I offer my perspective on the Smollett hoax and verdict as a longtime Chicago resident.
It is simply incredible that anyone would believe that the “attack” would happen on a night when Chicago was having a polar vortex, and that there would be attackers yelling “MAGA country” out that night (or any night) in one of the most Democratic cities in America. (And who is carrying bleach and a rope at 2 A.M.? And what “celebrity” is going to a Subway at 2 A.M.?) My initial view three years ago when he reported the alleged incident was that Smollett must really be dumb to think that story would be remotely believable. Yet the media largely bought it, as did many progressives and professional race-baiters.
