I think it was more that Trump was making inroads in the black community and the rhetoric of renewed white supremacist crimes against blacks had to be ratcheted up.
So lynching, you know, for old times sake.
Bidan saying, "If you don't vote for me, you ain't black", as well as Bidan's comment in 2008 or 2012 to blacks that, "They want you back in chains", are other examples.
That's his gig. Pure bully and bullshitter. ratchet up hatred based on ignorance. That Tesla quote above is spot on.
I think Harris is in too deep with the Smollet hoax and that could blow back on Bidan. He has to get some daylight to make him look uninvolved, but he probably wasn't.
The whole absurdity of the hoax plot, Foxx's bullshit and the MSM gaslighting just serves to show how stupid they think we are. Most likely reason for thinking that is that they would have fallen for it.