{"id":303873,"date":"2019-03-26T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=303873"},"modified":"2019-03-27T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:41:40","slug":"leftist-privilege-saves-jussie-smollett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/26\/leftist-privilege-saves-jussie-smollett\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Privilege Saves Jussie Smollett"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The police chief in Chicago is furious. The police superintendent, Eddie Johnson, who announced these charges against Smollett in the first place<\/a>. If you\u2019re just turning on the radio, the Chicago DA, the state attorney, Kim Foxx, who had recused herself from this case, has announced that charges against Jussie Smollett have been dropped, and the police were not consulted. They didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

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He has paid them $10,000. She\u2019s saying (paraphrasing), “Well, he was only gonna get community service if he was found guilty. He\u2019s already done some great community service, and so we are dropping the charges and his record will be expunged,” and this just happened moments ago this morning. This was revealed about 30, 45 minutes ago. And what we\u2019re told is that Eddie Johnson, police superintendent, is furious he was not given a heads-up that this was going to happen.<\/p>\n

It appears, folks, the best that I have been able to determine — and I have been immersed in this ever since it happened — it appears that this has nothing to do with being a defect in the evidence. It has nothing to do with the fact that what he was accused of being, or doing, didn\u2019t happen or that they can\u2019t prove it.<\/p>\n

It, rather, appears to be, as my friend Andy McCarthy referred it moments ago on Fox, as an act of mercy on the part of the district attorney, deciding he\u2019d been through enough. That he had paid $10,000, he\u2019s already performed significant amounts of wonderful work for the community of Chicago, and so they are just deciding to drop charges.<\/p>\n

Smollett\u2019s team is now at the microphone. We\u2019re gonna JIP this when he speaks because it will be interesting to see how he plays this, if he is contrite and apologizes for all of the grief — \u2019cause, remember, he mailed phony letters to himself. And that is a federal crime. And I don\u2019t know what the Feds were gonna do in this case, if they were even involved in it. But the state charges have been totally dropped, and they will never appear on his record.<\/p>\n

But not because they couldn\u2019t prove it and not because he didn\u2019t do it, but rather, apparently, because he\u2019s already paid a significant price, $10,000 and community service. So it was obviously some kind of a massive negotiation between Smollett\u2019s lawyers and the state attorney, district attorney in Chicago, Cook County state attorney. Kim Foxx is the name.<\/p>\n

I was confused about this because she recused herself from this case at some point. Now she\u2019s back in it. I don\u2019t know how that happened. But still a lot to figure out about this. But, folks, this is the kind of thing that actually encourages people to believe that there\u2019s a two-tier justice system and that people who have status or money or access somehow have a better shot in front of the justice system than other people.<\/p>\n

And this follows one day after this fiasco of the Mueller investigation was exposed for what it is and about which there is going to be much more today. Because this by no means should in any way, shape, manner, or form considered to be over. A lot of people are calling for this now, and I am flattered \u2019cause I addressed this yesterday. Look at the counterintelligence apparatus of this country that was utilized. And from the Obama administration every one of these people has ties back to the Obama administration. Every damned one of them except for Mueller, and even he could be said to have some ties.<\/p>\n

But all the FBI leadership and even Brennan and Clapper, all these people are from the Obama administration and from the Obama counterintelligence apparatus or series of agencies. And every one of these people deserves to be examined and investigated to find out who started this, whose idea it was, when it actually was given life, and, of course, how much did Obama know, and when did he know it?<\/p>\n

And I am not trying to use a cliche, and I\u2019m not trying to be provocative. This literally needs to happen. This was a coup. It was an ongoing coup. It had multiple purposes. Its primary purpose was to reverse the election results of 2016 however they could do it, forcing Trump to resign, impeachment, you name it. The second purpose of this investigation was to cover up what these people had done.<\/p>\n

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Okay. Okay. Okay. Let\u2019s join Smollett because he\u2019s speaking!<\/p>\n

SMOLLETT: — the incredible people of Chicago —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

