Photo By - Pawel Czerwinski If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element EP-036 This episode is about a recent example of corruption by a professional play actor, and how it ties into another clear case of corruption by the Democratic National Committee. No change will come without holding corruption accountable. But it must come from within. Luis Hernandez phones in to ask a question. Tweet of the Week: Michael Tracey has been blasting media pundits that tricked and duped the American public for two years advancing the false and salacious narrative surrounding RussiaGate. The Tweet of the Week calls on the fateful "Russia if You're Listening" campaign joke by President Trump. Let’s start it off! Jussie Smollet! The smelter of the truth. The great fabricator. He is a trained faker after all. This story will not go away! First, unimaginable victim of hate from ignorant white men. No, not just ignorant, but evil white men. Attacked in the middle of the night for being black and gay. These hateful Aryans apparently were Empire fan-boys, and out to rid this world of another successful black gay man. The tail hearkens back to terrible crimes of recent past when James Byrd, a black man, was drug behind a pick-up truck to his death in 1998. Or Mathew Shepard, a gay man, who in 1998 was tied to a log and beaten to death. Real horrific crimes that shocked our entire nation and shined a light on an extreme hatred against minorities by monsters that live among us. Those are real stories our nation had to deal with. Instead of dividing us, these stories urged all of us to stamp out this kind of hatred and correct the errors of our past. Jussie Smollet used these tragic events to his advantage. Hate crimes are real, and they are terrible. They are not tolerated by society. But quickly after the reports of Jussie’s attack his national news. A harrowing escape of a hate crime turned into a botched hoax by a conniving, privileged, greedy, opportunist. You see, hate crimes are rare. They are horrible. The same media that tracks how divided our nation is, also seeks stories to amplify this division. But we aren’t truly divided by race or sexual orientation. We are simply divided by narrative. Black men, gay women, white people, virtually all people demanded justice when the Smollet hoax was revealed. There is enough narrative and legitimate political reasons we are all divided, our society cannot stand for a play actor taking advantaged of horrific crimes of the past to forward his career and political leanings. It seems these days, the victim is the great status we can achieve in our society. But here is where I need to deviate from the broader discussion within our modern punditry. The brightest light is not being shined on hatred in America, but corruption. And there is a clear line directly to the corruption within the Democratic party and the power structure that continues to obfuscate, dismiss, and cover up clear corruption at the highest levels. In the end this story is not about a divided society on color and sexual preference lines, but class and political influence. 16 felony counts against Smollet for creating the hate crime hoax were brought from the evidence by an independent Grand Jury. These charges were dropped this week. Look the case made national news. I'm not going to litigate the details of the hoax. It's a messy, gross, and incompetent hoax. While the 16 felony counts may sound like overkill, we citizens demand justice when someone seeks to take advantage of our legal system to benefit themselves. And that's where my larger point comes into play. Kim Foxx, the Cook County State's Attorney, known associate of Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris received a phone call from Michelle Obama's former Chief of Staff urged her to move the investigation from the Chicago police to the FBI. At first Foxx recused herself in light of the political connections and pressure, but then took the rei