Trump: London bombing is reason to expand US travel ban
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US President Donald Trump called Friday for a "tougher and more specific" US travel ban after a homemade bomb exploded on a London train. The bomb exploded on a packed train during rush hour on Friday, leaving at least 22 people injured but no one seriously hurt. Police said the explosion was a terrorist attack, the fifth in Britain this year.
In a flurry of early-morning tweets, Trump called the explosion another attack "by a loser terrorist" and suggested London police missed an opportunity to prevent it. He added that his travel ban targeting six mostly Muslim nations should be "far larger, tougher and more specific - but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!"
"Another attack in London by a loser terrorist," Trump tweeted. "These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!" Scotland Yard declined comment, but British Prime Minister Theresa May quickly responded, saying: "I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation."