SMOLLETT: — and all over the country and the world who have prayed for me, who have supported me, who\u2019ve shown me so much love.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, here we go. The egomaniacal —<\/p>\n

SMOLLETT: No one will ever know how much that has meant to me, and I will forever be grateful. I want you to know that not for a moment was it in vain. I\u2019ve been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. I would not be my mother\u2019s son if I was capable of one drop of what I have been accused of.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh-huh. Okay.<\/p>\n

SMOLLETT: This has been an incredibly difficult time, honestly one of the worst of my entire life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How pitiful.<\/p>\n

SMOLLETT: But I\u2019m a man of faith and I\u2019m a man that has knowledge of my history and I would not bring my family, our lives, or the movement through a fire like this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Except you did.<\/p>\n

SMOLLETT: So I want to thank my legal counsel from the bottom of my heart and I would also like to thank the state of Illinois for attempting to do what\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ho! Okay, well —<\/p>\n

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SMOLLETT: Now I\u2019d like nothing more than to just get back to work and move on with my life. But make no mistake, I will always continue to fight for the justice, equality, and betterment of marginalized people everywhere. So, again, thank you for all the support, thank you for faith, and thank you to God. Bless y\u2019all. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.\u00a0\u00a0There you go.\u00a0\u00a0Get rid of that.\u00a0\u00a0So we didn\u2019t get what some people thought Smollett should do, that he should have apologized. Maybe not, because he doesn\u2019t want to admit that the whole thing was made up. But apologize for the hassle, apologize for what happened, what he put the community through because of this.\u00a0\u00a0There wasn\u2019t any of that.\u00a0\u00a0He continued to portray himself as a victim here.\u00a0\u00a0So now the question\u2019s gonna be:<\/p>\n

Why did they actually drop the charges?\u00a0\u00a0The police superintendent is not only just dropping the charges. They\u2019re expunging the record.\u00a0\u00a0There will be no record of this whatsoever.\u00a0\u00a0Now, there\u2019s a message that\u2019s being sent here with this.\u00a0\u00a0Let us be bold and let us be truthful here.\u00a0\u00a0Any leftist activist, to whatever degree deranged and imbalanced — egged on by people like Maxine Waters — can now fake hate crimes against Trump supporters.\u00a0\u00a0They can then claim a fake lynching by Trump supporters.\u00a0\u00a0They can then lie to the police.\u00a0\u00a0Then they can lie to the media.<\/p>\n

Then they can lie to the American people.\u00a0\u00a0They can cause a media frenzy against Trump supporters.\u00a0\u00a0They can plead not guilty and apparently walk away scot-free!\u00a0\u00a0Can you say “leftist privilege in the Cook County legal system”?\u00a0\u00a0This kid faked a hate crime against Trump supporters because he didn\u2019t like his cut of $125,000 per episode, and it\u2019s more than that.\u00a0\u00a0The guy is a leftist political activist.\u00a0\u00a0Then he lied to the police.\u00a0\u00a0So what happened?\u00a0\u00a0What and which officials in Chicago played a role in wiping this off the books?\u00a0\u00a0How did this happen?<\/p>\n

Jussie Smollett says he\u2019s going to “fight for equality.”\u00a0\u00a0Isn\u2019t it now clear that some people are more equal than others?\u00a0\u00a0So here he is continuing to portray himself as a victim.\u00a0\u00a0You see, folks, this stuff doesn\u2019t end.\u00a0\u00a0You think that you win something real big like the Mueller report coming out, and then in only a few short hours or days later that you are — and we are — reminded that there aren\u2019t any lasting victories, that it is an ongoing battle.<\/p>\n

