If these guys worked with Smollet, then he knew them by sight and probably by name. If so, then why didn’t he identify them to the police instead of saying two guys? This makes no sense as a random attack but does make sense if it was a setup.
I am beginning to wonder if the real story is that Jussie made a move on these guys sexually, and they smacked him around and called him a faggot, and Jussie then tried to make a MAGA/hate crime out of it.