You can tell they're ****** because they released the file they had on the investigation to a FOIA request
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...jussie-smollett-one-day-after-charges-dropped
It's basically a big F you to whoever is trying to make it go away, I do wonder though how a D list celebrity has enough power to cause all this trouble
He may be D-list in terms of talent (full disclosure: the only acting of his I've seen was the interview where he claimed to be innocent), but he's not some unknown. He's been acting for a couple of decades and gets paid quite a lot, apparently. He and his family are friends of the Obamas and he's often pictured with Kamala Harris who could be the next Democrat presidential candidate. These aren't D-list circles. That said, it's not a bad question. I say we have a few options:
(1) His close political ties are actual friendships / inside circle and these people are willing to go to bat for him. (Possible).
(2) The people interfering simply thought it was the usual "I'll make a phone call" low-level string-pulling and didn't expect it to hit national press. (More probable, imo).
(3) There's closer involvement / he's threatened to drag in other people and this has caused people to interfere more visibly than they otherwise would have. (No evidence, but a hypothetical possibility).
As regards the third one it's not something I've put about because there's circumstantial evidence for it at best. But if we consider the Obamas, Kamala Harris et al. to not be idiots (which they are not) and to have realised this could blow up, then we have to presume either the Smollets are close enough friends that they're willing to act selflessly or alternately that there's some cost to them not doing so. The former we have some evidence for. The latter - well certainly it blows back on them that someone highly visible in their circles and a major and vituperative critic of Trump and the Republicans has been caught trying to pull a huge false flag to frame their opponents. Hence statements such as saying he did it for the money when even a casual glance at his political activism shows overwhelming political motivation for the hoax. But there's also Kamala Harris's anti-lynching bill that she was trying to get passed. I know I've brought this up a couple of times, but we're in the first stages of Democrat presidential hopefuls trying to build up their public profiles and manoeuvre for the primaries. 2020 is not that far away, politically speaking. Harris has been making a big meal out of her anti-lynching bill. It's pure political theatre. Lynching someone is already illegal. The bill has almost no real effect. But it ties into narratives of 'reparations' to African Americans, symbolic apologies to African Americans, and so forth. It's possible (in fact probable given you'd have to be dumb as **** for this) that Smollet took it on his own initiative to try and stage an incident that was perfectly timed for Harris's bill. I mean how many REAL lynchings are there in the USA these days? But it's also possible, given that they are in communication with each other and carry out political activism together, that Jussie has some sort of communication from someone that could be interpreted as knowing what he was going to do. If that's the case, you'd have reason for such parties to stick their neck out a little on his behalf and interfere like this. Jussie would have to be a total **** to rat out his political allies like this. But when he got done for DUI years ago, he tried to pin it on his own brother so we can presume he's more than capable.
Currently I'm not touting number three - it's not outlandish but it's only hypothetical. But... you ask how he has power enough to cause all this trouble. Well if there were the possibility he could drag his high-level friends down into this during Primaries season, you'd have an answer for that.
