Posted on 03/27/2019 7:20:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
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 of a sealed deal, the Illinois state attorney's 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 "assault" that left him with a teensy-weensy scratch under his eye. The day before the "attack," Smollett's two bodybuilding friends were caught on surveillance tape buying costumery (red hat, ski masks, bandanas, sunglasses and gloves) that just happened to match Smollett's descriptions of what his still-fugitive assailants were wearing.
But I guess there's no use crying over spilled bleach.
To atone for the-fakery-that-shall-not-be-named, Smollett performed 18 hours of "community service" with Jesse Jackson's PUSH Coalition and forfeited his $10,000 bond.
Minority liberal race-hustling has its privileges.
And that brings us to the Democratic operatives behind the scenes. Two weeks ago, Chicago Sun-Times reporters discovered that Obama crony pal and deep-pocketed campaign finance mega-bundler Tina Tchen had inserted herself in the investigation. Tchen texted Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx just three days after the incident "on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family who I know" to express "concerns." She suggested that Foxx lean on Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to yield to the FBI and she shared an unidentified Smollett's family member's cellphone number with Foxx.
Foxx texted back that she had done as requested and that Chief Johnson was "going to make the ask." The unidentified relative rejoiced: "OMG this would be a huge victory."
Only after Foxx meddled did she recuse herself and name an underling to take over -- which rendered her Kabuki recusal meaningless to veteran observers of the "Crook" County criminal justice system. So, who was the Smollett relative with all the right (or rather, left) connections? Follow the trail:
--Tchen and Smollett's sister, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, joined together in March 2018 at South by Southwest in Austin to proclaim that "There Is No Time's Up Without Women Of Color."
--In May 2018, Tchen and Smollett-Bell took the stage together again -- hand-in-hand, glued at the hip -- at the United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles (where Tchen's former boss and gal pal, Michelle Obama, also appeared).
--Smollett-Bell and another sister, Jazz Smollett-Warwell, worked for the Obama campaigns in 2008 and 2012 and volunteered as tireless surrogates.
--My search of White House visitor logs shows Jurnee Smollett-Bell paying at least one personal visit to "POTUS/FLOTUS" at their residence in March 2013 while Tchen was serving as a top strategist to both Obamas.
To minimize Tchen's role in the Obamas' political lives as merely an "aide" is journalistic malpractice. As I have previously reported:
--Tchen personally shoveled more than $200,000 into the 2008 Obama presidential campaign coffers while a high-powered lawyer at white-shoe Skadden Arps.
--Tchen served as special assistant to President Obama, and then took over as chief of staff in the East Wing for Mrs. Obama.
--Tchen headed up the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement, spearheaded by longtime Chicago pal and fellow corporate lawyer/bundler Valerie Jarrett.
--Tchen coordinated Hollywood celebrities to promote Obama's domestic policy agenda through the taxpayer-subsidized National Endowment for the Arts.
--Tchen was listed in 2009 White House visitor logs I reviewed as having met there with radical left-wing billionaire George Soros.
--As Breitbart's Joel Pollak noted, Soros donated a total of $408,000 to super PACs supporting Foxx's successful primary and general campaigns for Cook County state attorney.
Given Jurnee Smollett-Bell's hand-holding friendship with Tchen, Tchen's intimacy with the Obamas, and Michelle Obama's chumminess with Jussie Smollett (she hosted him at a musical event at the White House in 2016 and danced with him on stage at a College Signing Day Event in 2018), it is not unreasonable to wonder how much direct knowledge the Obamas themselves may have had about Tchen's role as Smollett's fixer.
Tchen has made quite the career out of exploiting her Obama connections, including cushy spots on VICE's Diversity and Inclusion Board, Uber's #MeToo advisory board, and the Grammys' task force for inclusion and diversity. But those plum jobs and her role in Smollett's Folly all pale in comparison to her newest gig: playing watchdog over the crumbling Southern Poverty Law Center.
After decades of manufacturing "hate" against peaceful, law-abiding conservatives, sharia opponents, Christian activists and immigration enforcement hawks, the junk mail order house that grifter Morris Dees built is in chaos amid long-brewing strife over internal gender and racial discrimination -- 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's half-billion-dollar endowment. Support the real victims of hate crime conspiracies. Start with DefendGavin.com. The only way to revoke the privilege is to destroy it.
....it might be why he really didn’t
want to give up his phone...
The positive to this story is we can now regard all “hate crimes” as hoaxes.
President Trump Please arrest Soros as a foreign agent and spy undermining America.
