Two brothers believed to be the men seen in grainy surveillance video released by Chicago police have been
arrested in connection with the Jussie Smollett case -- and they are friends of his. Smollett follows the guys'
joint Instagram account, and they have posted photos while using the private gym inside Smollett's luxury apartment building. A lawyer for the brothers confirmed they are friends with Smollett but said they are not the men who attacked him.
Even giving Smollett the benefit of the doubt that he was unable to recognize them if they were bundled up and masked, it still seems completely implausible that they would turn on him and then begin punching while hurling the n-and f-words while declaring that Chicago is "MAGA country." (They're Nigerian.)
I think the only question now is if Smollett will try to pull a Tonya Harding and claim he didn't know his own friends staged an attack on him. I have a feeling in these post-truth times many people will claim they still believe he's a victim, even if none of it makes any sense.
A friend and I just coined a phrase. It was bad enough when the right didn't operate in the real world. But that this scourge has infiltrated my beloved tribe is truly terrifying. We can blame W and Trump for truthiness and alternative facts all we want. But this is what Russia -- and unbridled wokeness -- has done to us. Let's please get it together before 2020 or else the damage to this country could become irreversible ...
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