Posted on 03/29/2019 8:17:39 AM PDT by blam
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.
“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.
As somebody who has started his own journey in politics fighting the neo-Nazis in Skokie and then down to Marquette Park, President Trump should literally take his politics, move it aside.
The mayor continued: “He's created a toxic environment and now he's created a toxic, vicious cycle in my view. The only reason Jussie Smollett thought he could get away with this hoax about a hate crime is because of the environment President Trump created
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Smollett creates the toxic environment by himself. The Left made it much worse, Now they have undermined the justice system by dropping these charges. Now Emmanuel, has the temerity to blame Trump.
His presser was FAKE fury and fire, simple political theater.
I called it when he said it.
You are witnessing a whitewash operation, and if you dare to question the approved narratives, you are a racist.
How much can I buy you for, Ramm?
> Orange Man’s fault.
And Global Warming/Climate Change.
Why can’t Trump comment on Chicago’s dirty laundry?
Hey Rahm, what about the toxic environment you’re creating with your senseless and paranoid pathological hatred of our President? You think that might be the cause of the Smollett “Controversy?”
Chicago, and it’s PD, are gagging on Juicy’s “private connections”.
Juicy is telling em to just “swallowit” and enjoy.
So they gotta blame somebody, besides themselves. POTUS is always a favorite for em.
Liberalism is a chronic, no-cure mental disease. Everyday, we see another example of it.
Exactly.. The Left are Juvenile delinquents.
He was paid to do it and has a history of faking events like this.
Trump needs to keep pushing on it.
Why would anyone listen to his advice? Obviously they are scared of what will come out. Because this involves the Obamas.
People that claim to be living in fear of being attacked, especially by the police, do not go to the police to report fake crimes, expecting to get away with it.
Listen to how they talk like crazy Nazis. Saying that Chicago is a Trump free zone. In what universe?
It’s just about time to roll Federal tanks into Chicago and place it under martial law.
Leaving this alone is good advice for Mr. Trump.
Enough wheels are in motion to cause a lot of damage for the rattiest of RATs. As Napoleon said, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”.
Hollywood, Emmanuel/Chicago, connections to the Obamas. Even Eric Holder chimed in. Especially when Emmanuel tells the President to sit on the sidelines of this.......
Could be this was a Demorat move using Smollett to create race issues and division that backfired. He gets arrested and tells these players if they don't get him out he's going to blow th entire deal he made with them.
Yep, this looks like a staged event gone wrong when the police actually did their jobs.
And he’s baaaaack...
Emmanuel jumped on this far ‘too quick’......as if this was their next move.
Rham Emanuel is a race card pimp.
A member of a black church in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to burning the church, which was also spray painted with the slogan “Vote Trump,” a week before the 2016 presidential election.
This and Smollet is causing the toxic environment. Democrats pimping the race card, and using hoaxes to smear people.
100% of the toxicity is on the left. 0% is on the right. Typically the left acknowledges its hate by blaming its victim. “You made me hate you,” is the song of the progressives.
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