Posted on 03/14/2019 11:19:21 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
After being contacted by a Chicago attorney who served as former first lady Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, the top prosecutor in Cook County asked the city’s top cop to turn over the Jussie Smollett probe to the FBI, according to reports.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx reached out to Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson after Tina Tchen, the former senior Obama official, emailed the prosecutor saying the “Empire” actor’s family had “concerns” about the probe, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Tchen passed Foxx’s number to a family member of Smollett, and the ensuing conversations with the relative were later cited by the prosecutor as the reason she recused herself from the probe, according to the paper, which obtained messages from Foxx in response to a public records request.
Text messages show Tchen contacted Foxx on Feb. 1, three days after Smollett reported that he was attacked by two masked men who hurled racist and homophobic slurs at him and put his neck in a noose.
Tchen, a close friend of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s wife, sent a text message to Foxx to set up an early morning phone call, according to the newspaper.
“I wanted to give you a call on behalf of Jussie Smollett and family who I know. They have concerns about the investigation,” texted Tchen, who sought to set up a call with Foxx before flying out to New York at 8 a.m.
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Big Mike seems to have an affinity for phaggs
When the Obamas were in the WH, that was usually all it took. "Please tell the First Lady it will be taken care of immediately."
Mmm, Hmm. Get it assigned to a hand picked FBI team and watch it get swept under a rug.
charge her with obstruction of justice
That’s an eyebrow raiser.
Obamas believe they still have corrupt cronies inside the DOJ and FBI
They probably do.
Given the last 2 years, why does this make me suspect that the Obamas still have personnel in the FBI who would have buried any incriminating evidence against Smollett to maintain "the narrative"?
Rumor is, Michelle was closely involved with Roseanne being so quickly fired. Michelle knew the producer of that station.
That producer, Channing Dungey has since left ABC Entertainment.
He did not “report he was attacked by two masked men” he reported that he was attacked BY TRUMP SUPPORTERS!!!
Former Michelle Obama aide tried to intervene in Jussie Smollett probe
Trying to put in the usual and customary “FIX”. Nothing new.
COLLUSION
OBSTRUCTION of JUSTICE
So basically saying, if we can get the FBI to take over, we can make it go away. Nothing to see here.
It isn’t the FBI anymore.
It is the democrat party’s FBI.
Just like the Mandalay shooting in Las Vegas.
Who paid to get Michelle into college?
Affirmative Action
The prosecutor is clearly worried about the legal implications to her of having been told to hand off the job, so that’s why she’s bringing it out.
However, at the time, I’d say she didn’t want to go into it anyway, because everybody in their right mind knew that Smollett was lying. She didn’t want to have to be the one to be blamed for saying it. This is assuming she was planning on doing an honest investigation, which is by no means certain. But she just wanted out and I’m sure she was happy to be told to hand it off.
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