He probably won’t pay much and the vast majority of LIV’s will only remember the falsehood that two white guys wearing MAGA hats tried to lynch a black guy. The power of the press can promote something for days, then retract(sort of) one time at 2 am.
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The FBi was involved in this, too. Huge resources were assigned.
The whole thing was put in play right after the Press outrage and roar about the Covington kids that everyone hated so much. That’s the backdrop.
Smollett saw that coverage and thought he could take over the TV and be a household name.
Visions of MAGA hoaxes danced in his head.
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Filing a false police report..sending a fake threat by mail is also a federal offense..thousands of hours wasted on a bogus crime when they could have spent that time focusing on solving actual CRIME in Chicago..he goes on GMA and lies his ass off, everyone saw it..he needs to go to PRISON..what he wanted was a race war, pretending that he got lynched for being black and gay..if ANYONE had been arrested for this, some innocent men walking by at the time, they might have gone to prison for something they did not do