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22nd Mar 2017

Donald Trump Jr’s response to the London attack is causing outrage

Is now really the time?

Alan Loughnane

Is now really the time?

On Wednesday afternoon, four people were killed in incidents in Westminster, London.

A police officer was stabbed and killed by a man outside the British houses of parliament and on Westminster bridge, a car ploughed into a group of people killing two of them and injuring at least 20 others.

The alleged assailant was shot and killed at the scene.

More details of the attack continue to emerge but police say they’re treating the incident as an act of terrorism until they can prove otherwise.

Following the incident, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, tweeted about the incident in typical Trump fashion.

He tweeted an article that was written seven months ago by The Independent, where they interviewed London Mayor Sadiq Khan who spoke about the threat of terrorist attacks in major cities.

Trump Jr commented: “You have to be kidding me?!”

The article is about Khan’s plea that people remain vigilant and that London needs to be prepared and ready for the threat of a terror attack.

One line of the piece states: “That means being vigilant, having a police force that is in touch with communities, it means the security services being ready, but it also means exchanging ideas and best practice.”

It seems that Trump Jr shared the article without reading the piece at all…

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