[SIZE=6]Trump Retweets Inflammatory Islamophobic Videos[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]The tweets came from a British far-right leader with a history of spreading hoaxes.[/SIZE]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted a series of overtly Islamophobic videos shared by a controversial British far-right activist.
The videos, posed 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.
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Britain First’s list of inflammatory actions includes burying a pig on the site of a proposed mosque, and advocating banning Islam in the U.K. following the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.
Britain First describes itself as “a patriotic political party and street movement that opposes and fights the many injustices that are routinely inflicted on the British people.”
“We want our people to come first, before foreigners, asylum seekers or migrants and we are overtly proud of this stance,” the group says in its mission statement. “We want British jobs for British workers and will make sure that our workers come first.”
The group seeks to “restore Christianity as the bedrock and foundation of our national life” and “make Britain a beautiful country once again where you can leave your door unlocked and your children can play in the streets.”
Fransen was arrested earlier this month for a summer speech in Belfast. She and Paul Golding, another Britain First member, were charged in September with causing religiously aggravated harassment for posting videos online during a gang rape trial.