Welp, it looks like the black mayor of Colorado Springs is of the Jussie Smollett variety. You may remember if you're a Coloradan the story about now-Mayor Yemi Mobolade being intimidated with this sign and accompanying burning cross leading up to his 2023 election victory.
Yes, that's the n-word.
Initially, this was a terrible scene - something only a white supremacist would do.
Or was it?
Nope, it was a racism hoax!
And it may have won Mobolade the election.
On Nov. 12 the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado announced that three of Mobolade's supporters had been charged with writing the n-word on one of his campaign signs, erecting a burning cross in front of it, and sending video of the spectacle to the news media to turn out the black vote for Mobolade, an African immigrant. Mobolade, a left-wing candidate, went on to defeat a white Republican in a closely fought election in the conservative-leaning city.
The FBI began an investigation, and would eventually refer the case to the DOJ. But what did the DOJ do in response?
They came to Mobolade's aid.
‘The initial response from the Department of Justice was "we can't indict the first black mayor of Colorado Springs,"' the official said, adding ‘In my experience if anyone had been in that position they would have been charged with lying to a federal agent.'
The DOJ worked to remove Mobolade from the case altogether.
Earlier this month, arrest warrants were issued against the three suspects, and on November 12, the case was unsealed and made public.
Acting U.S. Attorney for Colorado Matt Kirsch put out a press release that day that misrepresented the candidate's role. It said Bernard sent a message 'to the other defendants' that said he was 'mobilizing my squad' for 'black ops.' But that message, according to the actual indictment, was sent to the now-mayor, not to Blackcloud and West. The message also notified Mobolade that 'I spoke with some of my friends in other places and theirs [sic] a plot amidst.'
When The Daily Wire asked the U.S. Attorney's Office for Colorado for comment on the allegation that it rejected an FBI criminal referral for false statements and included a false statement in its press release, a spokesman said 'we have no comment' and stealth-edited the press release to strike the phrase 'to the other defendants.'
Yet Mobolade seemed to expect even more from the Justice Department. On November 13, The Daily Wire emailed the mayor's spokespeople asking about his communications with Bernard. That day, he personally called the Justice Department to request that it put out a second press release saying he was not a subject in the hoax hate crime investigation, the official said.
The Justice Department seemed open to doing so, and consulted the FBI about it. But the FBI was taken aback by the request, because the mayor was, in fact, on investigators' radar, the official said.
So now the three defendants, Bernard, Blackcloud, and West "are charged with using interstate commerce to make a threat and convey false information." They have not been charged with a hate crime or election interference.
And Mayor Mobolade seems to be off the hook for his Jussie Smollett adaptation.
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