88

15 posted on 02/17/2019 2:31:16 PM PST by Revel
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To: Revel

Booker already stepped in the dog shit.


16 posted on 02/17/2019 2:34:31 PM PST by mplc51
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To: Magnatron

you see what these slimes are doing? well, he lied, but because WE KNOW that attacks happen or are rumored to have happened, wink wink, we can just look the other way and let him play victim

booker, Harris, Pelosi, and any other slime that jumped on the hate bandwagon, needs to publically apologize - on TV - to the nation - for inciting hatred from the top. Going higher, indeed.


17 posted on 02/17/2019 2:36:14 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Magnatron

Well, Sparky you and your fellow travelers would’ve seemed a little smarter if you all withheld judgement from the get go until more info came out. Not much smarter, just a little bit.


18 posted on 02/17/2019 2:37:39 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Magnatron

So he’s not saying, “I’m am Jussie?!”


19 posted on 02/17/2019 2:41:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: metmom

We do know that Booker is a liar!


20 posted on 02/17/2019 2:44:21 PM PST by Wm F Buckley Republican
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