the first thing i asked is "why?" , what does he has to gain through all of this? a forced & framed pseudo hate crime in 2019 & cry in front of cameras .

Gets to further the narrative and make a name for himself.

it's a very deceitful thing to do , misleading a whole lot of people for no other reason than to provoke hate & abuse, manufactured emotions & stir up a reason to abuse something they themselves hate , but this is not surprising at this point , not the first time the particular a certain politically affiliated personas staging something aimed against their opponent just to make somethings look bad , tomorrow there will be another , sure enough, they're basically testing very broad range of smear campaign at this point.

Honestly I think he should get at least 5 years in jail for this kind of behavior, and it should be labeled a hate crime in and of itself.

nah , i presume he'll get off easy on this one. the current emotionally transfixed system works that way.  The classic "one rule me & another for thee" will be played out in this one as well most probably.

he's saying it was for a "raise" for his show ,  i don't truly believe it , maybe it was a carefully planned political hit-job to start a spark & they were trying to fan up into a huge flame that  would cause a chaos.  lots of people pulling the strings .