BREAKING: Jussie Smollett and others may have a lot of 'splainin' to do

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Chicago -- Cook County Judge Michael Toomin appointed a special prosecutor, former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb on Friday to head the investigation into the handling of the Jussie Smollett fake racism case.

Webb will specifically investigate the 16 criminal charges against the gay actor that were dropped and can reinstate the charges and possible add additional charges against Smollett.

"Webb gained prominence for his lead role during the Operation Greylord investigations into judicial corruption in Cook County," as reported by Fox 32. "He served as special counsel in the Iran-Contra affair and was previously appointed by Judge Toomin in the death of David Koschman."

Webb told reporters on Friday: "I don't know where this case is going. The facts will take me where they take me." Or, in the words of the immortal Doris Day, "que sera, sera."

Ironically but not surprisingly, Cook County leftists endorse Kim Foxx for re-election, which should tell you all you need to know about Chicago Democrats.

Toomin ruled that a special prosecutor was needed in the case because "Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx had no authority to hand [the case] off to her top deputy after announcing she recused herself," CBS News Chicago reported. Ironically, Foxx has been given

"Foxx had been in contact with a Smollett relative and was approached by former first lady Michelle Obama's one-time chief of staff on behalf of Smollett's family," Fox 6 reported. "Foxx also publicly wondered if her being black has anything to do with the criticism she has received."

Yes, cry racism whenever your integrity or competence is in question. That should further the case for racial equality via the racism of lower expectations.

Smollett claimed to police on January 29, that he was walking home from a Subway fast food restaurant very late at night, or very early in the morning, when two masked men attacked him and shouted racist and homophobic slurs at him. Smollett further alleged that one of the attackers told him he was in "MAGA country." 

Chicago. MAGA country? Two masked men out at 2:30 a.m. with rope and red hats [they couldn't get MAGA hats in Chicago] yelling "this is MAGA country!" Sure. Sounds as believable as someone claiming to see Jerry Nadler in a MAGA hat walking down Broadway.

Weeks later, authorities claimed that Smollett paid two black friends $3,500 to help him stage the attack on himself because he was not satisfied with earning up to $125,000 per episode of a TV show on which he starred that few people watched. 

And the idiot Smollett paid by the friends by personal check. All he needed to do for the cherry on top was to put in the "Memo" section of the check "For pretending to attack me while yelling racial slurs."

In June, after Toomin ruled that a special prosecutor would be appointed in the case, the Chicago Police Department doubled down on its claim that Smollett "fabricated" the "incident."

Anthony Guglielmi, chief communications officer for the Chicago Police Department, tweeted at the time: "We stand firmly behind the work of detectives in investigating the fabricated incident reported by Jussie Smollett & #ChicagoPolice will fully cooperate with the court appointed special prosecutor."



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