“We are used to seeing the president of the U.S. as one of the most well-informed persons in the world, also well aware of the importance of what he says,” Carl Bildt, a former prime minister of Sweden, said by email on Monday. “And then, suddenly, we see him engaging in misinformation and slander against a truly friendly country, obviously relying on sources of a quality that at best could be described as dubious.”

While aides sought to clarify that Mr. Trump’s remarks were about a rising tide of crime in general, rather than any particular event or attack, the president chose to escalate. In a Twitter post on Monday, he accused American journalists of glossing over a dark and dangerous situation in Sweden. “Give the public a break,” he wrote. “The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!”

Sweden’s prime minister, Stefan Lofven, responded hours later at a news conference, noting that Sweden ranks highly on international comparisons of economic competitiveness and human development.

“We have challenges, no doubt about that,” he allowed. But he added pointedly, “We must all take responsibility for using facts correctly and for verifying anything we spread.”

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NYT 2018:

Sweden is a Muslim war zone

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/world/europe/sweden-crime-immigration-hand-grenades.html?

Weapons from a faraway, long-ago war are flowing into immigrant neighborhoods here, puncturing Swedes’ sense of confidence and security. The country’s murder rate remains low, by American standards, and violent crime is stable or dropping in many places. But gang-related assaults and shootings are becoming more frequent, and the number of neighborhoods categorized by the police as “marred by crime, social unrest and insecurity” is rising. Crime and immigration are certain to be key issues in September’s general election, alongside the traditional debates over education and health care.

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Part of the reason is that Sweden’s gang violence, long contained within low-income suburbs, has begun to spill out. In large cities, hospitals report armed confrontations in emergency rooms, and school administrators say threats and weapons have become commonplace. Last week two men from Uppsala, both in their 20s, were arrested on charges of throwing grenades at the home of a bank employee who investigates fraud cases.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3909541&forum_id=2#35531929)

Who made the long trip from Somalia

Our women they raped

As they tossed hand grenades

That they kept in a mobile halal cart

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3909541&forum_id=2#35532358)

stage 1: willfully misconstrue a truthful comment by trump and have 1,000 experts denounce Trump's lies.

stage 2 (much later): obliquely acknowledge the truth, but profess to be puzzled as to its cause.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3909541&forum_id=2#35532073)

Don't forget it was XO TUCKER that brought this issue up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3909541&forum_id=2#35532196)