Donald Trump tweeted about the terrorist attacks in Paris in November
2015 about 3½ hours after they occurred. The following month, he tweeted
about the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., 90 minutes after the
violence began. It took fewer than 12 hours from the time an EgyptAir
flight went missing in May 2016 for Trump to speculate publicly that the
attack was terror-related. More than a year later, it’s still not clear
what happened to the plane.
When terrorists drove a van into a crowd on London Bridge earlier this
month, Trump tweeted about the need to be “smart, vigilant and tough”
even before authorities identified terror as the motive behind the attack.
About 15 hours ago, as of this writing, a man drove a van into a group
of Muslims near a mosque in London. The attack, which killed one person
and injured 10 others, is being treated as terror-related by authorities
in Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May described the attack as “every
bit as sickening” as the attacks at the London Bridge and, earlier this
year, on Westminster Bridge.
Trump tweeted his condolences to the victims of those two earlier
attacks — both linked to the Islamic State — the same day they happened.
Trump has not tweeted about Sunday night’s attack on Muslims.
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