Sarah Huckabee Sanders says it doesn't matter if the anti-Muslim videos Trump retweeted are real because 'the threat is real'

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• White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to President Donald Trump promoting anti-Muslim videos on Twitter on Wednesday.
• "Whether it's a real video, the threat is real," she told reporters. "His goal is to promote strong border security and strong national security."

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it doesn't matter whether or not the anti-Muslim videos promoted by President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning are real or not because "the threat is real."

"Whether it's a real video, the threat is real," Sanders told reporters Wednesday, according to CBS News. "His goal is to promote strong border security and strong national security."

Trump's early-morning retweets included three videos posted by Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of the ultranationalist far-right group Britain First, who has previously been charged with "religious aggravated harassment" in the UK. Fransen's videos included footage portraying Muslims committing violent acts.

She tweeted alongside one, "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" Another was titled "Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary."

A third video was titled "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death."