It intersects with our upcoming presidential election. Two of the candidates (Cory Booker and Kamala Harris) were trying to pass an anti-lynching bill, as if lynching wasn't already illegal many times over, and then very conveniently Jussie Smollett has his fake lynching. He's an actor. He knows both of those political candidates. He'd be perfect for the job. Kim Foxx (with connections to both candidates as well as the Clintons) and Tina Tchen (with connections to Obama) worked to get the charges against Smollett dropped.
But surely a fake report as obvious as this appears to be would be obvious to catch? I guess you are probably right about his motives, but he seems spectacularly dumb.
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