Social media was rife with accounts of sometimes violent incidents of hate crimes targeted at Muslims, Latinos and African Americans after the election 
 
 Claims of hate crimes possibly linked to Trump's election reported across the US 
 
 There was a spate of claims of hate crimes in the US on Thursday made on social media and to police, in which the alleged victims said abusers had in some way cited Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election. 
 
 Social media was rife with accounts of sometimes violent incidents of hate targeted at Muslims, Latinos and African Americans. 
 
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 Muslim students in campuses across the country reported incidents of hate. At San Diego State University, a Muslim woman who was wearing a hijab told campus police that two men pulled up next to her and jumped out of a car, then made comments about Muslims and Trump before robbing her of her purse, backpack and car keys. The woman could then not locate her car. 
 
 Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center who monitors hate in extremism, said that he’s seen a spike in hate crimes including attacks on women wearing hijabs and racist graffiti – and that suicide prevention hotlines were receiving high numbers of calls. 
 
 “I think this is absolutely clearly a result of Trump’s election,” Potok told the Guardian. “Donald Trump has ripped the lid off Pandora’s box.” 
 
 I think this is absolutely clearly a result of Trump’s election. Donald Trump has ripped the lid off Pandora’s box Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center 
 
 Muslim women tweeted that they or people they know are considering not wearing a hijab so they could not be visibly identified and targeted. 
 
 
 
 Twitter also painted a picture of divided high schools across the country as students shared incidents that ranged from African Americans being called cotton pickers to Latinos being told to leave the country. Last week, one principal at Southern Lehigh high school in Pennsylvania held a special assembly after reports of students yelling homophobic slurs, calling black students cotton pickers and using Hitler salutes. 
 
 Trans Lifeline, a national hotline for transgender people in crisis, told the Guardian it saw its normal call volume triple on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. According to the Tennessean, a transgender woman reported on Friday that her truck was set on fire in her driveway, and the word “Trump” had been spray-painted on its scorched back. 
 
 Potok compared the spike in hate crimes to the one felt in the UK following Brexit. Britain’s most senior police officer told a court hearing in September that Britain had experienced a “horrible spike” in hate crimes after it voted to leave the EU. 
 
 Trump’s campaign has also emboldened white supremacist groups. A Ku Klux Klan newspaper endorsed Trump, and the former KKK grand wizard David Duke was one of the first people to congratulate Trump on Twitter following his victory. Potok said that Klan members have been distributing literature in Alabama since Trump’s victory, and one local Klan group is organizing a celebratory rally. 
 
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 Hate crimes against Muslims in particular have risen significantly over the past year. Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative, a group that studies Islamophobia, found that 2015 saw the most incidents of hate crime in any year against Muslims since 9/11. 
 
 Jordan Denari Duffner, a research fellow at The Bridge Initiative, warned that it was difficult to draw precise causation between Trump’s campaign and spikes in hate crimes. 
 
 “It’s been hard up until now to say that Trump is the sole reason for this,” she said. “What will be interesting is how often racist attacks are accompanied by explicit support for Donald Trump.” 
 
 In his victory speech early on Wednesday, Trump said he wanted to heal divisions in the country and be a president for “all Americans”. 
 
 •This article was updated after a University of Louisiana student who told police she was attacked by two men acknowledged to police that she fabricated the story. This section of the story was removed ||||| The tempest in a teacup that is The New York Times Anonymous op-ed has led to a game of trying to find out who is the rat within the Trump Administration. I’m surprised that no one has considered another possibility, that it is a hoax, concocted within The New York Times. 
 
 Anyone who dismisses that possibility has not been keeping count with the Left’s constant hoaxes, lies and fake news. If you have not, here is a small — very small — sample: 
 
 Early on, a British jackass composed an obscene, fraudulent, “Russian dossier” about Trump having two Russian hookers urinate in bed while he watched. This was actually taken seriously by leftist journalists. 
 
 A lesbian waitress in New Jersey claimed to have received an anti-gay message in the receipt. She lied. 
 
 A student who reported racist graffiti turned out to have written that graffiti. 
 
 Juan M. Thompson, a journalist for The Intercept, sent several bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers which were blamed on Trump supporters. 
 
 Khalil Cavil, a waiter in Texas, made up a whole story that a customer scrawled the message, “We don’t tip terrorists,” on a reciept, which got the customer barred from the restaurant. 
 
