Trump retweets inflammatory Islamophobic videos
President Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted a series of overtly Islamophobic videos shared by a controversial British far-right activist.
The videos, posted by Britain First Deputy Leader Jayda Fransen, claimed to show various violent crimes committed by Muslims. Britain First is widely known in the U.K. for spreading Islamophobic and racist videos, including many proven to be fake.
The legitimacy of the videos retweeted by Trump has not been verified.
Britain First’s list of inflammatory actions includes burying a pig on the site of a proposed mosque, and advocating for banning Islam in the U.K. following the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.
Fransen was arrested earlier this month for a speech in Belfast over the summer.
