The Kamala Harris connection has been strangely overlooked since it was first mentioned.
1) She and Smollett have campaigned together for her election(s) and for others.
2) She is the currently the Obamas hand-picked candidate
3) The Smollett ‘attack’ was staged - they believed an actor would play the victim to the hilt complete with tears and nobody would actually be harmed.
4) An actor would also be a much better poster boy than the usual lowlife criminal thugs (Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin) plucked out of anonymity and celebrated by the Obamas.
5) Like the Clintons’ deny/delay/distract tactics, the Obamas have a signature MO: use a victim as a chisel to divide and accuse hundreds of millions of racism.
6) Harris would borrow their playbook and Smollett would likely appear frequently to play his part.
As fake conspiracies go it was ludicrous hackery but the Obamas have long believed their own hype so they overlooked the pitfalls.