 A few days after the 2016 presidential election, a female student at the University of Michigan reported that a white man told her to take off her hijab or he would set her on fire. Surveillance tapes and inconsistencies proved that it was a lie. 
 
 Halley Bass, another University of Michigan student, scratched her face and claimed that her assault “was part of the surge in hate crimes following the election of Donald Trump.” 
 
 A group of progressive students (“Diversity Leadership Council”) at Gustavus Adolphus College put up racist posters. 
 
 Samantha Wells, a black student at St. Olaf College, claimed to have received a threatening note using the death-inducing n-word. Classes were shut down. Protests erupted. She confessed. 
 
 Nathan Stang arrived at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Bean Blossom, Indiana, and was horrified — yes, horrified! — to see swastikas, anti-Gay and pro-Trump slogans. Which he spray painted himself. 
 
 In Lafayette, a Muslim woman claimed that two men (one wearing a pro-Trump hat) robbed her, stole her wallet and hijab. She later admitted to lying. 
 
 Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, University of Albany students were victims of hate crimes. There was outrage, particularly by Black Lives Matter buffoons. They were arrested and expelled for the hoax. 
 
 Rick Jones from Utah claimed to have been the victim of several anti-gay hate crimes, all false. 
 
 In New York, a Muslim student at Baruch College, reported that men chanted “Donald Trump” and told her to get out of the country. She chided bystanders for not coming to her aid. Police came to her aid and arrested her for filing a false report. 
 
 CNN edited the words of a woman urging her fellow blacks to go burn down white suburbs to make it sound like she was calling for calm. 
 
 Chris Ball, a gay Canadian filmmaker cried that he was assaulted by Trump supporters on election night in Santa Monica, California. The truth is, he just cried over the election. 
 
 Project Veritas went undercover to prove that CNN does, indeed, fake news. 
 
 A CNN film crew in London was itself filmed preparing a fake demonstration. 
 
 NYT’s Maggie Haberman was caught spreading lies about Sarah Sanders. 
 
 The Associated Press admitted it had lied on several articles about Trump and Russian ties. 
 
 ABC News chief political analyst Matthew Dowd claims that in talks with Navy Seals all Navy Seals are embarrassed at having Trump for president. Prime facie bs. 
 
 Using a White House stationery, a fake list of demands by Trump on an international visit was reported as being factual. 
 
 Mary Emily O’Hara of MSNBC reported that the ambassador to Panamá was resigning over Trump’s comment. It was a lie. 
 
 Raf Sanchez of the Telegraph faked a foto of Trump meeting with an alt-right leader. 
 
 NYT’s editorial board stated that Sarah Palin had incited Jared Loughner to commit the mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. 
 
 James Comey stated that a NYT story on Trump was fake news. 
 
 Daniel Simpson, a reporter for the NYT quit in disgust because of the editors’ drive for fake news. 
 
 Time reported that Trump had removed MLK’s bust from the Oval Office. Lie. 
 
 NBC deliberately edited a 911 call to make the call (by George Zimmerman) sound racist. 
 
 Dan Rather’s CBS report attacking George Bush was based on forged documents. 
 
 And let us not forget Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” and Omarosa’s “Unhinged.” In short, a fake op-ed is a distinct possibility. 
 
 Armando Simón is the author of “Orlando Stories” and “The Book of Many Books.” 
 
 The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of The Daily Caller.
– Police in Louisiana say a Muslim student who said she had been attacked by Donald Trump supporters hours after his election victory has admitted inventing the incident. The 18-year-old University of Louisiana student claimed she had been attacked by two white men in Trump shirts who shouted racial obscenities before stealing her headscarf and wallet, but "there was no truth to any of it," a Lafayette Police Department spokesman tells ABC News, adding that he doesn't know what her motivation was for "getting people upset and afraid." He says the student will be charged with filing a false police report but probably won't spend time in jail, since she "decided to tell the truth about not telling the truth." But the Louisiana incident aside, there have been hundreds of other reports of hate crimes against Muslims and other minorities since Trump's victory, with writer Shaun King compiling many of them on Twitter, reports Quartz. Schools in Utah and elsewhere are dealing with a rise in reports of bullying of minority students, Fox 13 reports. A similar rise in racist incidents was reported after Britain's Brexit vote. Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center tells the Guardian that there has been a spike in hate crimes, along with a rise in calls to suicide hotlines. "I think this is absolutely clearly a result of Trump's election," he says. "Donald Trump has ripped the lid off Pandora's box."