White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that it doesn't matter whether the anti-Muslim videos retweeted by President Donald Trump are real or not, because "the threat is real." Trump shared three videos on Twitter early Wednesday from the deputy leader of an ultranationalist, far-right fringe group in Britain. The group, Britain First, claims to be fighting the "Islamization" of England, and the graphic videos purported to show Muslims committing violent crimes. The videos were titled, "Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!", "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!", and "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!" Within minutes of Trump's retweets, numerous news outlets reported that a number of the videos' titles were false or misleading. Sanders, however, told reporters that by focusing on "the nature of the video, you're focusing on the wrong thing."

White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders conducts a daily news briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House May 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Getty Images

"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," she said. Sanders didn't elaborate on exactly what "the threat" was, but Trump has long portrayed Islam as a danger to the United States. Early in his presidential campaign, Trump proposed banning all Muslims from traveling to the United States. Since assuming the presidency, his administration has been locked in a legal battle over its effort to institute a ban on travelers from various majority Muslim countries. Sanders said Trump was helping to address the "threat" by "bringing it up."