DEJA VU DONALD: America's Donald Trump Once Again Slammed For Reaction To UK Terror Attacks

16 September 2017

HuffPost and Agencies

Theresa May has taken aim at Donald Trump after the President claimed that the suspects who carried out the Parsons Green attack were known to police.

The Prime Minister slammed Trump's comments about the ongoing investigation as not "helpful", adding police and security services were still working to discover the "full circumstances" of the "cowardly attack".

The rush hour blast, which took place on the Underground's District Line at 8.20am, left 29 people injured.

Pictures on social media from the scene of the incident showed a fire in a bucket with what appeared to be wires sticking out.

A police man hunt is now underway as officers continue the search for those responsible for the attack.

Trump took to Twitter to comment on the situation just hours after the explosion.

Writing that London had been attacked by another "loser terrorist" who was "in the sights of Scotland Yard", he demanded that police "must be proactive" and the internet should be cut off to stop extremism.

The President used his third tweet about the attack to push his so-called Muslim travel ban in the US, saying it should be "far larger, tougher and more specific".

Asked about Trump's comments after an emergency Cobra meeting this afternoon, May said: "I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation.

"As I have just said, the police and security services are working to discover the full circumstances of this cowardly attack and to identify all those responsible."

The Prime Minister's response was echoed by her former chief of staff, Nick Timothy, who tweeted: "True or not - and I'm sure he doesn't know - this is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner."

The Metropolitan Police were equally quick to dismiss Trump's accusations that the force was aware of the attacker before the explosion, calling his comments "speculation".

A spokesperson for the force told The Independent: "We don't even know who the suspects are so it's a bit difficult to say. It's just speculation."

However, Sadiq Khan refused to be drawn into the debate, saying he was "absolutely not going to go there".

The Mayor of London's response comes just months after Trump called Khan "pathetic" in the wake of the London Bridge attacks, accusing him of telling Londoners there was "no reason to be alarmed".

Speaking to LBC host James O'Brien about Trump's tweets, Khan said: "I've simply been too busy this morning to look at my Twitter.

"I'm absolutely not going to go there James, my priority is making sure that we do what we can to keep Londoners safe.

"Our priority today is catching the individual or individuals responsible, and the police and security services, and all of us are doing our bit to make sure that happens."

Donald Trump Uses London Tube Attack To Promote Travel Ban

Alana Horowitz Satlin

Assignment Editor, HuffPost


President Donald Trump responded to a terror attack in a London Underground station on Friday by saying that the U.S. should expand his ban of travelers from predominately Muslim countries.

He later told reporters that, "we have to be tougher [on terrorism]. Perhaps we're not nearly tough enough."

Trump signed a revised executive order earlier this year blocking travelers from six majority-Muslim countries, including Syrian refugees, from the United States.

Multiple federal appeals courts had blocked the ban, but in June, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from the administration of those rulings, giving the executive order a temporary green light.

Trump has previously used a terrorist attack in Britain to promote the ban. In June, he responded to an assault on London Bridge by tweeting, "we need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!" He also attacked London Mayor Sadiq Khan's response to the attack, prompting Khan to call on U.K. officials to cancel the president's upcoming visit.

Khan, the U.K. capital's first Muslim mayor, responded to Trump's tweets on Friday by saying, "I'm not going to go there."

A police spokesperson told CNN that Trump's comments on Scotland Yard were "pure speculation" and "unhelpful."

British Prime Minister Theresa May also criticized Trump's tweets, saying that, "I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation."

Trump's quick response to the attack belies claims he made in August following the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he waited two days to condemn the far-right groups behind the event.

"I couldn't have made it sooner, because I didn't know all of the facts," he said at the time. "It was very important to me to get the facts out and correctly. Because if I would have made a fast statement and the first statement was made without knowing much other than what we were seeing." 

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