Here Are 21 Fake Hate Crime Hoaxes Promoted by the
Left Since Trump’s Election, By Peter Hasson,
2/22/19.
Anti-Muslim Hate Crime in Michigan Turns Out To Be a Hoax (Nov. 2016) A Muslim woman at the University of Michigan received national attention from national outlets like The Washington Post in November 2016 after she claimed a drunk 20-something man threatened to light her on fire if she didn’t remove her hijab. The university condemned the “hateful attack,” which turned out to be a hoax.
White Men Rob Muslim Woman of Her Hijab and Wallet — Except It Never Happened (Nov. 2016) An 18-year-old Muslim woman in Louisiana claimed in November 2016 that two white men, one of whom was wearing a Trump hat, attacked and robbed her, taking her wallet and hijab while yelling racial slurs. She later admitted to the Lafayette Police Department that she made the whole thing up.
Church Organist Vandalizes Own Church (Nov. 2016) - story continues below: A church organist was arrested in May 2017 after he was found responsible for spray-painting a swastika, an anti-gay slur and the words “Heil Trump” on his own church in November 2016. When the story first broke, media outlets tied the hoax to Trump’s election. “The offensive graffiti at St. David’s is among numerous incidents that have occurred in the wake of Trump’s Election Day win,” The Washington Post reported at the time.
“Drunk White Men” Attack Muslim Woman in Story That Also Never Happened (Dec. 2016) RELATED: Lies Matter
Student Writes Anti-Muslim Graffiti on His Own Door (Feb. 2017). A Muslim student at Beloit College wrote anti-Muslim graffiti on his own dorm room door. The student was reportedly motivated by a desire to seek attention after a Jewish student was targeted with an anti-Semitic note.
Israeli Man Behind Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats in the U.S. (April 2017) Media outlets didn’t wait to find out who was behind a string of bomb threats targeting synagogues and Jewish schools before linking the threats to Trump. A U.S.-Israeli man was charged in April 2017 and indicted in February 2018 for the threats. A former reporter for The Intercept was also charged in March 2017 with making several copycat threats.
Hoax at St. Olaf (May 2017) Students at St. Olaf college in Minnesota staged protests and boycotted classes in May 2017 after racist notes targeting black students were found around campus, earning coverage in national media outlets like The Washington Post. It later came out that a black student was responsible for the racist notes. The student carried out the hoax in order to “draw attention to concerns about the campus climate,” the university announced.
Fake Hate at Air Force Academy Goes Viral (Sept. 2017)
K-State Fake Hate Crime (Nov. 2017) A student at Kansas State University filed a police report in November 2017 over racist graffiti left on his car. “Go Home N***** Boy” and “Whites Only,” read the racist graffiti, which the student later admitted to writing himself.
Racist Graffiti Carried Out by Non-White Student (Nov. 2017) Another instance of racist graffiti that same month also turned out to be a hoax. A Missouri high school investigated after racial slurs were left on a bathroom mirror in November 2017, only to find that the student responsible was “non-white.”
Waiter Fakes Note Calling Himself a Terrorist (July 2018)
Waitress Fakes Racist Note, Blames Law Enforcement (July 2018) A Texas waitress apologized in July 2018 after blaming local law enforcement for an offensive note targeting Mexicans. She later admitted to writing the note herself.
New York Woman’s Hate Crime That Wasn’t (Sept. 2018)
The Covington Catastrophe (Jan. 2019) National media outlets pounced on a selectively edited video from the March for Life that showed Native American activist Nathan Phillips beating a drum in front of a boisterous group of boys from Covington Catholic High School. Phillips originally told The Washington Post the students swarmed him while he was preparing to leave the Indigenous People’s March scheduled for the same day. Phillips originally said one student, who later identified himself as high school junior Nick Sandmann, blocked his path from leaving as he tried to do so. The extended video shows that wasn’t the case: Phillips approached the high school boys during their cheers, not the other way around. Some of the people with Phillips were directing racially charged language at the students, not the other way around. Phillips told a second variation of his story to the Detroit Free Press. Phillips claimed he was playing the role of peacemaker by getting between the students and four “old black individuals,” whom he claimed the students were attacking. “They were in the process of attacking these four black individuals,” Phillip told the Michigan paper. “I was there and I was witnessing all of this … As this kept on going on and escalating, it just got to a point where you do something or you walk away, you know? You see something that is wrong and you’re faced with that choice of right or wrong.”
Bonus: Anti-Semitic Vandal Exposed as Democratic Activist (Nov. 2018) Anti-Semitic vandalism turns out to be the work of a Democratic activist. It wasn’t a hoax — the anti-Semitic vandalism was real — but the perpetrator wasn’t the right-winger some had assumed him to be.
