A QAnon-supporting parent in Florida claimed in late November that their son was jumped by “8 black kids” for wearing a Trump hat. In December, the account posted a video that was allegedly taken of the kids beating the child up on a school bus — and right-wing news outlets and pundits ran with it. But the school system says the attack was unrelated to politics. On November 21, the @AmericanDiaries Twitter account, a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, shared a photo of a child with a blanket over their head, claiming the child is their son and that he’d been attacked because of his pro-Trump beliefs. Three weeks later, the same account shared a graphic video described as portraying the incident, asking people to retweet it “to have these two girls and 3 boys held accountable” (a departure from the initial claim that “8 black kids” assaulted the child). The school district has denied the contention that the fight was spurred by a Trump hat. “There was no evidence found during the investigation that indicated the student was wearing any of this apparel at the time of the altercation,” Hamilton County Superintendent Rex L. Mitchell said in a statement, “or that his wearing of such apparel on a prior occasion motivated the incident.” Reporting on this statement, Snopes has also debunked the claim. The @AmericanDiaries account’s video and story reached right-wing pundits including Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and the president’s attorney Rudy Giuliani. Both used the initial claim that the boy was beaten up by Black classmates for wearing a Trump hat without noting the school’s denial of that story. Soon after, the claim reached right-wing and right-leaning sites including Fox News, Breitbart, the New York Post and Daily Mail. Local news sites owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group also published the account, though it was later taken down.