Network Take: The UK Meltdown over Trump Tweets

The fallout continued Thursday over President Donald Trump’s retweeting of anti-Islam videos originally posted by a British far-right fringe group. British Prime Minister Theresa May, on a foreign trip to Jordan, told reporters that “retweeting from Britain First was the wrong thing to do,” Reuters reported.

Cipher Brief experts weighed in on the possible long-term fallout on the U.S.-U.K. “special relationship.”

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