On Thursday, the two brothers hired by Jussie Smollett to stage an attack said that they support former President Donald Trump, warning black voters to make up their own minds when reading content and not consume "propaganda."
At the end of the interview, the program's anchor asked Abimbola: "You’re wearing a MAGA hat; how do you feel about MAGA country, MAGA people, and maybe Trump or not?" MAGA stands for "Make America Great Again," Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign slogan.
"Well, we're Americans first ... and we support all of our presidents. We support President Trump, and we think that what's happening with him right now is political," Abimbola said before Olabinjo interrupted his brother to say he believes it's "a tragedy."
"We don't think it should be going the way it is, and we think things need to get better," Abimbola said.
Black Voters Wrong on Trump
The brothers also said that they think black voters are seeing the Trump situation "through one lens," adding most people in the African-American community consume too much "propaganda" and are unwilling to make up "their own sound decision.""Do you think the African-American, or the black community, the black voters in America, have Trump wrong? Are they not seeing Trump the right way?" Bolling asked the brothers.
"Absolutely," Abimbola responded. "I think so. Or they're seeing it through one lens. They're not seeing it through different lenses where they can now make their own sound decision. They're looking at it through one lens, and they're seeing what those—the propaganda, they're seeing propaganda, and that's all they're consuming."
"Well, not all of them, but most of us [black voters] are consuming propaganda," he continued. "The way my brother and I do it, we look through those different lenses, and we formulate our own decision on what is given to us."
As the leading Republican presidential candidate for 2024, Trump has characterized these legal challenges as part of a political "witch hunt" and other attempts to hurt his candidacy. Across the aisle, Trump's critics describe the investigations as correctly applying the rule of law.