You can smell the stench of the Obamas all over this travesty of justice.
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We just can't escape the stench of 0bama, but it is strange that he concerns himself with the stunts of a 4th rate actor (at best). He could NEVER discern what matters and what doesn't.
Stench of Obama....
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Can you or another knowledgeable FReeper please tell me what must have happened to make Rahm “the Godfather” Emanuel change? Do you think it is turf warfare or revenge for a slight? Since when does Rahm sound like this?
Thank you in advance.
Nothing to see here.
The “Smollett family friend,” the report said, was Tina Tchen, who wrote to Foxx: “Hi Kim – I sent an email to your work address I think as well. I wanted to give you a call on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family who I know. They have concerns about the investigation. I am on an 8 am flight to nyc but please call me before then. I land about 1015 Chicago time. My cell is [redacted]. Many thanks!”
The report pointed out that Tchen is former first lady Michelle Obama’s former aide.
“I’ll keep you posted,” she wrote after the message: “Spoke to the superintendent earlier, he made the ask. Trying to figure out logistics.”
The Chicago Tribune reported Foxx had asked police to let the FBI handle the case after being contacted by Tchen but later recused herself from the case because of the contacts.
The political connections didn’t end there.
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/michelle-obamas-ex-aide-lobbied-smollett-prosecutor/
Obama can get court records sealed or unsealed as it suits his pleasure. The Obama stench is indeed all over the Smollett case.
Ryan file a bombshell
By John Chase and Liam Ford, Chicago Tribune staff reporters
June 22, 2004.Republican U.S. Senate nominee Jack Ryan's ex-wife, TV actress Jeri Ryan, accused him of taking her to sex clubs in New York and Paris, where he tried to coerce her into having sex with him in front of strangers, according to records released Monday from the couple's California divorce file.
Jack Ryan denied the allegations when they were made in 2000, when the couple was engaged in a bitter child custody battle a year after their divorce.
The papers were released by California Judge Robert Schnider following his decision last week to unseal portions of the Ryans' divorce file.
The Kamala Harris connection has been strangely overlooked since it was first mentioned.
1) She and Smollett have campaigned together for her election(s) and for others.
2) She is the currently the Obamas hand-picked candidate
3) The Smollett ‘attack’ was staged - they believed an actor would play the victim to the hilt complete with tears and nobody would actually be harmed.
4) An actor would also be a much better poster boy than the usual lowlife criminal thugs (Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin) plucked out of anonymity and celebrated by the Obamas.
5) Like the Clintons’ deny/delay/distract tactics, the Obamas have a signature MO: use a victim as a chisel to divide and accuse hundreds of millions of racism.
6) Harris would borrow their playbook and Smollett would likely appear frequently to play his part.
As fake conspiracies go it was ludicrous hackery but the Obamas have long believed their own hype so they overlooked the pitfalls.
I’ve said same on various sites this week.
If records can be sealed, they can be unsealed, especially if and when this judge is tossed from office.
Not only that but his citizen ship should be revoked and should have been done generations ago.
Well, at least we haven’t heard the name “Jesse Jackson” in a long time.
Now that their legacy has been soundly smashed, it's time start smashing the Obamas themselves.
Former Obama Aide Emailed Top Prosecutor About Smollett Investigation ‘Concerns’ Before He Was a Suspect!
by Matt Naham | 4:38 pm, March 26th, 2019
Questions continue to be asked about why Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx‘s office decided to drop multiple felony charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett for allegedly filing a false report about a hate crime against him.
Perhaps it was an issue with the evidence, but former prosecutors agree that the case’s dismissal makes no sense. One prosecutor reportedly said that charges were dropped even though he still believed Smollett lied to police.
Ryan Schulteis
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#BREAKING: Prosecutor says he still believes Jussie Smollett lied about attack despite dropping charges via @AP
As it happens, political intrigue has been added to the situation, as it’s being reported that Tina Tchen, a former aide to Michelle Obama, reached out to Foxx over email last month to make a call “on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family who I know.”
All of this happened after Chicago police went through a lot of trouble to get a grand jury to indict Smollett on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false report. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson also held a press a conference and accused Smollett of staging a hoax for fame.
Tchen is a Chicago attorney like Foxx, but a former chief of staff to the former first lady.
Check out Larry Sinclair's book titled ""Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair - Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder" and you may be able to figure out the attraction.
Seems like the SPLC just made a new hire.
IIRC, it was Tina Tchen.
Looks like the sharks are circling the pot of money.
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