Jussie Smollett's Hate Crime Attack a Hoax?

The Federalist Papers: Jussie Smollett’s Apparent Hate Crime Hoax Really Fooled A Lot Of People.

When “Empire” star Jussie Smollett said he was attacked by a group of Trump supporters in an apparent hate crime, conservatives were skeptical.

Liberals, on the other hand, were downright giddy.
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But police are now asking plenty of questions. And, it turns out, Smollett doesn’t have any answers.

The thing has all but been confirmed as a hoax at this point. Even the police aren’t buying it anymore.
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Police have now scoured hundreds of hours of video footage and have found nothing resembling an attack on the star.
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Fox 32 Chicago reporter Rafer Weigel said “My sources in Chicago PD are telling me this is looking more and more like a hoax.”

This is incredible. If the attack on Mr. Smollett is true, Liberals are happy the attack occurred, even if it happens to one of their fellow Liberals. It doesn't matter, because if the attack is true, well then, it reinforces the Libs' false narrative that any person who disagrees with their ideology is a MAGA-shouting-Racist-Bigot who must be doxxed, threatened, abused on social media, shouted-out of public places, attacked...whatever.

If the attack on Mr. Smollett is a hoax, the only people surprised by this would be Liberals. Liberals wouldn't care that it was a hoax, that it was fabricated. Because an attack like this could happen, they internalize, doesn't make it something to be dismissed. Go figure.

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Chicago police have confirmed a @TMZ report to @ABC that a neighbor of Smollett's did come forward with information. Her description of a man she said she saw with a rope of some kind was "significantly different" than one provided by Smollett.

Detectives took her information but have yet to find any surveillance video that shows an individual matching the description she gave.

Why won't Mr. Smollutt let Chicago PD verify his telephone records, which potentially would help the police identify the alleged attackers? Daily Caller:

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) said “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett and his music manager are not handing over phone records of a conversation that occurred Tuesday morning during an alleged attack.

The victim and his manager reported that they were talking on their cell phones to each other but CPD has been unable to independently verify this because they refused to turn over their cell phones,” CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a Thursday statement[.]

Via The Grio, surveillance camera capture of those identified by Chicago PD as "persons of interest".

Here's the problem. It's not inconceivable that The Left would execute something like this. The Left could execute it as a "play-as hoax" or, as "real", as disgusting as that notion is.

Reuters (Yahoo): 'Empire' actor states account of attack 100% factual.

"I am working with authorities and have been 100 percent factual and consistent on every level," Smollett said in his first statement about the incident he reported on Tuesday.

Traditional Media either refuses to report things correctly, update their stories or deliberately chooses to remain with false narratives. The following from BET:

Reportedly beaten, bleached, and restrained with a noose by two white men spouting Trumpisms and wearing MAGA hats, Smollett experienced a level of emboldened violence that marginalized communities at large have feared and anticipated since (and well before) the election of our current sitting president.

Yet, SOHH reports:

Jussie never said the men were wearing the hats. Rather, they screamed “MAGA country.”

I don't know what to believe. There hasn't been sufficient information released (at least to the public) by Chicago authorities to reasonably conclude the attack actually happened, that it was a hoax or that it was done as a PR stunt/hoax. Eventually, we'll know.