Bonus II: Trump-Inspired Racist Blaze at Black Church Was Carried Out by Black Church-goer (Nov. 2016) This hoax occurred one week before Trump was elected, but TheDCNF is including it as a bonus because it was so egregious.
Anti-Muslim Hate Crime in Michigan Turns Out To Be a Hoax (Nov. 2016) A Muslim woman at the University of Michigan received national attention from national outlets like The Washington Post in November 2016 after she claimed a drunk 20-something man threatened to light her on fire if she didn’t remove her hijab. The university condemned the “hateful attack,” which turned out to be a hoax.
White Men Rob Muslim Woman of Her Hijab and Wallet — Except It Never Happened (Nov. 2016) An 18-year-old Muslim woman in Louisiana claimed in November 2016 that two white men, one of whom was wearing a Trump hat, attacked and robbed her, taking her wallet and hijab while yelling racial slurs. She later admitted to the Lafayette Police Department that she made the whole thing up.
Church Organist Vandalizes Own Church (Nov. 2016) - story continues below: A church organist was arrested in May 2017 after he was found responsible for spray-painting a swastika, an anti-gay slur and the words “Heil Trump” on his own church in November 2016. When the story first broke, media outlets tied the hoax to Trump’s election. “The offensive graffiti at St. David’s is among numerous incidents that have occurred in the wake of Trump’s Election Day win,” The Washington Post reported at the time.
“Drunk White Men” Attack Muslim Woman in Story That Also Never Happened (Dec. 2016) RELATED: Lies Matter
Student Writes Anti-Muslim Graffiti on His Own Door (Feb. 2017). A Muslim student at Beloit College wrote anti-Muslim graffiti on his own dorm room door. The student was reportedly motivated by a desire to seek attention after a Jewish student was targeted with an anti-Semitic note.
Israeli Man Behind Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats in the U.S. (April 2017) Media outlets didn’t wait to find out who was behind a string of bomb threats targeting synagogues and Jewish schools before linking the threats to Trump. A U.S.-Israeli man was charged in April 2017 and indicted in February 2018 for the threats. A former reporter for The Intercept was also charged in March 2017 with making several copycat threats.
Hoax at St. Olaf (May 2017) Students at St. Olaf college in Minnesota staged protests and boycotted classes in May 2017 after racist notes targeting black students were found around campus, earning coverage in national media outlets like The Washington Post. It later came out that a black student was responsible for the racist notes. The student carried out the hoax in order to “draw attention to concerns about the campus climate,” the university announced.
Fake Hate at Air Force Academy Goes Viral (Sept. 2017)
K-State Fake Hate Crime (Nov. 2017) A student at Kansas State University filed a police report in November 2017 over racist graffiti left on his car. “Go Home N***** Boy” and “Whites Only,” read the racist graffiti, which the student later admitted to writing himself.
Racist Graffiti Carried Out by Non-White Student (Nov. 2017) Another instance of racist graffiti that same month also turned out to be a hoax. A Missouri high school investigated after racial slurs were left on a bathroom mirror in November 2017, only to find that the student responsible was “non-white.”
Waiter Fakes Note Calling Himself a Terrorist (July 2018)
Waitress Fakes Racist Note, Blames Law Enforcement (July 2018) A Texas waitress apologized in July 2018 after blaming local law enforcement for an offensive note targeting Mexicans. She later admitted to writing the note herself.
New York Woman’s Hate Crime That Wasn’t (Sept. 2018)
The Covington Catastrophe (Jan. 2019) National media outlets pounced on a selectively edited video from the March for Life that showed Native American activist Nathan Phillips beating a drum in front of a boisterous group of boys from Covington Catholic High School. Phillips originally told The Washington Post the students swarmed him while he was preparing to leave the Indigenous People’s March scheduled for the same day. Phillips originally said one student, who later identified himself as high school junior Nick Sandmann, blocked his path from leaving as he tried to do so. The extended video shows that wasn’t the case: Phillips approached the high school boys during their cheers, not the other way around. Some of the people with Phillips were directing racially charged language at the students, not the other way around. Phillips told a second variation of his story to the Detroit Free Press. Phillips claimed he was playing the role of peacemaker by getting between the students and four “old black individuals,” whom he claimed the students were attacking. “They were in the process of attacking these four black individuals,” Phillip told the Michigan paper. “I was there and I was witnessing all of this … As this kept on going on and escalating, it just got to a point where you do something or you walk away, you know? You see something that is wrong and you’re faced with that choice of right or wrong.”
Bonus: Anti-Semitic Vandal Exposed as Democratic Activist (Nov. 2018) Anti-Semitic vandalism turns out to be the work of a Democratic activist. It wasn’t a hoax — the anti-Semitic vandalism was real — but the perpetrator wasn’t the right-winger some had assumed him to be.
Bonus II: Trump-Inspired Racist Blaze at Black Church Was Carried Out by Black Church-goer (Nov. 2016) This hoax occurred one week before Trump was elected, but TheDCNF is including it as a bonus because it was so egregious.
