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Originally Posted by Pio1980

If it plays out as appears, a bewildering self-sabotaging disappointment all around and a betrayal of real victims of bigotry.
FWIW, his story was problematical from the beginning as having a "staged" feel, it did not ring true to me.

Jussie Smollett paid $3,500 to stage his attack, hoping to promote his career, Chicago police allege

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/21/enter...day/index.html

The latest take from the LGBT viewpoint:
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/...-salary-issues

Bizarre story with too much coverage IMO in light of all the other news of the day (e.g., the white-nationalist arrested yesterday with a huge cache of weapons and a hit list of Democratic politicians and journalists on the very day that Trump wailed about "the enemy of the state").