https://twitter.com/juliebosman/status/1110590957664288768
1) "Joe Magats, the first assistant state's attorney who made the final decision to drop the charges against Jussie Smollett, says in an interview: "We didn't exonerate him.""
2) https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/politics/mueller-report-release/index.html
"Mueller's investigation of whether the President committed obstruction of justice did not conclude the President committed a crime, but it also "does not exonerate him," Barr quoted from Mueller's report."
Concerning optics, in the context of "exoneration", is the Smollett case a MSM attempt to manipulate public opinion and attack POTUS? To create some form of mental association? As if "both have been exonerated but both are guilty?" (Which would help feed the [D] party's narrative?