The two brothers are both strongly opposed to President Donald Trump and fervently pro-LGBT, fellow Empire cast and crew members tell TMZ. Both men are said to be loyal fans of former President Barack Obama. Smollett is said to be close with the brothers and would frequently approach them on set to discuss health and fitness. Colleagues on the tight-knit Empire set said they had a hard time imagining that the Osundairo brothers could have been involved in the kind of homophobic and bigoted attack that Smollett described. Sounds like an excellent set of motives to me.
It isn't as if we have never seen this before.
There are only hundreds of previous racist/homophobic attack hoaxes.