Trump took to Twitter to criticize the F.B.I., but unless you’ve been living under a big, heavy rock wearing noise canceling headphones and a sleep mask, yesterday’s news didn’t surprise you. Trump said the F.B.I.’s standing was now the “ worst in history.” The attack was one of the harshest in a generation on an independent agency that two days earlier had helped secure a guilty plea and a pledge of cooperation from the president’s first national security adviser. Later that month a supporter of the so-called Islamic State militant group (ISIS) killed eight people after mowing down pedestrians and cyclists in New York City.This is from the New York Times on December 3, 2017, but it could be from almost any news source on almost any day this year: is doing fine when it comes to terrorism follows the worst mass shooting in American history, which left 59 people dead in early October after a gunman opened fire on a concert in Las Vegas. British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn called Trump spreading messages from Britain First "dangerous and a threat to our society." early next year, which some British MPs are calling for. "British people overwhelming reject the prejudice rhetoric of the far-right, which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents decency, tolerance and respect."īut May ruled out canceling Trump's visit to the U.K. Trump's tweets cause "anxiety to law abiding people," May said. No small thing when Downing Street condemns the President of the United States /Sd1OItnYQZ- Katy Tur November 29, 2017 "It is wrong for the president to have done this." "Britain First seeks to divide communities in their use of hateful narratives which pedal lies and stoke tensions," Theresa May said in a statement Wednesday in response to Trump's tweets. far-right, anti-Islam leader who Trump retweeted? Read more: Who is Britain First's Jayda Fransen, the U.K. Police in the Netherlands have said the attacker in the video is Dutch, not a Muslim, and not a migrant as Britain First claimed. One of the posts included a video clip from the Netherlands that claimed to show a Muslim migrant assaulting a young man on crutches. The group is known for its anti-Islam political stunts, including "invading" mosques and launching "Christian patrols." Trump deleted the first tweet and wrote a new one using the prime minister's real Twitter account with 419,000 followers.Įarly Wednesday, Trump retweeted a series of Twitter posts by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, an anti-Islam, anti-immigration, nationalist political group in the U.K. The account is private and only Scrivener's followers can read the tweets. Scrivener has sent out a total of nine tweets to her six followers from an account set up in 2009. We are doing just fine!" Trump wrote on Twitter in response to a statement made against him by the prime minister on Wednesday.Ībout 20 minutes later, Trump realized he had the wrong Theresa and had instead tweeted at a woman named Theresa Scrivener. "Theresa don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. President Donald Trump was quick to hit back at Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May after she criticized his anti-Muslim tweets on Wednesday-but he accidently tweeted his reply to the wrong woman.
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