‘Empire’ Star Jussie Smollet Victim of Homophobic Attack by MAGA Supporters

The story seems to be that around 2 AM Monday morning in Chicago, a gay black actor by name of Jussie Smollet went out to grab some food and got beaten for his troubles. But it wasn’t just your run of the mill mugging:

• Two white men in ski masks jumped him (I understand the wind chill was -10, so ski masks seem about right)
• They KNEW WHO HE WAS.
• They beat him up (fracturing a rib)
• Then they tied a noose around his neck
• They poured bleach on him
• And they yelled “This is MAGA country!”
• Eight days earlier, some straight-outta-TV letters (with the text made up from individual letters seemingly cut out of magazines or advertisements or something) were sent to the Chicago Fox affiliate addressed to Smollet saying “You will die black f**.”

Ummm… ok. I have no idea who this guy is. He’s apparently a minor actor on the TV show “Empire,” which I gather is a show aimed at the black TV-watching demographic. Which is fine… but what are the chances that white MAGA supporters would know who this guy is, so that they would have sent threatening letters in advance and were waiting for him at 2 in the morning during a polar vortex? And if it was 2 AM, 10 degrees below zero wind chill and they were wearing ski masks, how would the victim know they were white?

Given the injuries reported by a hospital and the cops, clearly the guy took a thumping. But the particulars of the incident read like a bad 1980’s cop drama had a baby with Trump Derangement Syndrome. I would be less surprised if this turns out to be an actual honest-to-Odin false flag than what’s it’s being reported to be. There is, of course, a Middle Way: a bog-standard mugging, with some embellishment becomes something more… sellable. After the Covington Catholic nothingburger incident in D.C. got All Blowed Up Real Good into the Great Racist Incident Of 2019 by just sprinkling in some out of context vids and some manufactured outrage, I think it’s safest to cast a skeptical eye at all such claims these days.

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Somehow I suspect that the below story won’t garner as much attention and outrage as the above:

DC Antifa Leader Charged With ‘Ethnic Intimidation’ Related To Attack On Marines

UPDATE: According to CNN, a dozen detectives are working with the FBI and after reviewing many local security camera recordings have so far failed to find a single image of either the attack or the alleged assaulters. Additionally, the police report that Smollett did not report the “MAGA”aspect of the story to them, and that they only heard about it after he went to the press. Hmmm…

Hypothesis: he went out at 2 AM during the polar vortex to get some food… and slipped and fell on the ice, cracking a rib and smacking his face. An idea about how to garner sympathy and simultaneously score political points begins to percolate…