Trump offers help as London grapples with violent incidents

June 04, 2017 | 10:35

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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump offered US help on Saturday (Jun 3) to Britain in response to reports of three violent incidents including a vehicle mowing down pedestrians on London Bridge.

US President Donald Trump's tweets after the London incidents.

"Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!," Trump wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, with the situation in London still fluid, Trump seized the occasion to plug his thwarted travel ban on people from six mainly Muslim countries.

The Justice Department on Thursday went to the Supreme Court to ask that it be reinstated immediately after it has been held up repeatedly in lower courts.

Without mentioning the London events specifically, Trump tweeted: "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!"

Trump has been briefed by his national security team on the London Bridge incident, his spokesman Sean Spicer wrote earlier on Twitter.

AFP

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