Liberal actor Jussie Smollett is accused
of staging a racist and anti-gay attack on himself, which Smollett blamed on
supporters of President Donald Trump. Smollett’s alleged fake “hate crime”
appears to be the latest instance of liberals manufacturing hate crimes for
attention in the Trump era.
The Daily Caller News Foundation
compiled below some of the most outrageous fake hate crimes since Trump was
elected, roughly in chronological order:
Bisexual Student
Fakes Trump-Inspired Hate Crime (Nov. 2016)
Taylor Volk, an openly bisexual senior
at North Park University claimed to be the target of hateful notes and emails
following Trump’s election in November 2016. Volk told NBC News that “I just
want them to stop.” But the “them” referenced by Volk turned out to be herself,
as the whole thing was fabricated.
Gas Station Racism Goes Viral —
Then Police Debunk It (Nov. 2016). Philadelphia woman Ashley Boyer claimed in November 2016
that she was harassed at a gas station by white, Trump-supporting males, one of
whom pulled a weapon on her. Boyer claimed that the men “proceeded to talk
about the election and how they’re glad they won’t have to deal with n—–s much
longer.” Boyer deleted her post after it went viral and claimed the men had
been caught and were facing criminal charges. Local police debunked her
account.
Another 18-year-old Muslim woman, this
time in New York, was the subject of breathless headlines in December 2016 after she claimed
to have been attacked by a group of Donald Trump supporters on a New York subway
while onlookers did nothing. The woman, Yasmin Seweid, would go on to confess
that she made the whole thing up.
White Guy Sets His Own Car On Fire,
Paints Racial Slur on His Own Garage (Dec. 2016). Denton, Texas, resident David
Williams set his own car on
fire and painted
“n***** lovers” on his home’s garage, in an apparent attempt to stage a hate crime. Local police investigated the arson as
a hate crime. Williams and his wife, Jenny, collected more than $5,000 from
Good Samaritans via a GoFundMe page before the hoax was exposed.
Prankster Tricks Liberal Journalist into
Spreading Anti-Trump Hoax (Dec. 2016). As tales of Trump-inspired
“hate crimes” were
spread far and wide by liberal journalists after Trump’s election, one online
prankster decided to test just easy it was to fool journalists. The prankster
sent Mic.com writer Sarah Harvard a fictitious storyin which a Native American claimed to
have been harassed by an alleged Trump supporter who thought she was Mexican.
Despite no evidence backing up the claim, Harvard spread the fake story, emails the
prankster shared with The Daily Caller showed.
The Air Force Academy was thrown into
turmoil in September 2017 when horrific racist notes were found at the
academy’s preparatory school. “Go home n***er,” read one of the notes. The
superintendent, Lt. Gen. Jay B. Silveria, went viral with an impassioned speech
addressing the racist notes. “If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect–then
you need to get out.”-Lt. Gen. Jay B. Silveria, Superintendent @AF_Academy pic.twitter.com/njCktv5Fmp
— U.S. Air Force (@usairforce) September 28, 2017
Two months later, authorities determined
that one of the students targeted by the notes was also the person
responsible for writing them.
Texas waiter Khalil Cavil went
viral after posting a Facebook picture of a racist note that he claimed a
customer had left on the receipt, in lieu of a tip. The note described Cavil as
a “terrorist.” Saltgrass Steak House, where Cavil worked, initially banned the
customers for life, before their investigation revealed that the waiter had
faked the racist note. “I did write it,” Cavil later admitted. “I don’t have an explanation. I made a
mistake. There is no excuse for what I did.”
A New York woman was charged in
September 2018 after police determined she fabricated a story about white teens yelling racial
slurs at her and leaving a racist note on her car.
Student Faked Racist Notes (Dec. 2018) Several racist notes at Drake University
were actually the work of one of the students who had been targeted by them.
“The fact that the actions of the student who has admitted guilt were propelled
by motives other than hate does not minimize the worry and emotional harm they
caused, but should temper fears,” university president Marty Martin said
afterwards.
“These young men were beastly and these old
black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they
needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that,” he added.
Extended video shows that account also isn’t accurate. The four individuals
Phillips referenced were members of the Black Hebrew Israelites and they
launched racist and anti-gay slurs at the high school students, not the other
way around.
Leftist media outlets ran headlines like
“A Black Church Burned
in the Name of Trump” after
a black church in Greenville, Mississippi, was set on fire and spray painted
with the words “Vote Trump.” The Washington Post’s original coverage of the incident
read in part, “Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons called the fire a ‘hateful and
cowardly act,’ sparked by the incendiary rhetoric of GOP nominee Donald Trump
during his presidential campaign.” But the church was set on fire by one of the
church’s own congregants, who is black.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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