'Just sit this one out': Chicago mayor tells Trump... says he'll bill Jussie for police cost

Daily Mail ^ | 3/28 | JENNIFER SMITH

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'Just sit this one out': Chicago mayor tells Trump not to get involved in Jussie Smollett probe and says he will give the Empire actor a bill for the police investigation into 'hoax'

• Rahm Emanuel told Trump to 'sit this one out' when discussing the Smollett case
• He also said he would give the actor a bill for the cost of the investigation
• Emanuel says the cost of the police probe into the January 29 attack is around $150,000
• He said city lawyers were still totaling up the final cost and would send Smollett's team a letter with it Smollett agreed to forfeit $10,000 in bond on Tuesday and had his charges dropped
• Emanuel called it a 'whitewash of justice' and said he wants the Empire actor to be accountable in some way
• Smollett maintains he did nothing wrong and claims the charges being dropped exonerates him
• Prosecutors say they still think he is guilty but that it was an 'alternative prosecution'

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has told Trump to 'sit out' the Jussie Smollett fallout after the president called it an' embarrassment to our nation'.

He also revealed that he would be sending Smollett a bill to recoup some of the money spent on the investigation into the allegedly staged attack and that the city's lawyers were in the process of totaling up the final cost.

The city's lawyers are still totaling up the amount that was spent but he said on Wednesday that it was be around $150,000, 15 times what Smollett paid.

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Crazy world, but I conditionally agree with that sniveling weasel Rahm. This is a liberal shitshow - with Rahm and the unions fighting with the hard left female prosecutor of color about the influence of Michelle Obama's COS plus the money Soros has thrown in. It's a whirlwind of hell for the left. Trump should just grab his popcorn.

[Lurker]

President Trump to Rahm:

“No.”

L

[max americana]

not only that, we’re talking about the same fbi who tried a coup d etat on Trump.

[chris37]

I want everyone involved in the blackwashing of this racist criminal assh0le’s record thrown in prison.

[2banana]

Never let a crisis go to waste - you clown of a mayor

[thoughtomator]

Why would Trump not want every sordid and corrupt little detail of this affair exposed to the world?

It’s the hard reality of Democratic rule, plain for the whole world to see.

Of course we want maximum exposure of every aspect of this.

[Cicero]

“It’s the Chicago way!”

[2banana]

Bail is not supposed to be a bribe.

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“He said city lawyers were still totaling up the final cost and would send Smollett’s team a letter with it Smollett agreed to forfeit $10,000 in bond on Tuesday and had his charges dropped”

[IC Ken]

I trust Rahm as much as I would trust Hillary. Rahm will do nothing. He is buying time hoping this blows over.

[HombreSecreto]

Concur. If there were Federal laws violated, the Mayor of Chicago has no say.

I would burst out laughing if Trump tweeted to Rahm, “Stay in your lane, bro.”

[V_TWIN]

Interesting reaction by Emanuel considering how upset he “seemed” to be. Sounds like the Prez is calling his bluff to me.

[The Toll]

Uh.......NO.

[SMARTY]

When Chitown runs into it's very predictable (immanent) log jam on finances, etc... and they ask DC for $$$$

Trump can say "I'll sit this one out!"

[Magnum44]

Maybe Rahm doesn’t want federal investigators poking around for fear of what they might find...

[The Toll]

He knows who is responsible!

[klb99]

“Crazy world, but I conditionally agree with that sniveling weasel Rahm.”

Nope...I say he’s been told by BO that this is too close and to drop it as quickly and quietly as he can.....this whole drama stinks to high heaven.

[originalbuckeye]

Why does anyone believe that Soros won’t foot the bill from the cops?? Smollett needs to somehow pay for his CRIMES. And stuffing envelopes for Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition doesn’t count!

[Reily]

There’s a potential federal mail fraud issue here.
There is no reason fro USG to sit it out. Period!

[treetopsandroofs]

Rahmmy is an enemy combatant of the United States, and not to be trusted with dish washing or trash pickup.