Jussie Smollett's hate crime story begins to utterly collapse. President Trump prepares to declare a national emergency, and the 2020 Democrats move even further to the left. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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We are constantly hiring, which means we are constantly using ZipRecruiter. You should to ZipRecruiter.com slash DailyWire to try ZipRecruiter for free. All righty. So we begin with the shocking but not so shocking news that Jussie Smollett's story seems to be falling apart. You'll recall Jussieett's story, mean streets to Chicago, 2 a.m., goes down for a subway

sandwich, and he leaves his apartment, goes to the subway, picks up his sandwich, and on the

way back, suddenly out of nowhere, he is accosted by two presumably white MAGA fans who come up to

him, somehow identify him from the show Empire, which is weird, and then

start yelling the F word and the N word at him, at which point they string a noose around his

neck, begin kicking him in the ribs, pour bleach on him, and he's only missing from the cameras

for like 60 seconds because Chicago has lots of cameras. There's a 60-second period where he's missing

from the camera. When he reemerges on camera, he's going to close the line around his neck. He's still carrying his Subway sandwich because, as we have discussed before, this is always what you do. I mean, if somebody is beating the living hell out of you, threatening your life, threatening to noose you, shouting, this is MAGA country while doing so. Your first priority, keep the sandwich. I mean, honestly, they should hire this guy at Subway. That's how much this guy loves Subway. I mean, he can take a lickin and keep on ticking and carry that Subway Sandwich at the same time. So, 60 seconds later, he walks back on camera. Now he's got clothes lined around his neck and he's carrying his Sub sandwich. He strolls right through the lobby of his building past the door man goes upstairs, waits 40 minutes, and then calls the cops. At which point the cops show up and they say, what happened? He still got the clothes line around his neck at this point. And he says, well, all this stuff happened. And they said, okay, well, can we see your phone? Because you claim you're on the phone with your manager at the time. And he says, no. Why would you want to see my phone? At this point, if you are not suspicious of the story, it's because you believe what you want to believe. And there were a lot of politicians who, as it turns out, believed what they wanted to believe about this story. We're talking everybody from Nancy Pelosi to Maxine Waters to Kamala Harris. Nancy Pelosi said the racist homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is an

affront to our humanity. Maxine Waters said it's coming from the president of the United States.

He's dog whistling every day. Kamala Harris said this was an attempting, an attempted modern day

lynching. Politicians all over the left-wing spectrum decided to weigh in.

AOC said, there is no such thing as racially charged. This attack was not possibly homophobic.

It was a racist and homophobic attack. If you don't like what is happening to our country,

then work to change it. It is no one's job to water down or sugarcoat the rise of hate crimes.

And the reason that she tweeted that is because Entertainment Tonight had originally run with the headline.

Jesse Smollett has been hospitalized in Chicago after a possible homophobic and racially charged attack.

Okay, the reason they said possible is because it might not have happened.

It's because it might not have happened, right?

Which makes it awkward that it might not have happened.

And anyone who heard this story, your first thought had to be, was this real?

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