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Monday, February 20, 2017
After FAKE terror attack, Trump stays stuck on Sweden
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA day after landing in lukewarm water over apparently claiming a terror incident had occurred in Sweden, and later explaining that he had actually been referring to a Fox News segment, US President Donald Trump is continuing to point fingers at Stockholm, claiming the country is in trouble for letting in too many immigrants.
On Twitter, Trump claims that the “FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully.” His addition of “NOT!” at the end presumably refers to the journalists’ contention, and not his own statement.
Give the public a break – The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2017
Trump’s claim at a Saturday rally, which befuddled Swedes and led Stockholm to officially ask the State Department to clear some of the fog on the issue from Foggy Bottom, was apparently based on a segment aired by Tucker Carlson Friday night in which he interviewed documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz on a new movie claiming to show a spike in crime in Sweden due to the influx of migrants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzjfAMk-RI
On Twitter, former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt hits back at Trump, writing that there were more murders in central Florida, where Trump held his rally, than in Sweden last year, though he misidentifies the location of Melbourne, Florida, which is actually in Brevard County and not Orange.
Last year there were app 50% more murders only in Orlando/Orange in Florida, where Trump spoke the other day, than in all of Sweden. Bad.
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) February 20, 2017
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