Rush Limbaugh Connects the Dots on Jussie Smollett Case: 'It Doesn't Make Any Sense!'
Confused about Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx’s strange decision to drop all charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett in exchange for forfeiture of his $10,000 bond and some community service with Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition?
You’re not alone. Rush Limbaugh was a bit confused, too.
On his Friday show, however, he tried to connect the dots after a caller mentioned the strange associations of the Chicago’s state’s attorney and Smollett’s connections to top Democratic figures.
For instance, California Sen. Kamala Harris is a friend of Smollett’s and was one of his biggest supporters when the supposed “attack” first happened. The presidential contender is also one of Foxx’s mentors, according to CBS Chicago.
However, Limbaugh noted that there were deeper connections at play here — citing, it must be noted, a piece from The Western Journal.
That piece mentioned former Chicago prosecutor and Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett, whose theory is that someone very high up had pulled some strings with the prosecutor and helped get the charges dropped.
“None of this is normal — even for Crook County where I was an Assistant State’s Attorney. Educated guess: this hoax implicated someone very important who had pull with the State’s Attorney, and who very badly did not want to be implicated,” Barnett had tweeted.
None of this is normal—even for Crook County where I was an Assistant State’s Attorney. Educated guess: this hoax implicated someone very important who had pull with the State’s Attorney, and who very badly did not want to be implicated. https://t.co/HyACqBMGoW
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 27, 2019
Barnett was retweeting ABC News’ Terry Moran, who had tweeted that “Cook County clerk’s office tells @ABC they were shocked that no written motions were filed with the court in connection with today’s surprising dismissal in the Smollett case. On top of that, the case has been wiped off their database as if it never existed.”
Rush noted that Barnett was speculating that there was someone behind the scenes who was involved in the Smollett hoax at some level and wanted it all hushed up.
“There’s somebody here very important who had pull with the state attorney who does not want to be implicated,” Limbaugh said. “OK. Could that be somebody who arranged this hoax? Remember the people that arranged this obviously thought it’s a slam dunk. ‘We’re gonna get away with it.’ Remember, these people believe the lies they tell each other.”
He also quoted The Western Journal’s Ben Marquis: “In the end, we may never know if there was some very important person behind the scenes that pulled Foxx’s strings with regard to Smollett, should the case remain closed and all files sealed,” Marquis wrote. “However, given the fact that the FBI is reportedly now taking a close look at how the case was handled, there could very well be some VIPs sweating anxiously at the thought of being implicated in the cover-up of a hate crime hoax.”
“It’s also being posited here that the powerful figure that Barnett’s referring to, the VIP, might have gotten to Rahm Emanuel to change the direction of his anger,” Limbaugh said.
“He starts out really ticked off at Smollett, sends Smollett a bill for $130,000, rips Smollett a new one. All of a sudden the next day it’s Trump’s fault. You know, I have to tell you, I was stunned. The show’s on the air and Rahm is doing his press conference with the police superintendent, they’re going after Smollett, (I) said, ‘This doesn’t make sense. There’s no way a ranking white Democrat mayor’s gonna go after a black guy like this. They’re just not gonna do it! It doesn’t make any sense!’
“And Rahm’s going about this in exactly the way that you would think a law-and-order person would. This is a bastardization of law and order. This is two-tier justice, somebody scams a system with a hoax getting away with it, and he’s ripping into a young and handsome and virile black gay guy,” Limbaugh continued. “You don’t think Rahm Emanuel heard about that? ‘Rahm, what the hell are you doing, dude?’ So the next day Rahm goes out there and all of a sudden now it’s Trump’s fault.”
Limbaugh also mentioned that Smollett had been nominated for an NAACP Image Award. (He didn’t win.)
“Now, on the one sense, it makes sense because Democrats fail up. Resume is enhanced as a Democrat by doing dumb, stupid things and getting caught. Failure is a resume enhancement of the Democrat side,” Limbaugh said.
However, Limbaugh noted that “Smollett does not have the full-throated support of Democrats. He’s got some of them. But there’s still a lot of people that are really bent out of shape about this because it’s not something that they could get,” and suggested that the award nomination was meant as a way of propping the actor up.
(The nominations were announced Feb. 13, the same day police executed a raid on the two brothers implicated in the hoax attack and long after Smollett’s story had begun to fall apart.)
As for the NAACP, Limbaugh said, “whether it’s their own idea or somebody influencing them to do it, they’ve now diminished themselves trying to reposition this guy as a victim! He is a wealthy, handsome, virile African-American gay guy, Hollywood actor. Everybody knows it. The victim card doesn’t work, but they’re trying it anyway — and, unlike Trump, Jussie has not been exonerated.”
“The stench around this whole sordid tale is thick, and it reeks of fake. So Jussie Smollett, in the end, what has he done? Has he harmed Trump? Has he damaged Trump? Has he damaged the Republican Party as a bunch of racist pigs? Well, there aren’t any Republicans in this story. This is Chicago.
“Jussie Smollett has advanced nothing other than corruption, and we will, in all likelihood, know more about it someday,” Limbaugh concluded. “I think we’re gonna find out about this at some point. There are too many people whose noses are bent out of joint here who are being impugned.”
Rush nailed it.
If this was corruption, if there were strings being pulled, Foxx needs to be removed from office and face other forms of censure. If not, I’m not sure that the outcome ought to be that much different — it’s just a question of the magnitude of the punishment.
Even if there was no illegality involved, this is one of the biggest legal ball-drops in quite some time. Smollett allegedly committed a hoax designed to make an entire group of people look like irredeemable racists and got next to nothing in terms of punishment.
That’s an outrage and it needs to be paid for.
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