The following article by Jennifer Mercieca, Associate Professor of Communications and Director of the Aggie Agora at Texas A&M University was posted on the Conversation website November 29, 2017:
On Nov. 29, President Trump retweeted a series of videos that purported to depict violence committed by Muslims. They had originated from the account of a far-right British ultranationalist who had been convicted for harassing a Muslim. The backlash was swift, with British Prime Minister Theresa May saying “the President is wrong to have done this.”
But Trump’s retweeting of controversial (sometimes outright false) content is part of a pattern.
For example, during the 2016 campaign, George Stephanopoulos askedDonald Trump about his retweet of a follower who insisted that both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were ineligible for the presidency. Continue reading “There’s an insidious strategy behind Donald Trump’s retweets”