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In an op-ed for The Chicago Tribune, Foxx admitted that a third-party review into the high-profile case would help maintain transparency, something she pretends to welcome with open adipose arms.
The surprise decision to drop all 16 charges on Tuesday, followed by Smollett's refusals to apologize along with claims of his innocence and complete exoneration, was followed by an immediate rebuke from Chicago's mayor Rahm Emanuel and police superintendent Eddie T. Johnson. Both men said that it was a "whitewash of justice" which subsequently put pressure on the state's attorney's office to defend its whitewash actions.
“I am not perfect, nor is any other prosecutor out there, but ensuring that I and my office have our community’s trust is paramount,” Foxx, who ran on a platform of transparency, wrote.
Foxx also initially said she recused herself from the Smollett case and later stated that she didn't mean "recuse-recuse," she was merely being colloquial and only meant 'recuse'. The question is, how can anyone use the legal term 'recuse' in a colloquial way?
Smollett is accused of staging an anti-gay, racist attack on himself in January in order to promote his career. He has denied the charges from the start and says two men approached him at 2 a.m. during a polar vortex, beat him, threw bleach they apparently had on him and tied a rope around his neck before shouting, "This is MAGA country," in reference to President Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."
Yes. We are to believe that while most people were at home in their warm beds, two white Trump supporters IN CHICAGO knew who Smollett is because they watch "Empire" like all good Trump supporters, had bleach and a rope with them, and attacked him.
We are also to believe that in during the entire "attack," Smollett held onto his Subway sandwich, left the rope around his neck and waited 40 minutes to call the cops. And we are expected to believe that after he told the cops that he spoke with his boss when the attack occurred, but refused to give up his phone to them so they could check, that he was telling the truth.
And we are expected to believe that the two Nigerian men who he knew, who bought red hats [not MAGA hats--they're impossible to buy in Chicago], rope and bleach, prior to the attack, and that Smollett had written them a check for three thousand dollars, [not a Mensa move], and who subsequently told law enforcement that Smollett hired him to attack him, that he is innocent?
In order to investigate the alleged hate crime, the city removed 24 detectives from their regular cases, expending up to 1,000 hours to hunt down the truth.
“In determining whether or not to pursue charges, prosecutors are required to balance the severity of the crime against the likelihood of securing a conviction,” Foxx wrote. “For a variety of reasons ... my office believed the likelihood of securing a conviction was not certain.”
Yeah, and OJ is still looking for the killer of his wife.
According to sources, including my own source, Vinny Bagadonuts, the grand jury was willing to indict Smollett with a sliver of evidence the Chicago PD provided to them.
Foxx said Smollett’s “alleged unstable actions have probably caused him more harm than any court-ordered penance could.” Boo hoo. But she added that jails should be reserved for those who commit violent crimes, which is not her call to make, and it's blatantly false.
Her defense isn't swaying many people.
"Foxx could have distanced herself from this blunder given that her own blunder — emailing and texting with people close to Smollett early in the investigation — had prompted her to step away from the case and leave it to underlings," Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn wrote. "But she grabbed ownership of it Wednesday, giving interviews in which she expressed pride and confidence in the way her office had handled the case."
Zorn, like so many others in Chicago, believe Foxx "probably will and arguably should lose her job next year over her office's handling of the Jussie Smollett case." Some believe she should lose her license to practice law.
Foxx's actions also prompted both the National District Attorneys Association and the Illinois Prosecutors bar Association to sharply criticize her office.
President Trump obviously waded into the controversy because he cannot help himself, saying he would asked federal law enforcement officials to look into Smollett's case right after he asks them to check out whether Adam Schiff was the guy caught on camera jay walking on J Street.
“I think the case in Chicago is an absolute embarrassment to our country, and I have asked that they look at it,” Trump said.
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