Smollett has, up until now, continued to claim that he didn\u2019t lie, that everything he said happened.\u00a0\u00a0Why should he get mercy?\u00a0\u00a0Well, according to what we\u2019ve been able to learn, he\u2019s getting mercy because the Cook County state attorney thought that he wouldn\u2019t get any more than community service as a first-time offender.\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re gonna keep the $10,000 he paid, whatever that was for, bail or what have you.\u00a0\u00a0I wonder if — and I\u2019m just speculating here with my mind freely flowing as an American.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m wondering if anybody Chicago, once this trial began, if anybody feared civil unrest?\u00a0\u00a0I wonder if they were concerned that they might lose control of the city when the trial began. Who knows? We don\u2019t know who-all was involved in the actual decision of dropping the charges, but there it is.\u00a0\u00a0The key for me in this is the Chicago police superintendent, Eddie Johnson, who went on national TV to detail the evidence, to detail the commission of the crime, to express his personal disgust over this episode and why it was committed and by whom and for what reasons.<\/p>\n

He was not consulted.\u00a0\u00a0He found out about this just like you and I, via the media. He probably got a flash phone call.\u00a0\u00a0“Hey, Superintendent. They\u2019re dropping charges against the Empire guy.”\u00a0\u00a0“What?”\u00a0\u00a0He had no idea.\u00a0\u00a0Smollett did not apologize for anything he has put people through.\u00a0\u00a0He continues to portray himself as a victim here.\u00a0\u00a0So I wonder how much more we\u2019re gonna learn as this unfolds?\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ll find out just how persistent the media is or whether or not they feel like celebrating this.<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

What are you saying to me in there?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Hmm.\u00a0\u00a0“What communities would it…?”<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Oh, “If the trial had been allowed to proceed, what two communities would have been hurt?”\u00a0\u00a0Well, what two are you thinking of.\u00a0\u00a0African-American, right?\u00a0\u00a0But Democrats as well?\u00a0\u00a0Is that the second thing you\u2019re thinking?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Yeah.\u00a0\u00a0Yeah.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019d be tough.\u00a0\u00a0A trial where somebody actually convicted of falsely accusing people of being Trump supporters of doing…?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Yeah.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s why I say.\u00a0\u00a0The idea of public unrest, riots, whatever you want to call \u2019em, might be factor, but we\u2019re just speculating here.\u00a0\u00a0The fact of the matter remains that it does appear that there is a two-tier justice system here, and that the reason the charges were dropped have nothing to do with the fact that they\u2019re not true.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to Chicago and Jussie Smollett.<\/p>\n

Smollett insists that he told the truth, even though there is video all over the internet of the two Nigerian guys buying the mugging supplies with a $3,200 check for mugging supplies that Smollett wrote. The rope, the bleach, and the red hat. There is store surveillance video of this.<\/p>\n

\"\"The superintendent of police in Chicago went out and faced the nation on national television detailing the charges, expressing his disgust with Smollett and not understanding why somebody in such a successful position would dare do something like this, not only to his own people, but to the city of Chicago.<\/p>\n

So Smollett comes out today and says I\u2019m not lying. I stand by everything I said. Well, let\u2019s see. If Smollett insists that he told the truth, then what does that mean? Well, that means the Chicago police are lying. That means that the superintendent Eddie Johnson is lying. But it doesn\u2019t just mean that. It means that the Chicago police must be corrupt as hell and that the state attorney for Cook County, Kim Foxx, decided she had to clean it up by dropping all the charges because for some reason the Chicago police are corrupt.<\/p>\n

So I guess Kim Foxx and others at the state attorney\u2019s office in Cook County would rather have it look like the police tried to frame Jussie Smollett rather than put Jussie Smollett on trial. I mean, that\u2019s the inescapable conclusion of this. The state attorney, state attorney\u2019s office, Cook County, has decided it\u2019s better for the cops to look corrupt, for the police superintendent to appear to be a liar making it all up and that it look like the cops framed this poor guy rather than put Smollett on trial.<\/p>\n

You know how great this is given how many minorities already believe the police are out to get them like Colin Kaepernick and all the others? Thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement, now the Black Lives Matter movement has been basically stuck up for here. It\u2019s been validated. The Chicago police are corrupt, they are liars, they had it in for this guy is how this must appear.<\/p>\n

