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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to supporters through a bullhorn during a campaign stop at the Canfield County Fair in Canfield, Ohio, U.S., September 5, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar

President Donald Trump shared an animated meme created by an apparent neo-Nazi depicting him body-slamming CNN and thats not even the first time hes circulated white nationalist themes.

The animation, which was taken from Trumps appearance at a WWE professional wrestling event, was apparently created by an obviously racist Reddit user called HanAssholeSolo.

The reporter who revealed the memes creator said he has been deluged with anti-Semitic death threats from Nazi sympathizers who support Trump.

As a presidential candidate, in February 2016, Trump retweeted and then deleted a message from the Twitter user WhiteGenocideTM complimenting the size of his rally crowds.

That users profile shows an image of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, and links to anti-Semitic, Holocaust denial and racist content.

Trump actually retweeted another post by WhiteGenocideTM a few weeks earlier, when he shared an image showing Jeb Bushs head superimposed on a panhandlers body, holding a sign that reads, Vote Trump.

He tweeted an image in July 2016 calling Hillary Clinton crooked, next to a six-pointed star that closely resembled the Star of David which emerged from a neo-Nazi forum on the 8chan website.

House Speaker Paul Ryan denounced the tweet as anti-Semitic, but Trumps social media director Dan Scavino claimed he randomly chose the star from a stock art collection on Microsoft Word, while Trump insisted the graphic was a sheriffs badge.

Fortune used social media analytics software developed by Little Bird and found that prominent members of the Trump campaign, including former campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, followed the most influential members of the white nationalist #WhiteGenocide network.

Trump himself doesnt follow any of those Twitter accounts, but nearly 68 percent of the top #WhiteGenocide influencers follow him, while 24 percent follow Scavino.

He retweeted the user @NeilTurner_ whose Twitter bio claims white genocide is real five times during the campaign, despite following only 42 accounts at the time.

Fortunes analysis found Trump and his campaign have used social media to court support within the white supremacist community, whether intentionally or unintentionally. And it appears to have worked.

Kellyanne Conway, who served as Trumps campaign manager during the final stretch before the election and now serves as a senior White House adviser, tweeted love you back in February to an account called Lib Hypocrisy whose bio includes the hashtags #WhiteIdentity, #Nationalist, and #SteveBannon.

The presidents son, Donald Trump Jr., has also shared white nationalist themes and ideas on his Twitter account.

Trump Jr. retweeted a post in August 2016 by Kevin MacDonald, a retired psychology professor that the Southern Poverty Law Center has called the neo-Nazi movements favorite academic.

Hes also shared posts using the Pepe the Frog character identified with the neo-Nazi alt-right movement, and he cracked a gas chamber joke in September 2016.

Later that month, Trump Jr. drew widespread condemnation for comparing Syrian refugees to poisoned candy an analogy based on two separate white supremacist memes with roots in Nazi propaganda.

The analogy, which has been used on message boards and shared as social media memes, originally used M&Ms as the candy in question but that changed after George Zimmerman gunned down Trayvon Martin while the unarmed black teen was walking home from buying a drink and some Skittles.

But the poisoned candy analogy goes back even further, to an anti-Semitic childrens book published by Julius Streicher, the publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Strmer who was executed in 1946 as a war criminal.

The book tells the tale of the poisonous mushroom, and was used to indoctrinate children in hate.

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Jacksonville Daily Record

Judicial Spotlight: Get to know five 4th Judicial Circuit Court judges Jacksonville Daily Record He is often asked to discuss his work on the Michael Dunn and George Zimmerman trials two recent homicide cases that garnered national attention. Other service activities include judging mock trial competitions and speaking to Boy Scouts about the ...

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George Zimmerman being found dead by a security guard in a hotels womans bathroom is a death hoax. There is no truth to the report that the controversial figure was found dead.

Zimmerman is known for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. On July 13, 2013, he was acquitted of second-degree murder. As of 2015, he remained the subject of media interest due to ongoing controversy over the Martin case. In addition, he has been involved in other violent incidents, with allegations of violence made against him since he was acquitted of the murder of Martin.

Now, where did this death hoax originate? Channel23News published the article reporting that Zimmerman was found dead in a womans bathroom. You can read the story below.

A security guard smelled a putrid odor coming from a stall in the women restroom of a Marriott hotel. While surveying the area a person was observed on their knees behind the door. After several unfailed attempts to communicate with the individual local authorities were notified and arrived 20 minutes later. The Orlando Police Dept. entered the area only to discover George Zimmerman, 38 year old Hispanic male, head down in a toilet bowl of feces.

However, the above story is fake news. Channel23News is a prank website apparently operated by a Korry Scherer from Milwaukee, WI. according to Hoax-Alert. The site lets visitors create their own realistic looking fake news stories to prank friends and family. The above story is just another example of a realistic but fake news article.

