Soldato
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47313172
So police are have now actually charged him. That was pretty quick and given how hard it would normally be to prove a negative in a case like this, I'm concluding they must have some pretty good evidence.
As far as I'm now concerned, Smollet faked the attack. The interesting things to watch from here on will be:
So police are have now actually charged him. That was pretty quick and given how hard it would normally be to prove a negative in a case like this, I'm concluding they must have some pretty good evidence.
As far as I'm now concerned, Smollet faked the attack. The interesting things to watch from here on will be:
- Whether activist judges and juries go super lenient on him (no idea).
- Whether the media rallies round to create a narrative in support of him (I think they will).
- Whether Democrat leaders with whom he's often pictured and friends with stick by him (I think they'll quietly downplay it and make neutral statements until they see which way the wind is blowing).
- Whether they can get him on the "white powder" and death threat letters. (If they do, that increases his possible sentence quite a lot).