would decline to participate in this choreographed production usually with these hoaxes local authorities will pretend to hunt for the imaginary racist hate crimer and um and when the search comes up empty because the person they're searching for doesn't exist they'll throw their hands up and say oh darn you know i guess he got away that's exactly what happened in madison wisconsin when a woman claimed that she was assaulted and set on fire by a group of white supremacists while sitting in her car at a traffic light and her story somehow managed to be even less plausible than smallett's and there was even more evidence disproving it because she was at it she was at an intersection in the middle of a city with security cameras all around and they can look at the security cameras and say like this never happened these people don't exist but the cops went along with the program they pretended to search for the invisible assailants um and waited until everybody stopped watching them and then they quietly closed down the investigation and moved on no charges were filed against the hoaxer in that case that's they almost never are except here smollett was not so lucky he was also pressing his luck quite a bit by attacking the police for not finding the people the attackers that he knew didn't exist and i think when he did that maybe that's when uh even you know a liberal prosecutor has to say enough is enough and that's what landed him on trial where yesterday he made the radically stupid decision to take the stand in his own defense it might have been a desperation move by his defense team realizing that they have literally no defense to offer or it may have been a decision entirely made by the actor himself and motivated by his own psychotic narcissism or maybe it was a bit of both whatever the case he sat in the hot seat for two days throwing out a whole deck full of victim cards calling upon all of his training as a thespian and trying to bury the case under irrelevant and pretty gross details about bath houses and drug use and masturbation the major problem smallett has aside from the glaring absurdity of the hoax that he perpetrated is that his accomplices the nigerian assandario brothers have long since admitted that he paid them to beat him up so that he could pretend it was a hate crime they even have the check he gave them for their hate crime services that puts millett in the position of having to provide some reason why his friends one of whom he said he had a sexual relationship with would hide out on a street corner and beat him up while screaming anti-black slurs his theory that he's given is that maybe they wanted him to hire them as bodyguards and this was their way of convincing him even though he was already paying them money for other services uh he he said well maybe they wanted to be a bodyguard and that's that's why they staged this whole thing i guess it's kind of like your mechanic cutting your brake lines so that you'll come back for more repairs in the very near future that's the theory he presented anyway but the real point smollett was trying to make on the stand and the reason he took the stand to begin with the
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