Started thinking about it the other day & the only way I can see Kim Foxx making such a career ending move in the exact manner she did is if the FBI was already onto her in a big way. The FBI had to know she was under pressure to control the case & make it go away by Harris, Booker.
If I had a guess what happened:
Now if the FBI pulls into town early on since it was so obvious it was a fake attack, sits down with the police chief & tells him they know Smollett staged it with the Nigerians from intercepts. Gives him still of brothers walking away to release as persons of interest. Mean time the NSA Geo-tracks the brothers & Smollet's movements & tell CPD where & when to look for footage & provide press release notes to CPD. They look for hardware stores & either like name of the Crafty Beaver or Create It so they can tell Harris THEY KNOW & get her shitting her pants when they make the announcement about the brothers coming in for Questioning.. She contacts Booker & together they go into damage control mode w/ Foxx & Emanuel. monitored. FBI through CPD lays out airtight case & Foxx is in a bind so she recuses & tells subordinate to give case to FBI, recuses, jets to awards to tell Harris situation. She makes her retain control to control fallout, realize Jussie has to get charged locally & GJ convened but keep charges sought to a minimum, Jussie admit guilt, give him some community service, & reimburse the city for the cost of the investigation so America felt justice was served & make it go away.& she has #2 handle it
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FBI approaches #2 & forces him to seek indictment for 16 felonies or he goes down Putting all of them in the shit & places Foxx, Harris Booker & Obama in a real bind. Press was already arranged to cover narrative to show Smollet was charged & media circus ensues. FBI steps off NSA monitors comms as they figure out what to do. They decide to try Jussie w/ false report, & 1 felony as deal & instead FBI has #2 drop all charges, seal records, & annouce to press to cause a real shitstorm that can only force a DOJ review under presidential order of entire fucked up affair that no one can interfere with...or question.