{"id":7269,"date":"2018-01-27T21:08:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T21:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2018-01-27T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T21:08:30","slug":"trump-ready-to-apologize-over-britain-first-retweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/trump-ready-to-apologize-over-britain-first-retweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ready to apologize over Britain First retweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7270\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Trump-1.jpg\" alt=\"Trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>U.S. President Donald Trump said he was ready to apologize for retweeting posts from a fringe far-right group Britain First last year.<br \/>\nIn an interview with British ITV channel, Trump said he knew \u201cnothing\u201d about the organization when he retweeted three video clips it had posted.<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s official Twitter account retweeted a series of inflammatory anti-Muslim videos in November 2017.<br \/>\nThe three clips were previously tweeted by Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, who was convicted by a U.K. court in November 2016 of religiously aggravated harassment.<br \/>\nThe videos were automatically tweeted and retweeted by at least three accounts associated with the group. The accounts have since been suspended by Twitter.<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to cause any difficulty for your country,\u201d Trump said in his interview with ITV\u2019s Piers Morgan. The full interview is to be broadcast on Sunday.<br \/>\n&#8220;If you are telling me they&#8217;re horrible people, horrible, racist people, I would certainly apologize if you&#8217;d like me to do that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/trump-ready-to-apologize-over-britain-first-retweets\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said he was ready to apologize for retweeting posts from a fringe far-right group Britain First last year. In an interview with British ITV channel, Trump said he knew \u201cnothing\u201d about the organization when he retweeted three video clips it had posted. Trump\u2019s official Twitter account retweeted a series of inflammatory &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7271,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}