Tag: law enforcement in the United Kingdom

Asked about Trump's tweet that the London tube attack was perpetrated by people known to the security services, British Prime Minister Theresa May said it is "never helpful for anyone to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation." So I think if there was a terrorist attack here, God forbid, that we would say that they were in the sights of the FBI. Trump's willingness to jump to conclusions about the London incident stands in stark contrast to his defense of his unwillingness to fully condemn the white supremacists and neo-Nazis behind the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month. "I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement," Trump explained to reporters. But you don't make statements that direct unless you know the facts. It's impossible to square "you don't make statements that direct unless you know the facts" to what Trump did Friday morning in regard to the London attack. The London attack Friday morning is, to Trump, yet more evidence of the existential threat posed by terrorism -- and proof of how politicians obsessed with political correctness refuse to properly acknowledge that threat. In the immediate aftermath of an incident in the Philippines in June, Trump noted that "it is really pretty sad what is going on throughout the world with terror." Of course, there really wasn't -- despite Trump's ongoing attempts to prove that he was right all along and that "both sides" were violent. In short: Trump is more than willing to jump to conclusions when he can comfortably fit an incident like what happened in London this morning into his existing world view.