Pathological Lying worked very well for Barry.
Jussie and Brian Williams both thought they’d give it a shot too.
Well there’s all sorts of “tricks” in communicating these people learn very well so that they can live with themselves. Nancy Pelosi’s Queen of that sort of deception.
However Smollett was just plain stupid in his planning really, but now in court etc. he’s just been using the media and his attorneys to do the deceptive work.
It’s really quite dumb of the guy in how he orchestrated things. But then I suspect he doesn’t have much grey matter to begin with.