Did Jussie Smollett Fabricate His Hate-Fueled Attack?

Yikes. Racists have been doubting "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's reported attack since the get-go, because that's what they do. But just as the rest of us thought the case seemed to be moving toward a potential arrest comes word that both Smollett and his manager are refusing to let cops have their phones to verify details of their account. (The manager says he was on the phone with Smollett and heard parts of the attack, including the "This is MAGA country" declaration.) The timeline of the surveillance video isn’t adding up, either. From my 30 years of obsessive real-crime reading and TV watching this usually means one thing ...

Truth be told I can't decide which would be worst at this point -- that people are capable of doing something so disgusting or that someone would make it up for attention? Either way, elements of this story didn't add up from the beginning, starting with one police source denying the MAGA element ever happened only to be told that it did. From what I'm reading it sounds like Smollett added that detail on the second interview, which could explain the discrepancy. 

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