Trump: What I said about Sweden I saw in a tv show

One day after claiming falsely that there was an incident in Sweden where it threatened the security of the country…
of immigrants, the american president, ” Donald Trump said yesterday that his statement was based on a report he saw on tv.
The Trump, who in the first weeks as president he has tried to intensify checks at the u.s. border for reasons of national security, said at a gathering on Saturday that Sweden had serious problems with their immigrants.
“Look at what happened last night in Sweden,” he said. “In Sweden! Who can believe it, Sweden! Received a large number of immigrants. They have problems that they could never imagine,” she said.
Hadn’t happened in any episode in Sweden, and I wondered Swedish government requested explanations from the ministry of Foreign affairs.
“My statement as to what is going on in Sweden has to do with an episode that was broadcast in the (channel) Fox News and it was about immigrants, and Sweden,” he said in a posting on Twitter yesterday.
Fox News, in which the Trump is generally referred to with positive words, μετέδοσε a show Friday on crimes in the country in accordance with the channel reportedly had a relationship with immigrants.
A White House spokesman told reporters yesterday that the Trump was referring in general to the increase of crime, not on a specific episode in the scandinavian country.
The crime rate in Sweden has decreased since 2005, according to official statistics, although the country has been welcoming hundreds of thousands of immigrants from war-torn countries such as Syria and Iraq.
The declaration of the Trump left Sweden shocked. “We’re trying to get clarification,” said the representative of the ministry of Foreign affairs Katharina Άξελσον.
The Swedish embassy in the United States, repeated the tweet of the Trump for the report you saw on channel Fox, and added, “we Look forward to inform the american government on the Swedish policy on migration and integration”.

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