Does this image show injured female Trump supporter? Fact Check

A photo purportedly showing an injured female Trump supporter is spreading across social media.

The photo has spread across social media with several different captions attached to it, and in nearly every case those captions claim that the woman in the photo is a Donald Trump supporter who was severely beaten while out protesting or voting. Such captions include –

Here’s what happened to female Trump supporter when she met ‘peaceful’ and ‘tolerant’ liberals.

Injuries sustained for the crime of supporting Trump. This is how the new left treats women.

The result of Fascism in America… simply because she was a Trump supporter.

The photo began spreading with these captions in mid-2016, during the backdrop of a very contentious US presidential election between President Trump and Hillary Clinton. Specifically, it was originally claimed that the photo depicted a Trump supporter who was attacked after a rally in San Jose when several Trump supporters really were punched and had eggs pelted at them by protesters outside.

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While those attacks really did happen, the above photo does not show a victim of such attacks. In fact a simple image search reveals that the woman in the photo is Samara Weaving, niece of the actor Hugo Weaving from the popular The Matrix franchise. Additionally, those injuries on her face are not real, rather they are special effects make-up for her role in Ash vs. Evil Dead.

Since mid-2016, her photo has spread across the Internet on several different occasions, each time claiming to show a victim of a recent attack upon a Trump supporter. More recently in 2018 the photo resurfaced once again during the run-up to the 2018 US midterm elections, and it’s just as false in 2018 as it was in 2016.