Donald Trump Spreads “Fake News” regarding Sweden Terror Attacks and Immigrants
President Donald Trump left the international community scratching it’s head over the weekend, when during a rant on terror related attacks in Europe he made reference to some incident that occurred in Sweden the night prior. Only, nobody, including Swedish officials, had any clue as to what incident he could have been talking about.
“We’ve got to keep our country safe,” Trump told a crowd of supporters in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, February 18. “You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden — Sweden, who would believe this?”
The statement had news outlets searching for recent people, places, or events in Sweden that could have been relevant to his position on the impact of the wave of migration Europe has seen from the Middle East over the past few years. He had just gotten through alluding to the Brussels, Nice, and Paris attacks, leading most to assume that he was inferring some shooting or bombing plot of some sort. One Swedish publication mockingly cited a road shut down by in-climate weather in the country’s northern region, and a high speed chase that ended with the driver’s arrest in Stockholm, but noted that not much else of significance had occurred.
Trump would later addressed the press by attempting to clarify that he was making reference to a Fox News segment on immigration and crime in Sweden, that had aired on Friday, but not before Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt made it on to Twitter to express his confusion.
