{"id":300712,"date":"2019-02-22T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=300712"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:08:56","slug":"trump-gets-the-blame-for-smolletts-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/22\/trump-gets-the-blame-for-smolletts-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"As Predicted, Trump Blamed for Smollett\u2019s Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Jussie Smollett: The story that just won\u2019t go away. The latest is that the Empire producers have made the decision he\u2019s not going to appear on the final two episodes of the season. A lot of people are upset that the clown hasn\u2019t been fired. You remember Roseanne, her gargantuanly rated TV show, her comeback show? The first episode was pro-Trump, rates 30 million viewers in the first night. Then she tweets something out about Valerie Jarrett and they fire her — after one tweet!<\/p>\n

\"\"And then they try to go on the TV show with everybody on the cast except her, and the show kind of falters, as you would expect. Here\u2019s Jussie Smollett, and some of the cast are circling the wagons. The mayor of Chicago is circling the wagons, criticizing the media for a rush to judgment. The media? For crying out loud, the media did everything they could to protect this guy! Is everybody ignoring what the prosecutor read, that four-page list of charges and behavior yesterday?<\/p>\n

I actually think, ladies and gentlemen, that it\u2019s beginning to look like the Chicago PD<\/a> and some others are wrong to conclude that what he did this for was to get more money. I mean, I guess it\u2019s possible it was a factor. Everybody wants more money. But, according to the Hollywood Reporter, his current rate is about $130,000, $125,000 an episode. It was originally reported that he was getting 65 grand an episode, but that\u2019s not true. It\u2019s actually twice that, which puts him on a par with other actors.<\/p>\n

Apparently, he\u2019s never even asked for a raise. The Hollywood Reporter also claims that, neither Jussie Smollett nor his agent have ever asked for a raise, and Smollett has never — at least it\u2019s never been seen or heard — had any dissatisfaction with his salary. So I think we have to look elsewhere for a motive, and I think his motive is politics, because everything on the left is politics (it\u2019s corrupted everything that they do) and his desire to become a hero for the left.<\/p>\n

I have a story here that I don\u2019t think too many people know about yet. This is from the archives of the New York Times<\/a>. Let\u2019s go back here to March 9, 2016, New York Times, three years ago. It shows that Smollett was from a family of radical left-wing activists. In fact, his mother was heavily involved with the old Black Panthers. Not the new clowns, but the old Black Panthers. I mean, the real bad dudes from way, way back in the \u201960s. These guys palled around with the Weather Underground of Bill… Obama\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What\u2019s his name? Bill…? Not Gates. Bill Ayers. She is still best friends with Angela Davis, Smollett\u2019s mom is. One of Angela Davis\u2019 many “historic achievements” was that she “purchased the firearms that were used in a 1970 armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California. Four people were killed. [Angela Davis] was prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, but she was acquitted, thanks to jury nullification.”<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s who Smollett\u2019s mom best bud is.<\/p>\n

“When Jussie Smollett and Jurnee Smollett-Bell were growing up, bouncing with their parents and four siblings between New York and Los Angeles, as the kids pursued careers in modeling, acting and music, their downtime was just another chance for performance and togetherness. … ‘Their sense of justice is very strong, and it permeates everything that they do,\u2019 said Alfre Woodard, who has known Jussie and Jurnee since they were children; they worked with her at the nonprofit Artists for a New South Africa. …<\/p>\n

“The Smolletts have also been outspoken politically and, since their school years, devoted to causes like HIV\/AIDS prevention and ending Apartheid. They were raised in the orbit of the Black Panthers and, lately, have lent their voices to the Black Lives Matter movement. Their trajectory, from child stars to successful adults, is born of their family and its history of activism. … An African-American from New Orleans, Ms. Smollett [Jussie\u2019s mother] met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew…”<\/p>\n

As I pointed out yesterday, this guy is a black Russian, Smollett is. He\u2019s half white, half black. His father is Russian. So does that make him a Russian spy? Smollett\u2019s mother “met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew, in the Bay Area, where they campaigned for civil rights.” Who didn\u2019t? “‘My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,\u2019 Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.<\/p>\n

“‘To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We\u2019ve spent Mother\u2019s Day with Angela.'” (laughs) Well, how cute! So the only point here is the idea that this guy is doing what he\u2019s doing for more money is something that I think everybody has missed, including the Chicago PD<\/a>. You have Jussie Smollett, and let\u2019s lump him in with his fellow travelers, shall we? Let\u2019s lump him in with James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, John Brennan, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and all of these conspirators attempting to overthrow the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n

\"\"They all hate Trump, and they all took steps to set Trump up to appear to be something he isn\u2019t. Every damned one of these people. This is the crowd Jussie Smollett belongs in. They all hate Donald Trump, and they all took steps to set Trump up to appear to be something he isn\u2019t. He isn\u2019t a racist any more than he pays prostitutes to pee on beds in Moscow.<\/p>\n

