...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country!while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom...
fiasco couldn’t get any worse, it quite clearly can.
At least for her. But not for the people of Cook County. It was a great day for the people.
And it was a great day for retired appellate Judge Sheila O’Brien, who figured, like so many of you, that Foxx’s handling of the Smollett case and her office’s decision to drop the charges against him smelled like the gutters in an alley off the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
Way.
On Friday, Cook County Judge Michael Toomin ruled in support of O’Brien’s petition that a special prosecutor be appointed to reinvestigate the Smollett mess. And he mocked Foxx’s "creative lawyering."
This could lead to new charges against Smollett, the Hollywood actor and Obama Celebrity Friend, whom Foxx inexplicably cut loose even after a grand jury indicted him for allegedly faking a racial/political hate crime that became a national media sensation in part because he blamed it all on supporters of President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat
The Smartest Woman in the Worldin the general election...
But Toomin’s ruling also allows the special prosecutor to delve into Foxx’s own handling of the case, meaning that Foxx and her people may also be questioned, under oath.
Foxx has a big political fundraiser coming up. That will be fun, to hear social justice warriors stand and rally to her side about how great she is for not prosecuting accused criminals like Jussie Smollett, even as she’s being investigated herself.
"Thanks to Judge Toomin’s ruling, we’ll get the truth," O’Brien told me over the phone Friday. "We’ll get the whole truth, all of it, everything and it will be under oath."
Are you happy?
"Yes," O’Brien said. "Because now we’ll have testimony under oath."
We were on the phone, but it was clear the words "under oath" were in italics.
Recent news stories speculating about her possible motives sounded as if they were hatched by Foxx’s political backers and media spinners. I asked O’Brien directly if she would run for state’s attorney.
"No," O’Brien said. "You’re all asking me that, but I am not running for office."
You’re not?
"No," she said. "I am, however, going to lunch."
And she laughed a light, happy laugh.