In the spring of 2015, Evie says she found herself among a toxic friend group, experiencing a lot of bullying. She had been diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years earlier, but says it was the bullying that pushed her to a tipping point. Evie, now a 20-year-old sophomore at DePaul University, had doubts at first. “I was very much disillusioned by the Trump election and that made me kind of skeptical of electoral politics as a whole,” she recalls, speaking toTeen Vogue Eventually she turned in, hoping for a miracle that would not come. “I'm a super optimistic person, and every day [I] get up and it's a fresh day. I never let a bad day before affect the next day, ever, but I was a hot mess,” Newman tellsTeen Vogue that people should "study" what army general John Joseph Pershing "did to terrorists when caught" and claimed, "there was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years." Trump told a similar version of thisfalse story