Donald Trump appears to invent Sweden terror attack during Florida rally speech
Donald Trump
appeared to invent a terrorist attack in Sweden during a campaign-style rally
in Florida.
On an
evening during which he attacked the news media and the judges who ruled
against his travel ban, Trump used his speech to talk about migration in Europe
and linked it to terror attacks in Brussels, Nice and Paris before inexplicably
adding Sweden to the list.
Trump told
supporters in Melbourne "We've got to keep our country safe. You look at
what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden.
The Ex-NOAA
chief fears for 'very future of democracy' in US under Trump
"Sweden,
who would believe this. Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having
problems like they never thought possible. You look at what's happening in
Brussels. You look at what's happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice.
Take a look at Paris."
One of the
country's official Twitter accounts, controlled by a different citizen each
week, reacted with bafflement.
Its current
administrator, a school librarian, said: "Nothing has happened here in
Sweden. There has not [been] any terrorist attacks here. At all."
The
controversial orders Donald Trump has already issued 10
What Trump's remark referred to in unclear, but it
came after Fox News aired an interview with filmmaker Ami Horowitz, whose
latest documentary examines whether high crime rates in areas of the country is
attributable to its previous open-door migration policy.
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