Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful...and Cory A. Booker, Democratic presidential candidates who were promoting an anti-lynching bill, the "attack" on actor Jussie Smollett in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
looked like a horrible yet opportune talking point.
Instead, the apparent hoax is turning out to be a warning to 2020 Democratic candidates about singling out people for martyrdom, including the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault and the drum-banging American Indian who confronted Catholic high school students on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
In the rush to speak too soon about the Smollett case, Ms. Harris and Mr. Booker stand out.
Hey, no problem. Run on out there and JUMP on that toe popper, it's got your name written all over it !
Just before noon on Jan. 29, news reports emerged on social media that Mr. Smollett, an actor on the TV show "Empire," had been attacked by two men yelling racial and homophobic slurs. He claimed the men said something about "MAGA country," suggesting they were Trump supporters.
Mr. Smollett said the two men put a rope around his neck.
Five hours after the initial report, Ms. Harris, a former Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, attorney general, pronounced the attack genuine and called it "an attempted modern-day lynching."