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Mr. Smollett, 36, claimed he was assaulted earlier this year near his Chicago apartment by two men, including one who supposedly said: "This is MAGA country."
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He said the men - one of whom he said was white - hurled racist and homophobic slurs as they beat him and looped a noose around his neck before fleeing.
