Perfect response to this would be to pardon Michael Flynn today!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47991895 Jussie Smollett did WAAAAY more illegal shit than Flynn. With Flynn, it's some technicality of when he worked with Turkey.
Jussie Smollett went out of his way to commit a crime, from the red hat they purchased, the noose, the conspiracy, the rehearsals, the doubling down on live TV
but the worst of it is that he used the federal postal system to send a bioweapon threat!
That should get him years alone.
here's my proposal
Go on TV and talk about how bad Smollett was, and how he deserves significant prison time for his racial hate crime hoax.
Then announce, you're pardoning him for.
Oh, and Michael Flynn too, since he did significantly less and has a long track record of upstanding service to his country.
Lib heads explode.