Smollett was discouraged about bringing media into the foul soup but Smollett fought like blazes to get a TV interview.
ABC's GMA obliged him. Smollett's media gambit was scripted in advance. His GMA act was flawless.
Hoaxer Smollett was a picture-perfect, fighting-mad victim as he spoke to unblinking Robin Roberts on ABC's GMA.
Smollett's victimized personna reinvented himself as an especially fierce kind of victim, a cool hero. “I fought the f**k back,” he told
believer Roberts.And, miracle of miracles, Smollett fought off hate-filled attackers, but never once lost control of his Subway tuna sandwich.
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What got the Feds involved initially is they were investigating what they thought was a legitimate hate
crime..... hate mail Jussie had written and sent to himself at the studio.
When the hate mail failed to get him the attention Smollett thought it deserved, he staged the hoax.
Smollett knew the very words “racist” and “homophobic” have been sanctified and now possess a political power, true or not.....
to be lobbed at perceived enemy lines like artillery shells. In his small mind, Smollett is heroic. The "oppressor" is the one to blame.
He is sitting pretty.......awaiting The Big Payoff.