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demmiblue

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Sat Jul 20, 2019, 09:59 AM Jul 2019

Donald Trump in new attack on Sadiq Khan with Katie Hopkins retweet [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump has retweeted the British far-right commentator Katie Hopkins and launched another attack on Sadiq Khan.

Referring to a message from Hopkins that the Met’s Twitter account had been targeted by hackers on Friday night, in which she said officers had “lost control of London streets” and “lost control of their Twitter account too”, Trump tweeted: “With the incompetent mayor of London, you will never have safe streets!”

It is Trump’s latest move in an ongoing spat with Khan, during whichhe called the London mayor a “national disgrace” and “stone cold loser”, comments dismissed by the London mayor as childish.

Minutes before his latest jibe against Khan, Trump retweeted videos posted by Hopkins that supported the US president’s recent racist attacks on four US congresswomen.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/20/donald-trump-sadiq-khan-katie-hopkins-tweet




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