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Emanuel Blames Trump For Smollett Controversy, 'Toxic Environment', 'Sit On The Sidelines'
Fox News ^ | 3-29-2019 | Barnini Chakraborty

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blamegame; boogedyboogedy; chicago; emanuel; gaslighting; rahm; smollett; trump
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To: blam

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.


21 posted on 03/29/2019 9:05:43 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: DIRTYSECRET

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.


22 posted on 03/29/2019 9:06:56 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: blam

How much can I buy you for, Ramm?


23 posted on 03/29/2019 9:07:57 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: gcparent

> Orange Man’s fault.

And Global Warming/Climate Change.


24 posted on 03/29/2019 9:08:17 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: blam

Why can’t Trump comment on Chicago’s dirty laundry?


25 posted on 03/29/2019 9:10:31 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: blam

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?”


26 posted on 03/29/2019 9:11:23 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: blam

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.


27 posted on 03/29/2019 9:13:36 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Exactly.. The Left are Juvenile delinquents.


28 posted on 03/29/2019 9:13:47 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: blam

He was paid to do it and has a history of faking events like this.
Trump needs to keep pushing on it.


29 posted on 03/29/2019 9:14:09 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: blam

Why would anyone listen to his advice? Obviously they are scared of what will come out. Because this involves the Obamas.


30 posted on 03/29/2019 9:14:35 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: blam
How moronic is it to claim that President Trump has created a "toxic, hate-filled environment", where "hate crimes" must be staged because there are no such real victims (on the left)?

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.

31 posted on 03/29/2019 9:14:59 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: blam

Listen to how they talk like crazy Nazis. Saying that Chicago is a Trump free zone. In what universe?


32 posted on 03/29/2019 9:16:02 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: blam

It’s just about time to roll Federal tanks into Chicago and place it under martial law.


33 posted on 03/29/2019 9:16:21 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: blam

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”.


34 posted on 03/29/2019 9:16:41 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
This is beginning to look like a bigger show than just about Smollett when you consider the lead players....

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.

35 posted on 03/29/2019 9:18:42 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Yep, this looks like a staged event gone wrong when the police actually did their jobs.


36 posted on 03/29/2019 9:22:22 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: blam

And he’s baaaaack...


37 posted on 03/29/2019 9:23:28 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Emmanuel jumped on this far ‘too quick’......as if this was their next move.


38 posted on 03/29/2019 9:30:34 AM PDT by caww
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To: blam

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.


39 posted on 03/29/2019 9:31:09 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: blam

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.


40 posted on 03/29/2019 9:37:38 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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