“...Federal charges “certain” ...” To be dropped.
1. AA
2. Gay
3. Super Trump hater
4. BIG D(lusional) demolib supporter.
Who knew a petard could weigh less than an ounce...
Remember the “MAGAbomber”, as the Fake News have called him before the details were made public just before the election? Looks similar.
The noose and the throwing of bleach sounded more like a lib’s stereotyping of what a racist thug would do than what they would really do. It just seemed so contrived when I saw the first reports.
Almost as if who-ever was sending it didn't want anyone matching their printing or handwriting. You know, in case they became a person of interest in say a fraudulent claim...
...Something about the envelope must have raised concerns. Smollett would later tell police that he and Empire’s executive producer donned gloves before they opened it...
Concerns yes, like they didn't want to get their fingerprints on it, so they wore gloves just like they did when then prepared it??? Who has gloves laying around the office? Sure, I've got nitrile gloves in my first aid kit in my car, but not in my desk drawer...
I'm not buying any of it now. He's apparently a lower-mid level actor who wants more fame, money, power, whatever. He is already fairly surely implicated in faking the attack. I believe he almost certainly is behind the letter too.
Consider "the story" (aka excuse) being floated now. That he was concerned about the lack of action/concern regarding the threatening letter so he staged the attack to draw attention to it? Hmm, in a week eh? So if we're to believe that, this means he got the letter, reported it. Then it would surely take a day or two, probably more like 3 or 4 before he'd see a definitive lack of action. So then in the span of the next 3 or 4 days he conceives of an "attack" manages to locate and convince two trusted dupes to help, plans it, and then finds just the right time to execute it?
Admittedly it wasn't a great plan, didn't have a-list help, and the execution was probably something that would've hit the cutting room floor. So maybe it was just rushed BS. But it is more likely the sitting around thinking about how to draw attention to himself occurred *before* these events. Then both were put together as a result of the same frustration.
I am pretty sure the USPS has a “postal cover” program in which they photocapture the front of every envelope (think of that: EVERY envelope) that goes through the US Mail. That is why they can find the anthrax hoaxers, etc.
The surveillance system in this country is so thorough that it takes some very serious thinking to evade it.
He’ll go to rehab and then he’ll come out all better, and all will be forgiven.
The country is lucky that this did not happen when Obama was President. He might have managed to get people riled up about the attack that never happened to get some riots going. Maybe not in Chicago because of the cold temperatures but in warmer cities.