The incident occurred on November 21 in Hamilton County, Florida, and the video first emerged on Thursday after the boy's family retained attorney Foye B. Walker for possible legal action.
The incident left the boy, identified only as Tyler, hospitalized with head contusions, according to his mother, a Trump supporter who tweets under the handle @AmericanDiaries.
The attorney, Walker, verified in a tweet that the incident occurred on a school bus in Hamilton County, and that he was representing the family. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com.
The boy's mother explained on Twitter that she believed the attackers were motivated by a Trump 2020 campaign hat that her son had previously worn to school.
She said that the boy stopped wearing the hat due to harassment, but that the bullying continued.
'To be clear, my son bought his Trump 2020 hat with his own money at the flea market a few weeks ago,' the mother wrote.
'He was proud to wear it. He wore it to School, but due to immediate bullying he put it away & didn't wear it to school again, sadly the damage was already done & [he] was now a target,' she said.
'From that point on he was steadily getting messed with. He was getting hit, tripped & verbally abused on the bus, but it all came to a head yesterday on his bus ride home,' she continued.
She said that when Tyler was examined after the school, nurses found older bruising along with the new injuries. 'He didn't tell us about the bullying, but they took it to a new level yesterday and we are just now learning what he was going through,' she said.
Video of the attack shows at least three females and two males raining blows down on Tyler's head as he tries to protect himself from the attack.
Tyler's mother says she believes the assault was racially motivated. Tyler is white, and the assailants appear to be black.
Comment: Would this qualify as a hate crime?
'Plain and simple this was a hate crime and attempted murder according to the state of Florida since it was over three kids that jumped him and these kids are older and larger,' the mother tweeted.
She said that she had contacted the police and the school district, and that the children involved had been suspended from school.
When I was a kid, my Mom told me, "Don't answer questions about who we voted for. It's none of their business." Me being totally oblivious to politics at that age didn't have a clue what they were talking about. No kid had ever asked me such things or seemed to care. We were all a bunch of mostly normal, healthy, run-around-the-playground children.
But I notice today that kids are much more aware, pick sides and suck up propaganda with the only filters being their parents. It's tribal, a sort of toned down Lord of the Flies out there, -with a strong lean towards gender bending as the new thing all the cool kids are into.
I think the atomic "duck and cover" social malaise of my childhood might have been a better entry point into the madness of adult culture.
I still have faith, however, in childhood resiliency. Hopefully this sort of incident is an outlier and when they grow up they'll clue in.