This is looking more and more like a Deep State operation.

Kamala Harris and Corey Booker immediately jump on Twitter to label the Jussie Smollett attack a "modern-day lynching". Turns out they know the fellow personally. Small World.
A week later, their anti-lynching legislation is passed in the Senate.
Smollett appears on ABC Good Morning to tearfully relate the story of his attack to a breathlessly accommodating Robin Roberts.
A week later, Disney/ABC casts Smollett's sister as superhero Black Canary in a DC movie. Small world.

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