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“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s legal troubles are apparently over.
In the most blatant example of ‘celebrity justice’ since Hillary Clinton dodged an indictment in 2016, Chicago prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against Smollett, who was alleged to have staged an attack and falsely claimed he was the victim of a vicious hate crime.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted the decision, calling it a “whitewash of justice.”
According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats said in a telephone interview that the office reached an unwritten deal with the defense in recent weeks to drop the charges if Smollett performed community service and forfeited his $100,000 bond.
“The bottom line is, we stand behind the investigation, we stand behind the decision to charge him,” Magats told the Tribune. “The fact that (Smollett) feels that we have exonerated him, we have not. I can’t make it any clearer than that.”
Fox News and Fox Nation’s Jesse Watters, host of “Watters’ World” and co-host of “The Five” offered his own explanation for why Smollett walked with little more than a slap on the wrist during an appearance on the Hammer and Nigel show Tuesday.
Watters:
“We obviously know what happened. The guy’s well connected. Michele Obama’s Chief of Staff made a few phone calls; the D.A. who was originally assigned to the case had to recuse – she’s Soros funded, she took about $300K from one of his super pacs; and listen, the guy’s a celebrity, he’s got a lot of money, he checks all the identity politics boxes, and he got a special deal.”
Click the link below to hear Hammer and Nigel’s full interview with Jesse Watters.
