Jussie Smollett has all the privileges of fake oppressionOppression is the new "privilege." There is no surer demonstration of that fact than Jussie Smollett having all charges against him dropped in Chicago, even as he unapologetically maintains his ridiculous claim that he was assaulted by Trump supporters for being gay and black.
The office of Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx said Tuesday that it had let go of Smollett, who had been indicted on 16 felony counts, “after reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including Mr. Smollett's volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his [$10,000] bond to the City of Chicago.”
TMZ said that it was unable to find any record of “volunteer service” by Smollett.
This would be laughable if it weren’t so depressing. Smollett’s story was that he was jumped by two men who, although masked, were identifiable as white from the eye holes. He said they called him "faggot" and and said, “This is MAGA country” while punching him and kicking him in the back while he was on the ground.
Police said that the “attackers” were actually two brothers who knew Smollett. They admitted to having been paid by the actor to fake the incident. Smollett’s lawyer on Tuesday affirmed that it was the two brothers who “attacked” Smollett. They’re black, not white. And Smollett knew them as his fitness trainers.
Police in February laid out a damning case against Smollett, including a timeline with video evidence that they were certain proved Smollett had staged the attack and that he did so with the intention of never being caught.
The state’s attorney's office is corrupted. A report in the Chicago Sun-Times two weeks ago almost predicted that Smollett’s case would end with this sort of sham.
The report said that Kim Foxx had phone conversations with one of Smollett’s relatives about the investigation into the staged attack. Thereafter, Foxx, for unknown reasons, told the relative that she intended to ask police superintendent Eddie Johnson to turn the investigation over to the FBI.
“OMG this would be a huge victory,” Smollett’s relative replied.
Foxx recused herself from the investigation Feb. 13, the same day as her last conversation with the relative, according to the Times.
Foxx had intervened in the investigation on behalf of Smollett's relative. Did she also recuse herself because she knew that the case would safely conclude in the hands of her deputy, Joseph Magats, with dropped charges? To paraphrase CNN’s Brian Stelter: We’ll never know!
Smollett is black and gay and he knows that claiming oppression based on those traits alone is enough to get ahead in America today. He faked his attack because he knows that’s the game: Claim you’ve been victimized by the privileged. And now he’s going to get away with it the very same way.
