Given that we see the Nigerian brothers (one of whom had co-starred as a character on Empire with Smollett) walking away 15 minutes before the alleged attack (and before footage where we see Smollett without the noose, before he goes off-camera for a minute and suddenly has a noose on…) I expect what happened is perhaps Jussie did get in a fight with these two (off camera) and they left, but getting beat up by your Nigerian co-star is bad PR, so Jussie took out his emergency noose and put it on, and gave a later time for the attack, and gave a false description of the attackers. That or, Jussie bleached himself to hide the smell of cum and then tripped and hit himself (but saved his sandwich) and used the noose to distract.
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When it comes out that he orchestrated the fake letter prior to this hoax, that becomes a federal crime too.