Grisly truth about Trump’s Twitter friends

NOBODY should be even faintly surprised that Donald Trump retweeted a hideous series of videos from the far Right group Britain First.

When I wrote a book about Trump’s Twitter account this year, I uncovered evidence that the U.S. President is a genuinely nasty man with racist views — and troubling allies.

Here’s one example. On January 22 last year, the President retweeted a doctored photo of his election rival Jeb Bush holding a card reading ‘Vote Trump’. What’s truly disturbing is that it was from a Twitter account called White Genocide, which listed its location as ‘Jewmerica’. The account also gave a link to a propaganda film for Adolf Hitler called ‘The Greatest Story Never Told’. The White Genocide connection shows the U.S. President does not only have a problem with Muslims. He also has links to anti- Semitic organisations.

And then there’s the most embarrassing Trump supporter of all — the racist Ku Klux Klan. During the U.S. election, KKK leader David Duke told his loathsome supporters that failure to vote for Donald Trump was ‘treason to your heritage’.

Most politicians would be horrified by such an endorsement and reject it at once. But not Trump. For two days after Duke’s remarks he said nothing. Only after coming under pressure at a press conference did he grudgingly state that he ‘disavowed’ the Ku Klux Klan. To this day, David Duke remains a strong Trump supporter.

Following Trump’s retweeting of the Britain First videos this week, Duke said: ‘Thank God for Trump! That’s why we love him!’

The truth is that Britain First is the nearest thing we in Britain have to the KKK. That’s why Theresa May was right to denounce the U.S. president for promulgating their views.

How would Americans react to a British prime minister who stirred racial division in the United States by praising the work of the Ku Klux Klan?