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Link to tweet
We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. Its a terrible reminder of why we must remain vigilant, and why the president is taking steps to be proactive, rather than reactive, when it comes to our nations safety and security, press secretary Sean Spicer said at his daily briefing on Monday.
Spicer did not specifically identify the policies he was referring to.
But the proactive, rather than reactive language is similar to the rhetoric Trump and his allies have used in defending his temporary ban on refugees and by visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, which has caused a worldwide uproar.
Spicer used similar words when asked directly about the travel ban later in the briefing, saying Trump was not going to wait and react.
There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country. This was a big part of my campaign. Study the world! Trump himself wrote on Twitter earlier Monday.
read: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/01/30/the-white-house-just-cited-the-quebec-mosque-attack-to-justify-trumps-policies.html
watch press briefing:
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)riversedge
(70,442 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Not quite.
enough
(13,270 posts)potential terrorists?
heaven05
(18,124 posts)running this country who think we are all fools....surprise take your BS back to the pile you shoveled it from. Spits-sir is a POS
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Sounds like one of their own ...so what is he talking about??
The actual shooting suspect is 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a white French Canadian who is, by all appearances, a rabid anti-immigrant nationalist. A leader of a local immigration rights groups, François Deschamps, told a local paper he recognized his photo as an anti-immigrant far-right troll who has been hostile to the group online. And Bisonnettes Facebook page now taken down but still archived lists among its likes the far right French nationalist Marine Le Pen, Islam critics Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the Israeli Defense Forces, and Donald J. Trump (he also likes the liberal Canadian Party NDP along with more neutral likes such as Tom Hanks, the Sopranos and Katy Perry).
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)I think Bannon would be out
arthritisR_US
(7,300 posts)need to start that vetting in the WH!
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,300 posts)oasis
(49,480 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,411 posts)is a suspect: https://twitter.com/sureteduquebec , and that had been reported in the media.
arthritisR_US
(7,300 posts)it was terrorism perpetrated by white supremacists against the very people the WH is condemning.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)fucking assholes