Now, reverse the situation. Imagine if a white Trump supporter had staged a hate crime on himself by a couple of black guys, and imagine that there was video surveillance of the black guys buying the stuff necessary to beat up the white Trump supporter. And then to discover that it was a hoax and he was unrepentant. Would the Chicago, Cook County state attorney have given this mythical character any mercy?<\/p>\n

So this police superintendent has to be livid over the choice made by the DA or the state\u2019s attorney\u2019s office in Cook County. They\u2019d rather it appear the cops are corrupt. Look, they\u2019re not telling us why. They\u2019re not telling us why the charges are dropped so people are having to speculate here. But it doesn\u2019t appear that the charges were dropped because they can\u2019t prove them. It appears to be an act of mercy by Kim Foxx, who had recused herself because she knows some people involved. She knows somebody who knows Smollett. Now she\u2019s somehow back involved.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Matthew in Las Vegas.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019re up first, and it\u2019s great to have you.\u00a0\u00a0Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Hey, Rush.\u00a0\u00a0Mega dittos from Las Vegas, Nevada.\u00a0\u00a0How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m good, sir.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you much.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0I think this Smollett thing is nothing more than a tit-for-tat.\u00a0\u00a0You see CNN already talking about “white supremacy.” They even mentioned that Mueller\u2019s white; Trump\u2019s white. This is a typical Chicago mentality.\u00a0\u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0You mean…? Let me see how I can translate that.\u00a0\u00a0You think…? (chuckling) Let me put this in my words.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m gonna tell you how I heard what you just said.\u00a0\u00a0You just say “yes” or “no,” ‘K?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0The state attorney in Cook County hates Donald Trump and cannot stand the fact that Mueller came back with no collusion and that there wasn\u2019t any obstruction and that Trump is gonna get away scot-free.\u00a0\u00a0And if Trump\u2019s gonna get away with it, then the hell if Smollett\u2019s going to jail!\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re not gonna put the black guy in jail if Trump\u2019s getting away it. So the state attorney in Chicago says, “Screw this,” and drops the charges against Smollett because she\u2019s so ticked off that Mueller found nothing on Trump.\u00a0\u00a0Is that what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0100% absolutely.\u00a0\u00a0This is way these liberals think.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Well, I have to —<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s exactly the way they think.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Look, folks, before you discount this… You know, some of you might say, “Come on, that could…”\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re talking today about the modern incarnation of not just the Democrat Party, but the extreme depths to which the American left has plunged.\u00a0\u00a0I think it\u2019s entirely possible.\u00a0\u00a0I have tried over the course of the past two years to tell people how vitriolic and how personal is the hatred for Donald Trump by people on the left.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s beyond rational comprehension, the depth of hatred they harbor. And they\u2019ve harbored it and it has built every day for two years. And they have been led to believe by their trusted sources that Trump is history, that Mueller\u2019s gonna get the goods, that Trump stole the election, that it was Hillary\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0And then the Mueller report comes out.\u00a0\u00a0I cannot tell you…<\/p>\n

I do not have the human ability to describe for you the utter devastation and disappointment and rage and anger some of these people felt.\u00a0\u00a0And if this DA, the state\u2019s attorney… Kim Foxx is one of these Never Trumpers that despises and hates him. I can totally see her, in a fit of pique saying, “I\u2019ll be damned if this cracker, if this Trump is gonna get away with it” and just lets Smollett go as a matter of spite.\u00a0\u00a0I wouldn\u2019t doubt that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We are learning more, as is understandable and predictable, about people involved in the decision in Chicago, the Cook County state\u2019s attorney\u2019s office. Kim Foxx is the state attorney here who has dropped charges against the actor Jussie Smollett. I want to read to you from the official biography on Foxx under a section in which she is described to have \u201cundertaken substantial reform.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFoxx\u2019s accomplishments include overhauling the state\u2019s attorney\u2019s office\u2019s \u2018Conviction Integrity Unit, resulting in overturned convictions in over 20 cases, including the first-ever mass exoneration in Cook County for 15 men whose convictions stemmed from misconduct by a Chicago police officer.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, what can we glean from this? Well, that she may have a problem with the cops. And, of course, if you are a leftist, you probably do have problems with the cops. She also, in addition to not liking the cops, she doesn\u2019t like ICE. Kimberly Foxx \u201curged Chicagoans who want to show their support for immigrants to escort witnesses to court and do what they can to \u2018put their bodies in front\u2019 if Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents try to seize immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the Cook County state attorney was advocating for Chicago citizens to shield and protect illegal immigrants from being apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.<\/p>\n

