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White House defends Trump's retweets of far-right group - ABC News

posted onNovember 30, 2017
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Article snippet: The White House is defending President Trump's retweets of videos from a fringe British nationalist group that purportedly show Muslims engaging in acts of violence. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders insisted the president was not pushing an anti-Muslim propaganda or offering an endorsement of the group, but instead making the case for national security. "It’s important to talk about national security and national security threats,” Sanders said. “The president sees different things to be a national security threat and he sees having strong borders as being one of the things that helps protect people in this country from some real threats we face." “Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real and that is what the president is talking about, that’s what the president is focused on, is dealing with those real threats and those are real no matter how you’re looking at it,” she said. Trump today retweeted three unverified, anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy leader of Britain First, a far-right party widely condemned as an extremist group that targets mosques and Muslims. One of the three tweets includes video with the caption "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!" while another reads, "Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!" Another video claims to show a "Muslim migrant" beating up a "Dutch boy on crutches." The videos – whose authenticity could not be independently verified - have been called inflammato... Link to the full article to read more

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