Theresa May condemns Trump's retweets of UK far-right leader’s anti-Muslim videos Read more“The president is racist. Play Video 0:31 Sarah Sanders defends Trump retweets – videoDespite the backlash, the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, doubled down on Trump’s tweets even as she appeared to acknowledge their authenticity could not be confirmed. “No, look, the president has addressed these issues with the travel order [he] issued earlier this year,” he said. Jim Inhofe, a senator from Oklahoma, told PBS he hadn’t seen the anti-Muslim tweets but was critical more broadly of Trump’s social media habits. David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, celebrated Trump’s tweets.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2017 21:22 UTC