Trump: London bombing is reason to expand US travel ban
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called Friday for a "tougher and more specific" U.S. travel ban after a homemade bomb exploded on a London train.
In a flurry of early-morning tweets, Trump called the explosion another attack "by a loser terrorist" and suggested London police missed an opportunity to prevent it. He added that his travel ban targeting six mostly Muslim nations should be "far larger, tougher and more specific — but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!"
The bomb exploded on a packed train during rush hour on Friday, leaving at least 22 people injured but no one seriously hurt. Police said the explosion was a terrorist attack, the fifth in Britain this year.
"Another attack in London by a loser terrorist," Trump tweeted. "These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!"
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Scotland Yard said it would not comment on Trump's suggestion that police could have prevented the attack. Trump told reporters Friday morning that he had been briefed on the explosion and said he planned to call British Prime Minister Theresa May. Asked about his tweet on the travel ban, Trump said "we have to be tougher and we have to be smarter."
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On Friday, Trump again jumped into the fray, promoting his handling of extremist militants and saying the government should cut off the internet to such groups.
"Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner. The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off & use better!" And he argued that his administration has "made more progress in the last nine months against ISIS than the Obama Administration has made in 8 years."
Trump concluded: "Must be proactive & nasty!"
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I AGREE with everything Trump has said about Islamic Terrorism and the lunacy of being POLITICALLY CORRECT on this issue !
I also like how he goes after other PASSIVE leaders, to get them to wake up. Seemed to work when he went after other leaders for not "PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE" for defense of the world.
Keep it up Donald !