Piers Morgan has today hit back at Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen after she demanded an apology from him when he accused her of being ‘racist’ during his interview with Donald Trump.
Ms Fransen, 31, was in Belfast to attend court for a hate speech charge and said that the journalist ‘misled’ the President during his questioning.
The 71-year-old was speaking to him in Davos, Switzerland, and was asked about the ‘anti-Muslim’ videos he retweeted which were originally posted on the far-right group’s account.
He eventually said he would apologise after Morgan informed him that the group is considered to be ‘racist’ in the UK.
Jayda Fransen (pictured) has hit back and challenged Piers to sit down with her to discuss the ‘horrific accusations’ he made
Piers Morgan hit back and wrote online: ‘Sorry I wasn’t more offensive about you’ after she said he made ‘horrific accuastions’
The 71-year-old (left) was asked by Piers Morgan (right) whether he wanted to say sorry and replied: ‘I would certainly apologise if you would like me to do that’
But Ms Fransen replied: ‘In this instance he has completely misled the President of the United States by claiming I am something I am not.
‘I have challenged Piers Morgan to sit down with me and to discuss these absolutely horrific accusations that I am a horrible nasty racist – something I wholeheartedly refute.’
But Piers quickly tweeted: ‘Here’s my apology to her: ‘Sorry I wasn’t more offensive about you.’
It comes after Trump was publicly criticised after he retweeted three clips which purportedly showed ‘anti-Muslim’ material.
They were initially posted by British nationalist Ms Fransen, who has been convicted of hate crimes, and Theresa May condemned the President.
Trump was asked about the controversial retweets during the interview, which was aired on Good Morning Britain, and said he did not know who Britain First were when the messages were posted last November.
US President Donald Trump has now publicly apologised for retweeting videos which were initially posted online by far-right group Britain First
He said that he retweeted the videos because he is a ‘big believer in fighting Islamic terror’ and also said he is the ‘least racist person that anybody’s going to meet’.
The President said: ‘When you do those retweets it can cause problems, because you never know who’s doing it to start off with.
‘I don’t know who they are, I know nothing about them, so I wouldn’t be doing that. I am, as I say often, the least racist person that anybody’s going to meet.
‘Certainly I wasn’t endorsing anybody. I knew nothing about them. They had I guess a couple of depictions of radical Islamic terror.
‘Radical Islamic terror, whether you like talking about it or not Piers, it’s a fact.
‘Here’s what’s fair, if you’re telling me they’re horrible people, horrible racist people I would certainly apologise if you would like me to do that.’