It’s difficult to come to any other conclusion after reading 3 tweets from far-right British politician Jayda Fransen, the acting leader of BritainFirst. Just how odious is Ms. Fransen? In 2016, she was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment for hurling abuse at a hijab-wearing woman during a “Christian patrol” of a public park.
Each of the tweets included a video purporting to show Muslim violence against Christians or Christian symbols. The first re-Tweet reads:
VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!
The next one reads:
VIDEO: Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!
The final one reads:
VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!
It speaks volumes about our so-called President that he apparently follows this neo-fascist on Twitter and actually reads her posts. (I say neo-fascist because her Twitter site includes video of her and some followers wearing fascist-style uniforms carrying crosses.) She only has a little more than 50,000 Twotter followers (or at least did until Trump’s retweets, but is apparently rapidly gaining more followers since he did so). It’s instructive that the President of the United States is apparently among them.
And she and her followers clearly appreciate the support from Trump. After he retweeted her, she posted the following Tweet:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN'S TWITTER VIDEOS! DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAS RETWEETED THESE VIDEOS AND HAS AROUND 44 MILLION FOLLOWERS! GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA! OCS @JaydaBF @realDonaldTrump
I have no idea what OCS is supposed to mean. She continued Tweeting brags about Trump retweeting her, including headings referring to her posts as “hate speech” and “Islamophobic.” Trump giving this bigot more publicity is particularly problematic as she is currently facing criminal charges in Belfast, Northern Ireland for fomenting hatred there.