If it please the court: Watch Jussie Smollett in an Obama White House video

[The Purge]

In Chicago we have a saying: We don’t want nobody nobody sent.

But Jussie Smollett isn’t a nobody, is he?

He’s a somebody. And I’ve just seen an Obama White House video — in which Smollett gets a big shoutout from then-President Barack Obama — to prove it.

So, if it please the court, I’d like to have this video marked as “Exhibit A.”

“Has everybody had a good time tonight?” Obama asked the audience at a 2016 White House event. “… Jussie Smollett!”

Smollett smiled and clapped, beaming with excitement. Who wouldn’t be beaming after performing for the president and the first lady?

It was obvious that he was having good time. Clearly, he was becoming somebody. A real Hollywood somebody, star of the TV show “Empire” with important connections.

Smollett became such a somebody that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office inexplicably cut him loose from criminal charges, dropping 16 grand jury counts against him for allegedly fabricating a racial hate crime and blaming it all on supporters of President Donald Trump.

Well, it’s almost inexplicable. Foxx did admit she had inappropriate contact with the Smollett family and with Tina Tchen, a top lawyer and former chief of staff for Michelle Obama.

Foxx said she recused herself from the case because of the questionable contacts. But in reality, she hadn’t. And then she dropped the whole thing.

Hate crime? What hate crime?

Tuna sandwich? The one Smollett kept with him even after fighting those MAGA racists? What tuna sandwich?

What MAGA racists? Those body building brothers, the Osundairos? What Osundairos?

When Foxx mysteriously dropped all the charges, it smelled so badly that retired Illinois Appellate Judge Sheila O’Brien was compelled to petition the courts and ask for a special prosecutor.

O’Brien has asked Foxx to appear at

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“...It was a fantastic show. The president and the first lady were cool, singing and dancing and having fun. Finally, President Obama said the goodbyes.

If I were directing, I’d have had the White House press corps — which loved Obama and still carries a torch for him — sing a few songs of farewell too.

They’d do a great job singing that Celine Dion love song “My Heart Will Go On,” from Titanic.”

They sang that one to him for eight years, and most are still singing it to this day, with tears.”

 

[Dekster]

Somebody should instruct the Chicago Tribune that the proper phrase is "May it please the Court", not "If it please (sic) the Court".