President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared a series of videos with his Twitter followers portraying Muslims as violent and dangerous, drawing condemnation from British Prime Minister Theresa May’s office.
All three videos were originally posted to Twitter by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the far-right, ultranationalist group Britain First. She was found guilty last year of religiously aggravated harassment of a Muslim woman.
In one video, labeled by Fransen as “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches,” a young man beats up another young man, who is using crutches, punching him until he falls to the ground and then kicking him several times. There is no obvious indication, aside from Fransen’s accompanying text, that the assailant is Muslim.
The second of Fransen’s video’s retweeted by Trump features a bearded man shattering a statue of the Virgin Mary. In the third, a group of men, including one carrying a black flag, attack another group, beating them as they fall from a higher ledge.
“It is wrong for the president to have done this,” a spokesman for May said, saying Britain First uses “hate-filled narratives to peddle lies and stoke tensions.”
Thomas Mair, who killed British MP Jo Cox last year, shouted “Britain First” as he shot and stabbed the Labour politician.
Cox’s widow, Brendan Cox, accused Trump on Wednesday of spreading hatred and trying to legitimize the far-right in Britain. He said “the president should be ashamed of himself.”
“Trump has legitimised the far right in his own country, now he’s trying to do it in ours. Spreading hatred has consequences,” Cox tweeted Wednesday.
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Trump retweeted three videos by Jayda Fransen, a far-right figure in the U.K. who was found guilty last year of religiously aggravated harassment of a Muslim woman https://t.co/WDlirO5k1E pic.twitter.com/jbPzOJklWU
— POLITICO (@politico) November 29, 2017
David Duke after Trump tweets videos of Muslims attacking people: "That's why we love him!" https://t.co/xQ0NzWM8SR pic.twitter.com/UdnVjXsbab
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 29, 2017
JUST IN: White House defends Trump: It doesn't matter if anti-Muslim videos are real or fake https://t.co/jZUjeXZgAS pic.twitter.com/R4zPZhMtaw
— The Hill (@thehill) November 29, 2017
He’s just helping his friend Putin.
Just for the record @SarahHuckabee’s defense of the Anti-Muslim tweets boils down to they’re fake but accurate.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) November 29, 2017
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