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, in
rough chronological order:
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.
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.
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)
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)
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 story in 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.
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)
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.
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“If you can’t treat someone with dignity and
respect–then you need to get out.”-Lt. Gen. Jay B. Silveria, Superintendent
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Two months later, authorities determined that
one of the students targeted by the notes was also the person responsible for writing them.
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 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)
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.”
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)
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.
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.
The exterior of Covington Catholic High
School Dennis Griffin stadium is pictured in Park Hills, Kentucky, U.S.,
January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Madalyn McGarvey
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 tolds 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.”
“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.
Anti-Semitic vandalism in New York City turned out to be the work of a Democratic activist,
according to police. It wasn’t a hoax — the anti-Semitic vandalism was real —
but the suspect wasn’t the right-winger some had assumed him to be. The man police arrested, based
on surveillance footage, was 26-year-old James Polite, who had actually interned for City Hall on anti-hate issues.
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.
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.
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