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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
The mayor called Chicago a "Trump-free zone"...

As he elicited Trump by name! Douchebag!

41 posted on 03/29/2019 9:38:58 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: PA-RIVER
"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."

Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty In ‘Vote Trump’ Church Arson

JACKSON, Miss. — A (BLACK) 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.

42 posted on 03/29/2019 9:44:29 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

President Trump and his supporters were the people who would have been mocked and dragged through the mud if this lowlife criminal had pulled off his ‘hoax’. Damn right it’s OUR business...

Leftwing haters have been doing these types of hate crimes against us for years... AND we’re sick of the thugs in the press running with every vile lie their pets fake...Jussie Smollett is one of hundreds of thugs attacking conservatives in this disgusting way.

Yesterday if you googled ‘fake hate crimes’ you got the site with a list of fake hate crimes. This afternoon that’s all washed away... everything listed now is about the pity party crowd... Amazing it’s 1984


43 posted on 03/29/2019 9:45:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (FBI: Did the Southern Poverty Law Center assist with organizing(and funding) Charlottesville?)
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To: blam

“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.


Let me be clear about something. Mr. Emanuel. The only reason Jussie Smollett got away with a hoax about a hate crime is because of the environment, the toxic environment that Democrats and the mainstream media created.


44 posted on 03/29/2019 9:45:37 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: blam

Oh that’s right, blacks are not responsible for what they do.

I forgot. Glad Eman reminded me.


45 posted on 03/29/2019 9:47:05 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

Someone send twinkle toes a fish.


46 posted on 03/29/2019 9:49:21 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Organized Crime is now in charge of the District of Corruption)
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To: GOPJ
"Yesterday if you googled ‘fake hate crimes’ you got the site with a list of fake hate crimes. This afternoon that’s all washed away... everything listed now is about the pity party crowd... Amazing it’s 1984"

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. -- George Orwell, "1984"

47 posted on 03/29/2019 9:49:31 AM PDT by blam
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To: Williams

I say in the universe where the Trump Hotel in Chicago does not pay the taxes owed the city. How’s that for a Trump free zone, Rahm?


48 posted on 03/29/2019 9:54:27 AM PDT by Stayingawayfromthedarkside (Look, is it America that I see again?)
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To: blam

Ill bet he got a call from Barry Hussein Soetoro aka Deep State.


49 posted on 03/29/2019 10:00:18 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: blam
There have been over 30 hoax hate crimes pushed by the MSM since Election Day. Trump didn't create that environment.

Tweets compiled by Andy Ngo

50 posted on 03/29/2019 10:17:41 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: blam

Rahm Emmanuel is scared that if the feds become involved, the truth may come out and the Chicago government might be involved. That is the reason for him trying to keep the federal government out of it. It deserves an investigation Rahm.


51 posted on 03/29/2019 10:26:23 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

I read that prior to 9/11 the one place in the country with the largest number of deployed investigating FBI agents was Chicago.

That all changed after 9/11.


52 posted on 03/29/2019 10:29:16 AM PDT by Reily
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To: blam

What a total jerk.


53 posted on 03/29/2019 10:49:08 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: blam

The body count is higher in Chicago than it is in any forward operating area we are currently involved in.

Nothing toxic about that.


54 posted on 03/29/2019 10:51:54 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: GOPJ

It’s still there.


55 posted on 03/29/2019 11:23:46 AM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: GOPJ

fakehatecrimes.org could be organized better.


56 posted on 03/29/2019 11:32:31 AM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: gcparent

TDS is widespread in Chicago.


57 posted on 03/29/2019 11:51:40 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: blam

The only part that I agree with is yes, Trump did not need to say anything. But that’s it. The “toxic” environment is not Trump’s creation. It is the creation of the Dim party machine and agenda that runs most of the media.

But, in Rahm’s favor, he himself beat all the Washington D.C. political class, taking the right stance publicly that the sealing of the Smollet case was a “whitewash” and a betrayal of the good work of the police and the grand jury that made the indictments. I am no fan of Mr Emanuel but he absolutely did the right thing after the corrupt state’s attorney for Cook County, Ms Foxx, sealed the case and essentially letting Smollet off the hook.

Yes, I like Trump, but us “winning” does not require him to publicly comment on everything. And yes, sometimes his comments actually don’t help. I don’t have to like everything he does, even while I agree with his judicial choices and policy decisions 99% of the time.


58 posted on 03/29/2019 12:39:47 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: blam

Emanuel is an ambulatory bucket of toxic lying filth. His brain is completely rotted from many years of libtardism; he is incapable of rational thought any more. And THIS is what the fools of Chicago voted in as their mayor!


59 posted on 03/29/2019 1:10:41 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Jaded

You’re right. If the site was promoting a left wing concern Soros would give them a million dollar grant to spruce things up... Since it’s right wing we can assume it’s two or three people with kids, doing it for free and working a job or two to pay for it.


60 posted on 03/29/2019 9:10:51 PM PDT by GOPJ (FBI: Did the Southern Poverty Law Center assist with organizing(and funding) Charlottesville?)
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