He isn\u2019t a racist any more than he conspires with Vladimir Putin or is mentally incapacitated to carry out the duties of his office. A gigantic and total smear job, borne of the poison of hatred that these people harbor — all lies perpetrated by liars to feather their own beds. Jussie Smollett wanted to be part of the cabal that took down Donald Trump. Federal bureaucrats wanted job security and advancement with a President Clinton and cover for their crimes.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I made a prediction yesterday. It\u2019s coming true in spades. Audio sound bite number 5.<\/p>\n

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RUSH ARCHIVE: [T]hey\u2019ve gotta come up with a way of, quote-unquote, “credibly justifying their rush to judgment on this.” And I can pretty much tell you what it\u2019s gonna be. \u201cIn this climate created by Donald Trump \u2013\u201d and they\u2019ll talk about what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, when Donald Trump refused to criticize a bunch of white racists in that whole confab there. “Donald Trump has created this atmosphere where people are so enraged, and they are so out of sorts and they\u2019re acting so abnormally, that we\u2019ve got to do something about Donald Trump.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, granted that may not be a prediction that\u2019s unique and somebody else couldn\u2019t come up with it. But I did predict it, and boy, is it happening in spades. Washington Post, Jonathan “Capehart: Even if Smollett Story Is False, There\u2019s Still an ‘Atmosphere of Fear'”<\/a> out there. This is a replay of how they handled the made-up story about rape at the University of Virginia, the Rolling Stone story when it was exposed, entirely made up and fraudulent. The woman that wrote the story said (summarized), “Well, yeah, maybe, but that\u2019s not the point.<\/p>\n

“The point is, it\u2019s happening out there, and this story was meant to call attention to it and to raise consciousness about the rapes that women are facing all over American college campuses.” Yeah, but… But you wrote wasn\u2019t true. “Doesn\u2019t matter. Doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s happening out there, and this story calls attention to it. ” It\u2019s exactly what Capehart is doing. “Even if Smollett Story Is False, There\u2019s Still an ‘Atmosphere of Fear'” out there because of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\"\"Just as I predicted, even if the Smollett “hoax story is false, it still indicates the level of racial ‘menace\u2019 and ‘fear\u2019 in the United States” brought to us, of course, by Donald Trump. And, of course, this article quotes Capehart and a CBS this morning cohost parroting the claim that hate crimes are up anywhere from 10% to 17% under Trump. I mean, they are going all in on this. Even though this may have been a hoax, it\u2019s happening, and it\u2019s worse than ever.<\/p>\n

Now from the Advocate mag. This is a gay magazine, gay publication. The editor of Advocate, Zach Stafford, “suggested that the Chicago Police Department leaked information to harm Jussie Smollett because the police officers support President Donald Trump<\/a>.” A couple of pull quotes. “Stafford then suggested that the Chicago Police Department leaked information to make Smollett look bad because they support Trump, conveniently ignoring the fact that it was Smollett who called the police in the first place to report what officers are now saying was a staged attack.”<\/p>\n

Never mind the fact that the Chicago PD left Trump out of this as one of Smollett\u2019s motivations, which I think was the only thing wrong with the Chicago PD press conference yesterday. They said he dragged Chicago through the mud and made the police chief and police department waste resources. The whole thing was aimed at Donald Trump! The entire Smollett episode was aimed at Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

He tried to create this story, and he wanted video where a couple of Trump supporters beat him up because he\u2019s gay and black. Clearly Donald Trump was the target. The police chief didn\u2019t even say this. Here is another quote from the Advocate: \u201cMany people have felt that they have been so willing to call this a hoax, is because the central question of this case is, \u2018Are Donald Trump supporters out here committing hate crimes?\u2019 And that\u2019s what really sparked a lot of the tension,” says the editor of the Advocate.<\/p>\n

“To have a police department that hasn\u2019t been as cooperative as they have been this round, do not openly give information, do openly lie and mishold (sic) information in cases and then to know that they have openly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election, a lot of activists on the ground are saying, \u2018Wait, what\u2019s going on here?'” Who do we believe out of these two people? Really? The central question of the Smollett case is: Are Donald Trump supporters out here committing hate crimes? No. Donald Trump supporters and conservatives are the victims of hate crimes.<\/p>\n

Turning Point USA had a conservative recruitment rally out at Berkeley, and one of them got beat up yesterday. It\u2019s all over Campus Reform<\/a>, the conservative… The kids from Covington wearing MAGA hats. Look what happened to them. The Trump people are not beating people to smithereens. It\u2019s another way around. Another pull quote: The editor of the Advocate “twisted himself into pretzels trying to rationalize and make excuses for Smollett\u2019s actions, even saying at one point that ‘Jussie may have created this whole situation to highlight a reality that is happening every day…'”<\/p>\n