Trump Hate Hoaxes
As soon as
Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election, a wave of
hysteria swept across the nation’s liberal and progressive voters. At first,
there was utter denial of the results.
But later,
as Trump’s victory finally began to sink in, a disturbing series of news
reports filled the airwaves. It seems that in city after city, there were
accounts of hate-filled and violent incidents whereby damage or injuries were
caused by supposed Trump supporters.
In
Lafayette, Louisiana, an 18-year-old female student of the University of
Louisiana reported that two white men, one of whom was wearing a Trump hat,
exited an SUV and ran up to her, yelled racial obscenities and pulled off her
hijab. She also claimed they robbed her of her wallet.
She
reported the events to the Lafayette Police Department. Within hours, the story
had been picked up by news outlets across the country. Liberals began sharing
this revolting tale of prejudice and hatred. Expressions of vitriol and anger
swept the Internet as the narrative was shared tens of thousands of times.
But there
was just one problem: under pressure, the
student later admitted the whole story was fake. A spokesman for the
University of Louisiana wouldn’t comment on whether this individual will face
punitive or disciplinary action due to federal privacy laws.
At North
Park University in Chicago, a self-professed bisexual student named Taylor Volk
claimed that supporters of Trump had emailed her anonymous messages of “hate”
and left notes tacked to the door of her dorm room. These emails and notes
contained threatening language along with mentioning Trump in a hashtag.
Additionally, Volk said that a number of the messages were homophobic and
contained hateful slurs.
The story
was reported on Chicago’s NBC5-TV and was shared widely on social media. “This
is a countrywide epidemic all of a sudden,” said Volk. “I think that those who
have those feelings have been emboldened by this election… I just want them to
stop.”
Volk said
the outpouring of support for her from the school’s community had been
“astounding.” The problem? This
incident, too, was made-up.
A
subsequent university investigation found that all of the messages had been
falsified; university president David Parkyn sent a letter to students that
read, “The incident and the related messages were fabricated. We are confident
there is no further threat of repeated intolerance to any member of our campus
community stemming from this recent incident.” Volk is now no longer enrolled
in the school.
At Bowling
Green State University (BGSU) in Ohio, not one, but two reports filed by
students of hate crimes were found to be untrue. In one case, a man claimed he
was shoved to the ground, called a racial slur and robbed. Thomas Gibson,
Bowling Green’s vice president of student affairs, later released a statement
that said the attack had not occurred.
In the
other BGSU incident, a black female student named Elisha Long claimed she was
attacked by three white men wearing Trump gear who threw rocks at her and
called her a racial slur. Long wrote about what happened to her on Facebook,
and her account was shared thousands of times.
Long’s
father notified the police, who interviewed Long about the incident. But the
more the detectives quizzed Long, the more her story changed. Lt. Dan Mancuso
of the local police department said, “Several times the complainant changed her
story about what happened, where it happened, and when it happened.”
After
obtaining a warrant for the woman’s cell phone history and Facebook posting
history, the police quickly determined Long
had been lying about the attack. Furthermore, it was found that Long had
sent messages containing derogatory remarks about Trump supporters to her
mother and her boyfriend. “I hope they all get AIDS,” read one message. Another
said Trump fans “should take an IQ test to vote.” Long was charged with
obstructing police business and falsifying a police report.
In Santa
Monica, California, a young Canadian man named Chris Ball — who happened to be
gay — was at a bar on Election Night. According to Ball, some rowdy drunk men
yelled crude comments out at him and his friend. “We got a new president, you
f***ing faggots,” they called out to Ball. Ball said he did his best to ignore
them.
Later,
after he left the bar, Ball claimed he was jumped in the parking lot. Ball said
several men (who he admitted may not have been the same men at the bar) smashed
a bottle over his head. He claimed he went to a local hospital and took some
“selfie” pics that he posted to social media.
When one
looks at the pictures, the amount of dark red blood on Ball’s shirt would seem
more appropriate for a gunshot wound than a beating. It also appeared as if the
young man had smeared blood on his face; no open wounds were visible.
Ball
talked about his attack and posted his selfie pictures on social media, and the
story quickly went viral. The Facebook group U.S. Uncut featured Ball in a long
post detailing his attack. Not only was the story shared on Facebook and other
online media, it was picked up by many national newspapers.
Again,
there was just one problem: there were no police or medical records for a
person of Ball’s name reporting such an attack or checking into a hospital
anywhere in the area. A Reddit group started to cover the incident, and people
in it began researching Ball’s account. It turns out that the Canadian is an
independent horror movie director who has regular access to makeup and fake
blood.
The local
police released the following statement: “The Santa Monica Police Department
and the City of Santa Monica have not received any information indicating this
crime occurred in the City of Santa Monica. We encourage the alleged victim to
come forward and work with us if a crime did, in fact, take place. A check of
local hospitals revealed there was no victim of any such incident admitted or
treated as well.”
At least 15 other hate crimes and/or vandalism that were
reported on television or newspapers following Trump’s victory have been
confirmed to have been hoaxes.
If all
these stories seem too ridiculous to be real, you wouldn’t be far from the
truth. However, a number of authorities are inclined to disagree. The city of
Los Angeles recently set up a Trump supporter hate-crime hotline in the
aftermath of the election. This is in spite of the fact that the city regularly
has protests of illegal immigrants demanding their “rights” at its main train
station, and one out of every two people in the downtown area doesn’t speak
English.
In the
meantime, Trump protesters seem to be committing crimes that are all too real.
Multiple reports of fires set and windows smashed in New York, Los Angeles and
Portland compounded records of arrests of more than 100 activists, many funded
and organized by groups such as MoveOn,
which has received funds from Democrat billionaire disaster capitalist George Soros.
Some
protesters have carried signs proclaiming violence, such as one that read,
“This machine kills fascists.” In a few protests, police have been attacked,
and in others, innocent people have been beaten up because they were mistaken
for Trump voters.
For
conservatives, the best answer to all these actions is to take the high road;
ultimately, investigations will bear out that it’s progressives who are responsible for the vast majority of
incidents. As long as Trump supporters realize that all of these protesters
will eventually resign themselves to Trump’s win and sit at home being
crybabies, the nation can perhaps begin the overdue healing process it needs in
the wake of this turbulent election.
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