President Trump apologizes for retweeting anti-Muslim videos

For the first time ever, US President Donald Trump has apologized for retweeting a British far-right group’s videos which allegedly showed Islamist violence.

Trump apologized for his action in an ITV interview which was aired in Britain on Friday.
According to the president, he was not aware that he is retweeting videos from a group named Britain First, which has a vendetta against the Muslims.

“If you’re telling me they’re horrible racist people, I would certainly apologise if you’d like me to do that,” he told Good Morning Britain’s Piers Morgan during the interview, conducted in Davos on Thursday.

In November, Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos, one after the other, which were initially posted by Jayda Fransen. Fransen in the deputy leader of Britain First—he was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment of a Muslim woman in 2016.

Morgan accused the president of causing “huge anxiety and anger in my country, because Britain First is basically a bunch of racists, fascists”.

“Of course I didnt know that,” Trump responded in excerpts of the interview aired Friday.

“I know nothing about them (Britain First), I know nothing about them today, other than I read a little bit,” he added.

“Perhaps it was a big story in the UK, but in the United States it wasn’t a big story.

“I did a retweet. When you do those retweets they can cause problems because you never know who’s doing it to start off with,” the president told Morgan.

After those videos were posted, it turned out that some of the actions carried out in those videos were not even by Muslims.

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