{"id":22620,"date":"2017-02-20T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=22620"},"modified":"2017-02-20T09:41:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:41:34","slug":"trump-baffles-sweden-crime-comment-says-based-tv-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/trump-baffles-sweden-crime-comment-says-based-tv-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump baffles Sweden with crime comment, says it was based on TV report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTrump baffles Sweden with crime comment, says it was based on TV report<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\n\tTrump baffles Sweden with crime comment, says it was based on TV report:-<\/strong> A day after falsely suggesting there was an immigration-related security incident in Sweden, President Donald Trump said on Sunday his comment was based on a television report he had seen.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump, who in his first weeks in office has tried to tighten U.S. borders sharply for national security reasons, told a rally on Saturday that Sweden was having serious problems with immigrants.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"You look at what's happening last night in Sweden," Trump said. "Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having problems like they never thought possible."<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNo incident occurred in Sweden and the country's baffled government asked the U.S. State Department to explain.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"My statement as to what's happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning immigrants & Sweden," Trump said in a tweet on Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFox News, a U.S. channel that has been cited favorably by Trump, ran a report Friday about alleged migrant-related crime problems in the country.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA White House spokeswoman told reporters on Sunday that Trump had been referring generally to rising crime, not a specific incident in the Scandinavian country.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSweden's crime rate has fallen since 2005, official statistics show, even as it has taken in hundreds of thousands of immigrants from war-torn countries like Syria and Iraq.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump's comment confounded Stockholm. "We are trying to get clarity," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Catarina Axelsson said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSweden's embassy in the United States repeated Trump's tweet about having seen the Fox report, and added, "We look forward to informing the U.S. administration about Swedish immigration and integration policies."<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump has been widely criticized for making assertions with little or no supporting evidence.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe has said more than 3 million people voted fraudulently in the U.S. election, which officials say is false, and incorrectly stated that he won by the most decisive margin in decades.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSwedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom appeared to respond to Trump on Saturday by posting on Twitter an excerpt of a speech in which she said democracy and diplomacy "require us to respect science, facts and the media."<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHer predecessor was less circumspect.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound," former Foreign Minister Carl Bildt wrote on Twitter.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOther Swedes mocked Trump by posting pictures of reindeer, meatballs and people assembling IKEA furniture.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"#lastnightinsweden my son dropped his hotdog in the campfire. So sad!" Twitter user Adam Bergsveen wrote.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSource:- http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-sweden-idUSKBN15Y0QH<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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