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Another ‘MAGA country-style’ hoax? Matt Walsh thinks so…
Revolver News ^ | May 19, 2026 | Staff

Posted on 05/21/2026 8:39:05 AM PDT by Red Badger

There’s a new story circulating online. It all started with an X post from infamous race-baiting lawyer Ben Crump, the attorney who led the George Floyd charge. In his post, Crump claims that a historic Black cemetery in Palmetto, Florida, was vandalized, with graves damaged and “Trump” and “DeSantis” spray-painted across tombstones.

Here’s the X post Crump published:

Ben Crump:

A historic Black cemetery in Palmetto, Florida, was vandalized, with graves damaged and “Trump” and “DeSantis” spray-painted across tombstones. Our ancestors deserve dignity in life and in death. Desecrating sacred burial grounds is hateful, painful, and unacceptable. We must protect Black history and honor the families impacted by this cruelty.

We’ve seen this kind of story before. They get big, flashy headlines for weeks, and then months later we discover it was all a hoax, and the story quietly disappears.

Is this one of those hoax stories? Podcaster Matt Walsh certainly thinks so, and he found one clue in Crump’s post that has a lot of people scratching their heads and thinking we may be looking at a Smollett-style fake news story.

Here’s the first post Matt shared about the so-called “cemetery vandalism.”

But it was his second post that resonated with most people. If you’re truly a conservative, you know Team Trump and Team DeSantis are two very separate groups that, for the most part, don’t politically coexist very well. That’s especially true for someone allegedly radical enough to vandalize a black cemetery.

Matt Walsh:

My favorite part is the idea of some right wing racist extremist militant who is a big fan of both Trump and DeSantis. That’s a category that includes zero actual humans on Earth. These people don’t have a theory of mind for conservatives at all so they have no idea how to effectively slander us.

Matt makes a valid point. This smacks of a left-winger trying to mimic what they think is a typical “conservative,” while missing a key point about how different Trump supporters and DeSantis supporters really are.

Most people agreed with Matt because they understand those little nuances of this movement.

“The fact that leftists don’t actually have a theory of mind about how conservatives think, is what’s always so funny about every time they do a hate crime hoax.”

“Also, a Trump or DeSantis fan writing their names on tombstones? Like wouldn’t you write racial slurs or Democrat politicians?”

“Did they write, “This is MAGA country!” This is called “Smolletting” and this is ANOTHER Hoax…I guarantee it….Ben Crump has gotten very rich from being a Race Baiting hustler.”

“Al Sharpton doesn’t get the credit he deserves for creating the race hoax back in the day with Tawana Brawley.”

“Every neo nazi really looks to ron desantis as an inspiration🙄”

“The problem is these hoaxes are like junk mail. No-one likes it but enough people keep buying the products that it continues. There are a lot of people out there who still believe Jussie Smollett and think BLM was a real thing, not a soulless cash grab.”

These hoaxes have been flooding the scene ever since President Trump burst onto the political stage.

Who could forget the hate hoax in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where swastikas were drawn all over the city… later police announced the suspect was a black gtuy.

Matt Von Swol:

🚨OH. MY. GOSH!!!

It has been revealed that the man who has been drawing Swastikas all over Fayetteville NC…

…is actually a BLACK MALE, “Taquon Jameek Vereen”

He was let out on a $1500 bond and then IMMEDIATELY BEGAN WAIVING A GUN AT PEOPLE ON THE STREET.

He was YET AGAIN given a $2500 bond.

Curiously, although local media reported on the story, they miraculously failed to mention, AT ALL, the race of man who was drawing these swastikas.

…I wonder why 🤔

Will this latest Ben Crump case turn out to be yet another hoax? Based on recent history, the odds are certainly pointing in that direction.

We’ll see where the facts land, but as of now, this story isn’t adding up, and Matt Walsh raised some very good questions for all of us to ponder.




TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: bencrump; benjamincrump; cemetery; crump; desecration; florida; georgefloyd; mattwalsh; palmetto

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1 posted on 05/21/2026 8:39:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

100% hoax.


2 posted on 05/21/2026 8:40:14 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (RL)
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To: Red Badger

Fake!


3 posted on 05/21/2026 8:41:50 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Red Badger

Was there ever an actual act of vandalism? And if there is evidence of any such vandalism, who is actually responsible?

Simply an assertion that something was vandalized is not evidence of anything at all. This could very well turn out to be a “Smollett incident”, and no MAGA types were involved in any way, shape, form, or manner.

Get your ducks in a row before making any wild accusations, please.


4 posted on 05/21/2026 8:56:23 AM PDT by alloysteel (The body may betray or fail. The spirit shall endure and prevail. Courage, courage.)
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To: Red Badger

Oh, okay. Did anyone get jo skar’bro’ or fluffer meeka’s input yet?


5 posted on 05/21/2026 9:04:31 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: rktman

Liberals are so easily fooled.....................


6 posted on 05/21/2026 9:05:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve decided to rebrand them as “TDS extremists” going forward. Or ‘tedsies’. 😁👍


7 posted on 05/21/2026 9:09:25 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Red Badger

Dude best be careful - he’s poaching on the Rev Al’s territory....


8 posted on 05/21/2026 11:53:46 AM PDT by ASOC (YGBSM)
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To: Red Badger

CRUMP IS A FRAUD,IMO


9 posted on 05/21/2026 2:57:43 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

He’s a lawyer....... Same thing!.......


10 posted on 05/21/2026 2:58:39 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

“I think there are a lot of shysters in Florida.”


11 posted on 05/21/2026 2:59:41 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

Just the ones in the TV commercials!............😉


12 posted on 05/21/2026 3:01:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

Ben Crump *spit* , a despicable person. Must be trolling for a cssh crisis


13 posted on 05/21/2026 4:13:16 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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