Former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday said convicted hate-crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett “spit in the face of real victims of bigotry” by “lying about being attacked because of his race” and “should be sentenced to the fullest extent of the law to serve as an example and to send a very strong message to anyone who thinks about pulling a hoax like this in the future.”

The Democrat from Hawaii offered her take in a TikTok video she posted to her Twitter account and added that Smollett has “rightly been found guilty by a jury of his peers” and “needs to apologize to the American people” for “what he did.”

In the text of her Twitter post, Gabbard said Smollett’s actions were a “slap in the face of actual victims of bigotry” and that a maximum sentence would serve as a “warning to potential future hoaxers.”