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Borderer

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4. Inevitably, as a white supremacist Fransen also loves orange...
Thu May 6, 2021, 06:35 PM
May 2021

From her Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayda_Fransen):

"On 29 November 2017, President of the United States Donald Trump caused controversy when he retweeted three anti-Muslim videos shared by Fransen on her Twitter account. She responded on Twitter in capital letters, "The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has retweeted three of Deputy Leader Jayda Fransen’s Twitter videos! Donald Trump himself has retweeted these videos and has around 44 million followers! God bless you Trump! God bless America!" Fransen later posted a video of herself requesting Trump to assist her in a forthcoming court case in Belfast....

On 18 December 2017, Twitter permanently suspended the accounts of Fransen and Golding, together with the official account of Britain First, as part of its general policy towards any groups which glorify violence or use hate-inciting imagery to fulfil their goals.... The three retweets by Trump have been removed as a consequence of Fransen's ban. As a result of the ban, Fransen and Golding joined the Gab social networking service, and urged their followers to do likewise."

Its a pity she didn't try going door to door around Glasgow as an English Defence League candidate for the Scottish Parliament, instead of hiding behind "independent". She might usefully have learned what it feels like to be on the other end of racist abuse.

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