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struggle4progress

(118,274 posts)
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 04:50 PM Feb 2017

Sweden Asks, 'Wait, What?'

February 19, 20171:11 PM ET
CAMILA DOMONOSKE

... On Friday night — the night in question — a few things did, in fact, happen in Sweden. A Stockholm newspaper helpfully laid out a few of them:

Technical problems threatened to derail a performance by singer Owe Thörnqvist.

Harsh weather in the north of the country shut down a road.

A high-speed chase in Stockholm ended with the driver under arrest.

Aftonbladet listed a few more, to be sure — the trouble is, none of those events fits what Trump implied by including Sweden in a list of places that had recently suffered terrorist attacks ...


http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/19/516097504/trump-says-look-whats-happening-in-sweden-sweden-asks-wait-what

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Sweden Asks, 'Wait, What?' (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP
Trump is just a vile putz. Doreen Feb 2017 #1
Everyone in Sweden please relax. Nothing is happening. NCjack Feb 2017 #2

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
2. Everyone in Sweden please relax. Nothing is happening.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 05:04 PM
Feb 2017

A new tactic in the USA is the Republican President and Staff are claiming to report obvious lies as fake news. Again, Nothing happened, just as the "Bowling Green Massacre" did not happen. Recently the President and his Staff find that using Russian-style propaganda to be effective in fooling the people into seeking increased security by accepting their bullshit.

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