US President Donald Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos posted by far-right UK leader
The three unverified videos show purported violence by Muslims.
United States President Donald Trump invited outrage on Wednesday after he retweeted three videos depicting purported violence by Muslims. The videos were tweeted by a leader of the far-right Britain First party. The videos have not yet been verified.
Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, was convicted in 2016 for “religiously aggravated harassment” and has been arrested multiple times, including as recently as on November 19, for alleged hate speech.
One of the videos Fransen tweeted and Trump retweeted showed an “Islamist group” pushing a boy off a roof. The second claimed to show a Muslim destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary while the third showed immigrants hitting a Dutch boy on crutches.
The retweets soon met with condemnation by several Twitter users while Fransen herself expressed happiness by saying, “God Bless You, Trump” and “God Bless America”.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN'S TWITTER VIDEOS! DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAS RETWEETED THESE VIDEOS AND HAS AROUND 44 MILLION FOLLOWERS! GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA! OCS @JaydaBF @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/BiQfQkTra9
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017
VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death! pic.twitter.com/XxtlxNNSiP
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017
VIDEO: Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary! pic.twitter.com/qhkrfQrtjV
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017
VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches! pic.twitter.com/11LgbfFJDq
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 28, 2017
Jayda Fransen is a wretched human being and no matter what expectations one has for him, it's revolting and actually shocking that Trump is re-tweeting multiple hate-mongering videos from her of random Muslims doing bad things.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 29, 2017
Trump's not only gone full fascist in his retweets, he's tweeting about himself in a way that belies he's lost the plot.
— Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) November 29, 2017
Surely GOP gets asked how they can support him again?