\"\"And then there is this from the Chicago Sun-Times: \u201cFormer Michelle Obama Aide, Smollett Relative Reached Out to Kim Foxx.<\/a>\u201d Well. Would we be surprised to learn the Obamas might be involved in this? I wouldn\u2019t. “Police Union Wants Federal Investigation Into Kim Foxx\u2019s Handling of Smollett Case.”<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice union wants federal investigation into Kim Foxx\u2019s handling of the case after she exchanged texts with Smollett\u2019s relatives. Just days after Jussie Smollett told Chicago police he had fought off a pair of attackers who targeted him in an apparent hate crime, Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx tried to persuade Police Supt. Eddie Johnson to turn the investigation over to the FBI.\u201d<\/p>\n

You remember that? She wanted the FBI to handle this. The same FBI that ran this scam investigation of Donald Trump. \u201cFoxx\u2019s call to Johnson came after an influential supporter of the Empire actor reached out to Foxx personally: Tina Tchen, a Chicago attorney and former chief of staff for former First Lady Michelle Obama, according to emails and text messages provided by Foxx to the Chicago Sun-Times in response to a public records request.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, translating this, Kim Foxx asked Eddie Johnson, tried to persuade Eddie Johnson to turn the investigation over to the FBI after he had detailed the evidence and his own disgust at this crime and how it wasted the resources of the city of Chicago. He didn\u2019t talk about the damage that had been done to Trump or Trump supporters, but he did refer to all of the insulting damage and costs to the city of Chicago.<\/p>\n

So Kim Foxx tries to get the police superintendent to turn the case over to the FBI after she gets a call from Tina Tchen, a Chicago attorney, former chief of staff for former First Lady Michelle (My Belle) Obama. You think they still got contacts in the FBI at the Obama apparatus here? So this babe, former chief of staff for Michelle (My Belle) Obama calls Kim Foxx trying to get the case moved over to the FBI.<\/p>\n

And now the police union wants a federal investigation into how she\u2019s handled this because she also exchanged text messages with relatives of Jussie Smollett. And finally — I mentioned this in the opening hour. You know, part of this crime is mail fraud. He mailed threatening letters to himself. He mailed threatening letters to the studio where Empire is produced in Chicago. And when that didn\u2019t get the desired reaction — \u2019cause what did Smollett want?<\/p>\n

He wanted the producers and the executives at Fox and at Empire to see this threatening letter to him, threatening damage, threatening to harm him, maybe kill him, he wanted that to be publicized. And they didn\u2019t publicize it. And, by the way, for the record, most of these kinds of things never do get publicized because you don\u2019t want to give the people doing this any notoriety or fame.<\/p>\n

But Smollett was upset so he wrote another letter, this one to himself in an attempt to gain publicity. Well, this is mail fraud, and that is a federal crime. And Fox News is reporting today the FBI is still looking into Jussie Smollett allegedly sending himself a death threat letter through the mail. A spokesperson for the FBI said, \u201cNo comment,\u201d but the off-the-record response was that there is still a serious examination of this.<\/p>\n

