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Donald Trump, In Piers Morgan Interview, Apologises For Retweeting ‘Horrible, Racist’ Britain First
Donald Trump has apologised for retweeting far-right Britain First, saying he knows nothing about the group and has only just learnt they are “horrible, racist people”.
In an exclusive interview with Piers Morgan aired on Good Morning Britain on Friday morning, the President said he wasn’t aware of the impact of the incident as it “wasn’t a big story” in the United States.
When asked if he would be willing to apologise as “it would go a long way” to help US-UK relations, Trump said: “Here’s what’s fair – if you’re telling me they’re horrible, racist people I would certainly apologise – I know nothing about them.
Morgan asked: ”You would disavow yourself of people like that?”
Trump replied: “I don’t want to be involved with people like that but you’re telling me about these people because I know nothing about these people.”
The incident in November prompted Theresa May to publicly criticise Trump for he first time, saying it was “wrong for the President to have done this”.
Trump hit back almost immediately:
.@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!
November 30, 2017
The videos retweeted by Trump were either unverified or have been debunked.
They included footage of migrants allegedly assaulting a boy on crutches, clips of a boy allegedly thrown of a roof and a video claiming to show a Muslim destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-britain-first_uk_5a6ac696e4b01fbbefb07288
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