The user behind that handle, Jason Bergkamp, was a Dutch writer for a white supremacist website Vanguard 14, according the news reports. The candidate Trump retweeted praise from six times. What follows is a sampling of Trump’s tweets since 2015 that have provided his millions of followers a gateway into the world of extremism, hatred and anti-Semitism: Trump has a long history of broadcasting extremists’ messages on social media. Jayda Fransen, who was convicted in 2016 for harassment of a Muslim woman, responded to Trump’s retweet of her content in a tweet saying, in part: “DONALD TRUMP HIMSLEF HAS RETWEETED THESE VIDEOS AND HAS AROUND 44 MILLION FOLLOWERS! GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Thank God for Trump! That's why we love him!” Indeed, in response to today’s tweets, American white supremacist David Duke expressed appreciation for Trump on Twitter “for showing us what the fake news media WON'T. When authority figures share this propaganda, it provides encouragement to extremists, who view it as endorsement of their hateful and bigoted views. Such extremist propaganda is one of the engines that fuels extremist movements, spreading their messages and recruiting new followers. Trump retweeted the videos from the account of Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a far right extremist anti-Muslim group with ties to the British National Party, a racist, anti-minority neo-Fascist group. It is just the latest illustration of how the president bolsters and amplifies the messages of extremists and other purveyors of hate. ![]() President Donald Trump retweeted three violent, anti-Muslim videos Wednesday.
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