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”.
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