White House defends taunting Sadiq Khan

Emily Shugerman
New York 13 mins ago

... The president issued several early-morning missives about the attack, in which he lashed out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan and referred to his own proposed travel restrictions as a “travel ban”. Many accused Mr Trump of politicising the tragedy and using it to further his own aims.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, however, defended the president’s tweets, saying they allow him to “speak directly to the people without the bias of the media filtering those communications.”

Hours before, Mr Trump had used the social media platform to criticise Mr Khan’s calls for calm.

“At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” Mr Trump tweeted. The mayor had been referring to the increased police presence in the city ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sadiq-khan-london-attack-twitter-criticism-white-house-defends-a7774406.html