Karl Bildt Quotes
Sweden? Terror Attacks? What has he [President Donald Trump] been smoking?
The President had used Sweden as an example of a nation where liberal Muslim immigration policy led to violent terror attacks. The difficulty was that there had been no Terrorist attacke in Sweden despite their relatively liberal Muslim immigration policy. Trump had a penchant for exaggerations, hyperbole, and often just making up false material. This was a case of the latter. Trump supporters explained that liberal Muslim immigration generally causes domestic terrorirst attacks and Sweden was an exception that proves the rule. Critics should focus on the principle and not on the particular example.. Critics reject buth the principle and the false example where the President has an entire staff of speech writers and fact checkers and his falshoods are deliberate and his style of debate and argument where he lies to better convince the American people, most of whom do not have the time and often not the resorces to see if their president was deceiving them.
Karl Bildt, Reaction to U. S. President Donald Trump's press conferecne where he falsely referred to Terror Attacks in Sweden when there had been no such despite a liberal Moslem immigration policy Quoted on ABC Thsi Week, February 19, 2017
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Donald Trump had won the presdiency by winning a majority of the votes of the Electoral College. However his opponent Hillary Clinton garnered about 2 million more votes. Several other presidents have won with a minority vote. These occurances did not affect the Presidents' legitimacy as the Electoral College was specified in the Constitution, However, it did undercut the concept that the President had a mandate. Other presidents just carried on and either earded the respect of the majoprity of AMericans or did not over time. Howevewr, Trump, who was so sensitive and fragile about his image, kept responding to comedians like Bee by claiming that the only reason he lost the poular vote was voter fraud by illegal immigrants. However he never offered any evidence of such and there were no convictions for same or even arrests and trials.
