President Trump extended his flirtation with racist extremists internationally on Wednesday — and drew a rare rebuke from two European allies — by retweeting three anti-Muslim videos from a far-right fringe group in Britain. “It is wrong for the president to have done this,” said James Slack, spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May. Its deputy leader, whose Twitter posts Trump retweeted, was arrested last week on suspicion of inciting hatred and violence and was convicted last year of harassing a Muslim. Trump’s posts were just his latest to cause trouble diplomatically since he took office. Cox wrote on Twitter, “Trump has legitimized the far right in his own country, now he’s trying to do it in ours.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 30, 2017 00:22 UTC