President Trump does not know much about anything, and he doesn't much care what he does or doesn't know. He is the Low Information Voter President. That makes his free-range access to Twitter, a cesspool of unverified information and rampant hate, a serious problem—particularly when he can amplify some of the worst information available on the platform to his 44 million followers. We saw this during the campaign, when he would retweet accounts with the handle "White Genocide" and pass on disgusting misinformation about black-on-white crime. But today he seems to have retweeted his way down a new, incredibly dark path.

In three successive early-morning social posts, the President of the United States shared unverified videos from the deputy leader of a British far-right hate group called "Britain First." The name probably caught Trump's attention, as he's been clinging desperately to his "America First" shtick as the tempests of the Russia probe and a thousand daily scandals swirl around him. But Britain First, according to The Independent, has been condemned as an extremist nationalist group. The account tied to the deputy, Jayda Fransen, is partly automated and frequently shares unverified videos that claim to show immigrants and Muslims attacking (white) people in Europe.

That's what the leader of the free world shared today. To be clear, there is no evidence these videos are real or show what they purport to show.

Even if these videos were verified, it would be irresponsible for the President of the United States to share them in an official capacity. Previous presidents, including George W. Bush, made it a priority not to suggest extremists represented the Muslim community at large. But these clips are not even proven to be real. The president is simply saying things again, like he always does, except this time he's parroting the words of someone who was just arrested in Northern Ireland for hate speech—"the latest," according to The Independent, "in a series of incidents over alleged hate speech, religious harassment and incitement by Britain First members."

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Many Americans would rightly see that arrest as contrary to the spirit of free speech and our First Amendment. But there's no question what Fransen and her crew are about. By all indications, this group makes Nigel Farage's UKIP look like advocates for socialist multiculturalism. Britain First members traveled to Poland for what amounted to a white nationalist convention earlier this year, where they rubbed shoulders with like-minded folks in a large public demonstration. Proto-fascists marching in the streets of Warsaw? What could go wrong? This seems a good place to share that a member of British parliament, Jo Cox, was brutally murdered last year by a far-right extremist shouting "Britain First" throughout the attack. It remains unclear if that was in reference to the group specifically.

There was further proof of just how bad Trump's morning was in Fransen's fawning celebration. This person seems well adjusted, like someone whose views the United States president should amplify:

By the way, "OCS," according to The Independent, means "Onward Christian Soldiers." Not for the first time, you can read "Christian" here as "White." This whole episode has jarring similarities to Trump's treatment of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. After hundreds of Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, and those who think it's a good idea to rub shoulders with them marched armed through an American city, and after one white supremacist killed an anti-racist protester with his car in what even Attorney General Jeff Sessions called an act of domestic terrorism, the president suggested there were "very fine people on both sides." That is to say, the President of the United States believed good people march alongside Nazis.

And let's not even bother with the argument that it's "just Twitter." We saw more evidence just this week that his tweets are seen by the world at large as official communications from the president. Our Dear Leader spends his days tweeting complaints about his coverage on CNN, attempting to undermine it and the free press in general as "Fake News," and some outside our borders are taking notice. The Libyan media cited Trump's tweet attacking CNN International to question whether a CNN report on modern-day slavery in that country was accurate.

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Hint: It was accurate. There are slave auctions being held, today, across Libya. CNN published a bombshell report that had a chance of rallying people to change that, but the president has undermined it for his own perceived gain. He likely still does not know what he did, or the ramifications of it. The lives of people standing on a slaver's auction block are just something else to be trampled on his endless road to self-gratification. After sharing the Britain First tweets today, Trump again attacked CNN, calling for a boycott.

If you need more proof about how bad today's behavior was, just look at the chorus of voices condemning it. It includes British political leaders (both Labour and Conservative), Paul Joseph Watson (a denizen of the staunchly pro-Trump InfoWars), and Piers Morgan (who is Piers Morgan).

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Trump sharing Britain First. Let that sink in. The President of the United States is promoting a fascist, racist, extremist hate group whose leaders have been arrested and convicted. He is no ally or friend of ours. @realDonaldTrump you are not welcome in my country and my city. — David Lammy (@DavidLammy) November 29, 2017

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Yeah, someone might want to tell whoever is running Trump's Twitter account this morning that retweeting Britain First is not great optics. 🤔 — Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 29, 2017

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Good morning, Mr President @realDonaldTrump - what the hell are you doing retweeting a bunch of unverified videos by Britain First, a bunch of disgustingly racist far-right extremists?

Please STOP this madness & undo your retweets. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 29, 2017

As always, it's unclear whether Trump has any idea what he's done or what he's doing. It's unlikely he knows Britain has a parliament, much less about the intricacies of far-right British politics—though he does know Nigel Farage, whom he brought to Mississippi (!) for a campaign event. (The Deep South crowd's warm response to Farage, a former London investment banker with an upper-crust accent, is proof positive this movement is not about American identity. It's about white identity.) Maybe, we'll hear, Trump is trying to distract attention from the plutocratic Republican tax plan, which is making its way through Congress in the dead of night with no hearings and without even a definite text for the Senate bill.

In the end, it doesn't matter what Trump's intent was or if he knows what he did. In the realm of foreign policy and geopolitics, intentions are secondary to how something is received. This was received, by the most extreme ethnic nationalists of Britain's far-right, as an endorsement from the President of the United States. It will be perceived, by the many groups "Britain First" would happily persecute, as a threat to their well-being. What a nice diversion from the exploding threat of nuclear war with North Korea. But Republicans have made it clear: It's all worth it if they can cut those taxes on corporations and the rich.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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