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Monday, February 20th, 2017

Trump cites non-existent terrorist attack ‘last night in Sweden’ to justify Muslim ban at Florida rally

Author:     avid Ferguson
Source:     The Raw Story
Publication Date:     18 Feb 2017 at 20:13 ET
Link: Trump cites non-existent terrorist attack ‘last night in Sweden’ to justify Muslim ban at Florida rally
Stephan:   I can think of no period in my lifetime in which an average person could witness the President of the United States not only tell a lie, but tell a lie that a fourth grader could check and see was a lie. It isn't funny; this is what Fascism looks like.

Donald Trump at rally in Melbourne, FL

At his rally in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, Pres. Donald Trump listed a terror attack that never happened as part of the rationale for his controversial anti-Muslim travel ban.

In defending his executive order banning Islamic refugees and travelers from 7 Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Trump said, “When you look at what’s happening in Germany, when you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden — Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden!”

“They took in large numbers, they’re having problems like they never like they never thought possible,” he went on.

However, there was no terror attack in Sweden on Friday. Perhaps, as some Twitter users suggested, the attack in Sweden happened in the same parallel universe as Kellyanne Conway’s fictitious “Bowling Green massacre.”

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Comcha Terra @ComchaTerra

We survivors of the Bowling Green Massacre stand in solidarity with the tragic victims of The Sweden Incident. Oh, the […]

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