President Donald Trump spent part of his Wednesday morningretweeting three videos about alleged Islamist violence. One claimed to show a Muslim man destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary; another professed to have captured a “Muslim migrant” beating up a “Dutch boy on crutches,” and a third seemed to show Muslim men pushing a boy off a building.
There were two problems. First, at least one of the videos was fake; reports quickly emerged showing that the perpetrator in the video about the Dutch boy is apparently neither Muslim nor a migrant. The video of teens being pushed from a rooftop is apparently three and a half years old and took place in Egypt, during a spasm of violence following the ouster of then-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. At least one of the perpetrators was executed for the crime. The third video’s source remains unverified.
The much more disturbing issue is that the videos had all been originally posted by Jayda Fransen, a leader of a far-right British political party called Britain First.
She was arrested last month for appearing on neo-Nazi radio show while facing trial for causing religiously aggravated harassment. The radio show is called Radio Aryan whose tagline is “Save the Fatherland,” and the day she appeared on the station was doing a retelling of Mein Kampf. So yeah that’s the kind of person Trump is listening to & spreading info from.