We still have people who want to weigh in on this. I\u2019m gonna go to the phones now because I don\u2019t want to move from here to the updates on the Mueller investigation then go to the phones in a few minutes and have people talking about Smollett. So let\u2019s stick with the subject at hand. We have John here on the phone from the south side of Chicago. I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019m glad you got through. How are you, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Fine, sir. And, Rush, welcome. This is Chicago, where ballot harvesting was created.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Anyway, Rush, I\u2019m surprised this one got past you. The superintendent now of the Chicago Police Department, he is appointed by the mayor. He is the mayor\u2019s handpicked person. This whole thing doesn\u2019t pass the smell test. He\u2019s not elected. And he\u2019s given his talking points by the mayor\u2019s office on what to say on every high-profile case.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute now, whoa, whoa — so when Eddie Johnson, the superintendent, went out and detailed the crime and expressed his disgust at Smollett, that was actually Rahm Emanuel dictating to him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct. And I thought he was just trying — because he\u2019s gonna be out of office in a couple months. I thought he was just trying to network himself out there to be the next police chief somewhere else. But I spoke with a Northwestern law professor and he goes, \u201cYou know why he did that?\u201d I said, \u201cYeah, he\u2019s trying to find a new job.\u201d He said, \u201cNo. He\u2019s trying to damage the case.\u201d They don\u2019t want to see him go. And the more he talks about it, the more he goes on Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos\u2019s network there, the more he goes on NBC and talks about it the more it damages the case where a change of venue or a change of jury, if it went that way, was gonna be needed. You follow?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, I follow that, but take me back to the beginning of this. So the motivation — you\u2019re saying that Rahm Emanuel tells Eddie Johnson to go on TV, start talking about the case, pollute the jury pool, do everything you can to damage the case —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — because we don\u2019t want this case. So Eddie Johnson was just following orders. He wasn\u2019t telling us what he thinks. He was saying what Emanuel wanted him to say, which I guess we\u2019re to conclude from you that Rahm Emanuel wanted the case to have to be dropped or go away?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Obviously we don\u2019t have the empirical evidence, but I\u2019ll let you use your imagination on this. Who has access to Rahm? Obama and Hillary. Whoever Smollett\u2019s connected to. This was a way for them to get rid of it, it was headed in that direction. Now, Kim Foxx, who\u2019s a scumbag state\u2019s attorney from the get go, just got rid of it just now. And the reason being is \u2019cause there are many, many, many bogus case reports out there in the city of Chicago and not enough manpower to follow up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you don\u2019t think that Eddie Johnson\u2019s really livid about this because —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — he\u2019s just been following orders all along and this is how he gets his next job?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Exactly. That\u2019s where I was going with this. But then the Northwestern law professor —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, if that\u2019s true, then Eddie Johnson is good. This guy at his press conferences made everybody believe that he was personally offended by this, that he was seriously disgusted by it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep. Now, you\u2019re the one that taught us this, Rush. It doesn\u2019t pass the smell test. Self-appointed Rahm Emanuel police superintendent and he\u2019s gonna come up like this? No. No way. And especially with the amount of activists that he put in, that he hired \u2013<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Well, then why wouldn\u2019t…? When Kim Foxx drops the charges, then —<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0— why wouldn\u2019t she dump on the police over it? “Look, I can\u2019t take this case forward. The cops have been out there polluting my case and destroying it.\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019ve screwed up with the jury pool.\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019ve convinced everybody the defendant here is guilty.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a miscarriage of justice.”\u00a0\u00a0Why wouldn\u2019t she say that instead of just letting everybody speculate like we\u2019re doing here?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Well, she still may.\u00a0\u00a0She\u2019s not gonna go after Eddie Johnson because they circled the wagons among the powerful, but she will go after the investigators or the police that took the original case report and that type of thing.\u00a0\u00a0But she won\u2019t go after the superintendent.\u00a0\u00a0She\u2019ll go after those who did the research on it. She\u2019ll go after them, if that makes sense to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0So you\u2019re telling us that the nature of the evidence here is irrelevant, and it\u2019s gonna be erased, and it\u2019s not ever gonna see the light of day again, and that\u2019s why Smollett doesn\u2019t apologize. That\u2019s why he can continue to go out there and insist he didn\u2019t do it because he\u2019s gonna be backed up all the way to the mayor\u2019s office and maybe to the office of Michelle (My Belle) Obama?