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    Trump slams Theresa May: Don’t focus on me, focus on terrorism

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorNovember 30, 2017No Comments3 Mins Read
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    UK Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump have had a topsy-turvy relationship

    Donald Trump has told UK Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on “terrorism” in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos.

    “Don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom,” Mr Trump tweeted.

    .@Theresa_May, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2017

    The US president had earlier retweeted three inflammatory videos posted online by a British far-right group.

    Mrs May’s spokesman said it was “wrong for the president to have done this”.

    The US and the UK are close allies and often described as having a “special relationship”. Theresa May was the first foreign leader to visit the Trump White House.

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    The videos shared by Mr Trump, who has more than 40 million followers, were initially posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a group founded by former members of the far-right British National Party (BNP).

    VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches! pic.twitter.com/11LgbfFJDq

    — Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 28, 2017

    Ms Fransen, 31, has been charged in the UK with using “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour” over speeches she made at a rally in Belfast.

    Several leading UK politicians have criticised the president for retweeting her posts, as has the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who said it was “deeply disturbing” that Mr Trump had “chosen to amplify the voice of far-right extremists”.

    And it has led to renewed calls for Mr Trump’s planned state visit to the UK to be cancelled, although Downing Street said on Wednesday that the invitation still stood.

    In hitting out at Mrs May, Mr Trump first tagged the wrong Twitter account, sending his statement to a different user with just six followers.

    He then deleted the tweet and posted it again, this time directing the message to the UK PM’s official account.

    What did Trump retweet?

    The first video purportedly shows a “Muslim migrant” attacking a young Dutch man on crutches.

    However, the claim in this tweet appears to have little substance.

    A spokesperson from the Dutch Public Prosecution Service told the BBC that the person arrested for the attack “was born and raised in the Netherlands” and was not a migrant.

    .@realDonaldTrump Facts do matter. The perpetrator of the violent act in this video was born and raised in the Netherlands. He received and completed his sentence under Dutch law.

    — Netherlands Embassy 🇺🇸 (@NLintheUSA) November 29, 2017

    The Dutch embassy in Washington DC confirmed this on Twitter.

    The second video retweeted by Mr Trump shows a man smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary.

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