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Critics slam 'embarrassing' Mayor Khan for feuding with Trump while London faces rising knife deaths
Fox News ^ | July 14, 2018 | Lukas Mikelionis

Posted on 07/14/2018 5:15:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

London Mayor Sadiq Khan slammed President Trump’s criticism of him as “preposterous” after allowing a giant Trump balloon at anti-Trump protests in London, but critics question whether the mayor should be devoting his energy to tackling crime rather than “embarrassing” the city in front of the whole world.

Trump reignited the feud with Khan in an interview with The Sun newspaper, saying the Mayor of London “has done a terrible job” when it comes to terrorism and crime. “I think he has done a bad job on crime, if you look, all of the horrible things going on there, with all of the crime that is being brought in,” he said.

Khan called the comments “preposterous” on the BBC’s Today program on Friday, claiming that violent crime has risen across the country and London has been forced to tackle the issue with a smaller police budget.

But crime in London persists on epidemic proportions as murder rate soared by 44 percent, with 157 homicides committed compared to 109 the previous year, according to official statistics from the Metropolitan Police.

A former ambassador to the U.S., Sir Christopher Meyer, was the victim of a violent attack against him at a central London underground station this week. “I’m absolutely shocked by the level of the brutality,” his wife, Baroness Meyer, told the Times of London. “They really beat him. It’s appalling — like something you would see in a war zone....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: crime; duplicate; khan; london; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
like something you would see in a war zone....

Ha ha. These people are truly stupid.

21 posted on 07/14/2018 9:32:06 PM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
Hizzoner had to swear some sort of oath when he became mayor. Seems like it was just takiya. Not like the Muslims soldiers in the Indian Army movies “Sahib, we have pledged our honor upon the flag to serve the Queen-Empress. To break such a oath would mean an eternity of fire.”
22 posted on 07/15/2018 1:02:40 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bookmark.


23 posted on 07/16/2018 9:25:54 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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