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Jussie Smollett and Hate Crime Hoaxes

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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What Happened to Jessie Smallett?

Celebrities came out in support of jessie smallett. Politicians soon followed suit, pushing congress to pass an anti lynching bill. Yet if you looked for this kind of scepticism from the journalist who covered the story, you couldn't find it. The night of the attack was one of the coldest of an already cold winter. It was dipping down to ten degrees below zero, with wind chills in the negative thirties. How strange that jussie would randomly be out in a polar vortex at two a m only to be by two violent trump supporters as one of the actors from the t v hippop show empire.

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