FAKE NEWS: 4 Websites That Rushed to Blame Trump Supporters for Mississippi Church Arson,33

Following the November arson attack against a black church in Mississippi, several mainstream media outlets attempted to paint the crime as a racially-motivated attack by a Donald Trump supporter.

Despite lacking a large amount of evidence for their claims, which were largely based on “Vote Trump” grafitti painted onto to the church and the n-word found shortly before, the outlets continuously pushed the narrative of a Trump-induced hate crime.

Little did they know that the attack was actually perpetrated by Andrew McClinton, a black man who was a member of the church he torched. It has also since been revealed that McClinton was also the perpetrator of the graffiti found on the church.

Since the mainstream media, along with social networks such as Facebook are concerned with the rise of “fake news,” here is a sample of the outlets which pushed this false narrative without the facts..