Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett insists, in a new Instagram interview with CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill, that he was the victim of a “set up” and that he has two new witnesses to prove that he did not stage a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January of last year. He claims that he was, in fact, accosted by two white men wearing “Make America Great Again” caps.
Smollett told Hill, in one of the first interviews he’s given since a special prosecutor re-charged Smollett with several counts of lying to Chicago police in the hours following the alleged attack, that he is the “only human being” involved in the incident “who has not changed his story one time” and says he believes a “narrative” was created to sideline his claims of discrimination and harassment.
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