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Now, we are speculating on that, but if the Feds do get involved, I would love for them, love for them to put a warrant out on Kim Foxx\u2019s phone and get a hold of that and then the truth will be there.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Now, look, we\u2019re really going far afield here.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Well, that\u2019s just it.\u00a0\u00a0But remember there are thousands upon thousands of bogus case reports here in Chicago, and if this is Smollett\u2019s first offense, nothing\u2019s happened to those thousands —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Wait a minute now.\u00a0\u00a0Are you saying that you think the case report here may be bogus?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Yes!\u00a0\u00a0Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Wait.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019re saying that you think Smollett may not have done this?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Absolutely he didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And so —<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0He did… I mean, he did create a phony story, and he notified the police — and in doing so, he made a bogus case report.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Oh, okay.\u00a0\u00a0So the case report\u2019s real based on what he said.\u00a0\u00a0He did lie about it.\u00a0\u00a0He did make this all up.\u00a0\u00a0Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not saying that it\u2019s that\u2019s stacked against him?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0No.\u00a0\u00a0And absolutely.\u00a0\u00a0And what should happen to a first time offender who makes a bogus case report?\u00a0\u00a0Something that happens to other people who made a bogus case report here in Chicago: Nothing.\u00a0\u00a0And that\u2019s all you basically have.\u00a0\u00a0But, Rush, I gotta invite you.\u00a0\u00a0You gotta come down to Chicago and straighten some people out around here.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s getting crazy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What? (chuckling) But you started the call saying you can\u2019t believe how I missed this!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I — I — I —<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0How in the hell can I straighten anything out —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: — if I\u2019m such an idiot that I didn\u2019t see this?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0No. No one\u2019s calling you an idiot. You\u2019re about as sharp as they come, my guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0All right. Let me review this, because you saying —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When you say “bogus case report,” I hear something different than the way you\u2019re using it.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0When I hear bogus case report, I\u2019m hearing that somebody lied on the case report.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.\u00a0\u00a0Well, but you\u2019re saying Smollett did the deed. He faked the attack. He paid the two guys to go buy the mugging supplies, everything. So why is the case report bogus?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Because the event never happened.\u00a0\u00a0The incident never happened.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s something that he drummed up and just concocted in his head.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0But then it\u2019s not the case report that\u2019s bogus.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s Smollett that\u2019s bogus.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Correct.\u00a0\u00a0But the amount of case reports that are out there that are frivolous, that never really occurred in the city are in the thousand dollars, and nothing happened to those people who did those case reports. So why should anything happen to Smollett?\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s what Kim Foxx, I believe, is basing her judgment on.\u00a0\u00a0But I\u2019m speculating here.\u00a0\u00a0Do you follow my train of thought on that?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Yeah, I think mostly I do.\u00a0\u00a0I think —<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0But don\u2019t kid yourself with the superintendent.\u00a0\u00a0He is wired deep as deep can come to the Democratic way of doing things.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Okay, then answer me this.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Admittedly, we are speculating but you seem to have an experienced insider\u2019s knowledge of the Chicago way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ha! (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what would be the interest from, let\u2019s just say, Michelle Obama. We know that her former chief of staff made a phone call to Foxx. So we know that she\u2019s involved here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We know they tried to get the case transferred to the FBI.\u00a0\u00a0Now you tell us that Eddie Johnson is not who we think he is, that he\u2019s actually out there corrupting the case by being so public about the details, creating a biased jury in the process or jury pool.\u00a0\u00a0Where are all these people so interested in Smollett not being charged and getting away with this?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0\u00a0Because he reached out for a favor.\u00a0\u00a0Whoever he sent his contacts to reach out to the powerful people, he\u2019s looking for a favor.\u00a0\u00a0He\u2019s looking to maintain, rather, his job. He\u2019s looking to maintain his status in society, and he doesn\u2019t need — he doesn\u2019t need a criminal case on him.<\/p>\n