Here are some examples of people sharing the fake news on social media.

This has not been the first time Zimmerman has been the subject of fake news. In March 2014, the Cream Bmp Daily web site published an article reporting that Zimmerman had accidentally shot and killed himself while loading a gun.

911 first responders found George Zimmermans lifeless body at a Florida gun range after responding to an emergency call that he shot himself while loading his weapon.

Im not saying we took our time getting there, but weve shown up faster to black neighborhoods. According to a first responder, they stopped at every light, didnt use a siren and drove behind an elderly woman all before finally arriving on the scene. If he was a rapper hed be more famous now that hes dead, but nope! Everybody just glad hes dead.

As noted in Cream Bmp Dailys About page, that web site deals strictly in satire:

CreamBmp.com Written by comedian CREAM. This website is comprised of satire and parody of current news and urban culture. For entertainment purposes only.

What did you think of the death hoax about Zimmerman? Did you believe it or see people sharing it falsely on social media? Let us know in the comments section.

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Oregon Daily Emerald

Manggala: My journey of understanding 'Black Lives Matter' Oregon Daily Emerald Sure, George Zimmerman looks like an awful person, but what could I prove that the justice system couldn't? Unfortunately, people still have this frame of mind to this day. I remember learning about Michael Brown a couple years later. The Black Lives ...

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Tom Lyons Columnist @tomlyonsht

When a bill passes with ease and is quickly signed by the governor, and the good intent is obvious and no corporate lobbyist seems to have a secret angle, the resulting law might well just be a rare good idea with no downside.

That is the way some have promoted a bill to help hide certain mug shots and arrest records from the public eye, and I get it. But Im not so sure.

The new law allegedly aims to help wrongly accused people avoid eternal problems with background checks that could otherwise forever portray them as arrestees and criminal defendants.

Good cause. A real problem is being tackled here. There are websites that not only post mugs of everyone arrested everywhere in the country, but also have a nasty business model to make it pay: They notify arrestees that the site will remove their photo for a fee.

Pay up, or the worst photo ever taken of you stays Google-ready for viewing by every potential employer, landlord or mother-in-law from now on.

That extortion-like practice should be outlawed. But the new law does something else instead.

Though most jail photos may show people who are later found guilty of something, major or minor, some are acquitted or their charges are totally dropped. And yeah, it is unfair that arrest records and their accompanying mugshots dont say so.

In those often unflattering jail photos, the innocent look just as guilty as everyone else.

So to help those people and maybe harm no one except sleazy website operators who make their living from something that smells a lot like blackmail and extortionthe new law automatically seals the otherwise easily found arrest records of those found not guilty or who have all charges dropped.

As advertised, the law will also somehow force websites that already have the photos to remove them without charging a fee.

That all sound flat-out good? If so, you are probably not a reporter.

Journalists doing legitimate news stories, including say, on candidates for local office, often have good cause to look up any previous encounters with police and the justice system. No matter how such cases turned out, they can be revealing.

Sometimes the key point of interest is why the heck the charges were dropped in such years-old cases. Sometimes, whats hidden when records are made hard to find is a story of well-connected arrestees who repeatedly had DUI or domestic violence charges that quietly disappeared.

Nothing to see here!

In such affluenza-related cases, defendants who already got too much protection arent the only ones happy to have the arrest trail swept away, too. Those in the justice system who make dubious decisions to drop charges will be equally glad if, years later, reporters never pick up that trail or ask questions.

Nearly every editorial futilely criticizing the bill said there is no reasonable basis for removing the records and photos of many not guilty arrestees. Too many are newsworthy.

Most such editorials use famous examples like George Zimmerman, who famously succeeded with a self-defense claim after he followed and then fatally shot a teenaged pedestrian named Trayvon Martin.

But Zimmerman is a poor example, in some ways. His arrest cant be obscured by any law. His trial was major news. The law cant help him become low profile now. And besides, he soon started loving publicity and adamantly seeking it.

There was a time, though, when not-guilty George Zimmerman could have become a better example. For a while, his arrest was little known and prosecutors had decided not to charge him. What if it had gone that way and there was no public outcry?

A law making that arrest disappear from the usual background searches could well have helped that zealous fighter of imaginary crime stay totally unknown. That would have been a great help to Zimmerman next time he went seeking a security guard job.Im glad no employer that hell ever talk to will be in the dark about his arrest and acquittal.

So, despite mixed feelings, I cant feel glad that a new state law helps all not-guilty arrestees keep their jail visits a secret. Too many of those stories deserve to be told.

Tom Lyons can be reached at tom.lyons@heraldtribune.com

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