The White House has said Donald Trump was right to retweet three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy leader of far-right group Britain First as Downing Street condemned the President’s actions.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said: ‘Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real. His goal is to promote strong border security and strong national security.

‘I’m not talking about the nature of the video.

‘You’re focusing on wrong thing. The threat is real, what the president is talking about, the need for national security and military spending, those are very real things, there’s nothing fake about that.’

The President posted the clips from the account of Jayda Fransen, who was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment in November 2016 after verbally abusing a woman wearing a hijab.

Downing Street said: ‘Britain First seeks to divide communities in their use of hateful narratives which pedal lies and stoke tensions.

‘This causes anxiety to law abiding people. British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far-right, which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents: decency, tolerance and respect.

‘It is wrong for the president to have done this.’

However a spokesman said that plans for Trump’s State Visit to the UK remain in place.

At least one of the videos retweeted by the Presidents is fake, and none of them are verified.

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The clip titled ‘VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!’ originates from Dutch website Dumpert, and has since been taken down.

It shows a person who is neither a Muslim nor a migrant, according to Dutch authorities.

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One video titled ‘Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death’ is four years old.

A second titled ‘Muslim destroys a statue of Virgin Mary’ is two years old.

The source of the videos is not clear.

Fransen was arrested again earlier this month following comments she made during a speech in Belfast and taken to Northern Ireland for questioning. She was charged with using “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour”.

Paul Golding, the leader of Britain First, told Yahoo News UK that Mr Trump’s retweets are a reaction to Fransen’s arrest by the President.

‘Free speech is dead in this country. President Trump has seen the facts and this is the result.

‘To retweet her three times consecutively shows he has heard about her plight and is disgusted by it,’ said Mr Golding.