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02/23/2018 09:12 PM EST
Parkland Survivor To Melania Trump: Stop Donald Trump Jr. From Cyberbullying
Me
His conspiracy theory "put a target on my back," the 14-year-old
tweeted.
A 14-year-old survivor of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida,
has pleaded with first lady Melania Trump to stop her stepson Donald Trump
Jr. from bullying her and her family online.
“You say that your mission as first lady is to stop cyber bullying,”
tweeted Lauren Hogg. “Don’t you think it would have been smart to have a
convo with your stepson @DonaldJTrumpJr before he liked a post about a false
conspiracy theory which ... put a target on my back?”
“I’ve been getting all these horrible messages from Nazis and white
supremacists and I woke up this morning and remembered that Melania Trump’s
mission was to fight cyberbullying,” Hogg told Huffpost on Friday. “That
’s what’s happening to me: cyberbullying. I thought she could do something
about Donald Trump Jr.”
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump’s eldest son “liked” two tweets
promoting a conspiracy theory about Lauren’s 17-year-old brother, David
Hogg, another shooting survivor. The cooked-up conspiracy claimed he had
been coached to speak out against guns by his former FBI agent father to “
cover” for the agency’s failure to prevent the shooting. The ruse was
backed up by the “deep state media,” claimed one of the posts.
The fake theories circulating about the Hoggs have resulted in death threats
against the family, the siblings’ mom, Rebecca Boldrick, told The
Washington Post.
A “like” by Donald Trump Jr. can have a tremendous effect because he has 2
.6 million followers.
Melania Trump vowed shortly before her husband was elected president that if
she became first lady, one of her key missions would be to combat online
bullying. “Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to
children and teenagers,” she explained in a speech in Philadelphia.
Lauren Hogg told the first lady in her tweet that the conspiracy theories
are “re-victimizing” her family. “I’m 14 I should never have had to deal
with any of this ... I thought it couldn’t get worse [but] it has because
of your family.”
The Hogg siblings are now dealing with an onslaught of social media hate
after a gunman killed 17 people at their school.
“It’s unbelievable to me that these people are even saying this,” David
Hogg told CNN. He called Donald Trump Jr.’s support for the conspiracies “
disgusting.”
The 17-year-old has become a key target for conspiracy theories swirling
around Parkland’s student activists. One conspiracy video that presented
him as a paid “crisis actor” — not a student — hit No. 1 on YouTube’s
trending page before the company took it down earlier this week.
Melania Trump got caught in another Twitter storm last week after she
encouraged people to “test the power of kindness” on Random Acts of
Kindness Day. “It’s an opportunity to teach our children the importance of
taking care of one another,” she wrote.
A huge number of responses urged her to encourage her husband to be kind —
or resign.
The first lady had not yet responded to Lauren Hogg’s tweets as of Friday
evening.
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