Sean Spicer Makes Up Atlanta Islamist Terror Attack

[GennGreymane]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...st-attack.html

Kellyanne Conway’s “Bowling Green massacre” isn’t the only case of a White House aide pointing to a terror attack that didn’t happen to make the case for President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order limiting travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has repeatedly pointed to Atlanta, along with San Bernardino and Boston, as one of three U.S. cities that have been attacked by Islamist terrorists to argue that the Trump administration needed to act quickly to prevent another attack in the future.

While the Boston bombing and shootings in San Bernadino were both carried out by Islamist terrorists, neither involved foreign nationals from the seven countries in Trump’s executive order. There has never been an Islamist terror attack in Atlanta.

In a Jan. 29 appearance on ABC’s This Week, Spicer explained to Martha Raddatz that the White House needed to implement its executive order quickly, before another terror attack could take place. “What do we say to the family that loses somebody over a terroristic (sic), to whether it’s Atlanta or San Bernardino or the Boston bomber?”

Spicer used a similar line the following day on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, when The New York Times’ Jeremy Peters asked him if President Trump had signed the executive order as the result of an imminent terror threat on U.S. soil. “Too many of these cases that have happened, whether you’re talking about San Bernardino, Atlanta, they’ve happened, Boston,” Spicer said. “Jeremy, what—do you wait until you do? The answer is we act now to protect the future.”

At the White House press briefing later that day, Spicer again pointed to Atlanta to explain the need for the “extreme vetting” provided in the White House’s executive order.

“I don’t think you have to look any further than the families of the Boston Marathon, in Atlanta, in San Bernardino to ask if we can go further,” Spicer said. “There’s obviously steps that we can and should be taking, and I think the president is going to continue do to what he can to make sure that this country is as safe as possible.”

Seamus Hughes, the deputy director of George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, said Atlanta should not be included.
“There has not been a successful jihadi terror attack in Atlanta,” Hughes said.

The White House did not respond to a request to clarify what Spicer was referring to when he named to Atlanta in a list of past Islamist attacks. In 1996, a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park during the Atlanta Olympic Games, but Eric Robert Rudolph, a Florida-born domestic terrorist, was convicted of that bombing.

While Conway and Spicer have been naming attacks that haven’t happened, President Trump yesterday accused the press of not adequately reporting terror attacks that did happen.

“It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it,” the president said after meeting with military brass at CENTCOM in Tampa, Florida. “They have their reasons, and you understand that.”
To illustrate the president’s point, the White House released a list of 78 Islamist terror attacks around the world since 2014.
Atlanta was not on the White House’s list.

Whats with all these fake attacks? Are there just so many we cant keep track? Scary world we live in!

[Cyberowl]

You are really out to trigger people today, aren't you?

You have the WH admitting they will call everything fake news that criticizes them, you shouldn't be surprised about this.

[ParanoiD84]

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Whats with all these fake attacks? Are there just so many we cant keep track? Scary world we live in!

There may not be as many in the west, the middleast and africa have thousands of attacks going on though but no need to track them.

The jihadis probably like the lies as they like to think they can attack anywhere but they fail tons of attacks in alot of places, the inteligence services are doing a wonderful job stopping plenty oh plenty of attacks.

[Machismo]

Clearly, he was working with alternate facts.

[Deleted]

Meanwhile in Sweden extreme right wing terrorists have burned down over 50 refugee centers, many with people still inside. The greatest threat to the western world is definately the extreme right.

[Underverse]

Working overtime to create an alternative reality filled with alternative facts. This administration really wants us to be petrified.

[Shadowferal]

More like "Alt-lanta attacks"
*rimshot*

Probably a disenfranchised Falcons fan...

[Deleted]

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Whats with all these fake attacks? Are there just so many we cant keep track? Scary world we live in!

It's more a thing of people lying blatantly and a vast population of sheep swallowing these lies because they come of a source which is somehow appeasing them. Most people cannot handle the truth because its uncomfortable to them - they don't like to be proven wrong, especially. Instead of taking these situations as a chance to set things right and probably also to evolve to be a better person (in whichever aspect it may be), they rather prefer to drag the rest of the world to their level.

I know people, this is why I am a misanthrope. And while I had a tiny spark of hope that people would not fall for the lies of the Brexit campaign or Trump election campaign, I knew deep inside, that both would win.

[RampageBW1]

I think I shall quote myself from a few (of my own) posts back...

So the administration that cries "fake news" every time CNN throws up an unfavorable story about Trump is now spreading some actual fake news? THE FUCKING HYPOCRISY, IT HURTS!

[Tennis]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...st-attack.html



Whats with all these fake attacks? Are there just so many we cant keep track? Scary world we live in!

Kind of sad how they are spreading lies and fear. This is not what the U.S. is about.

[Dug]

Well Atlanta was savagely murdered this past Sunday

[Cyberowl]

Well Atlanta was savagely murdered this past Sunday

The superbowl was an inside job.

[Eviscero]

Folks, mark me, we are watching a burgeoning would-be authoritarian regime testing the integrity of the democratic institutions designed to confine such aims.

What Trump is doing is called gaslighting. He is challenging your reality and experience by concocting a narrative in which you should be scared, and if you're not it's because you're being lied to.

[HolgerDK]

Meanwhile in Sweden extreme right wing terrorists have burned down over 50 refugee centers, many with people still inside. The greatest threat to the western world is definately the extreme right.

That would have made it in to the news here in Denmark, and none of the newspapers or tv-channels have mentioned it.

[Ornerybear]

i think his brain was still on the superbowl...

[Shadowferal]

Well Atlanta was savagely murdered this past Sunday

It would come as no surprise that this makes a "terrorist attack" that wasn't reported...

[Deleted]

That would have made it in to the news here in Denmark, and none of the newspapers or tv-channels have mentioned it.

http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/%C3...unnit-1.179215

https://www.svd.se/om/brander-pa-flyktingboenden

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel...rtikel=6283376

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vas...den-forra-aret

[Deleted]

Meanwhile in Sweden extreme right wing terrorists have burned down over 50 refugee centers, many with people still inside. The greatest threat to the western world is definately the extreme right.

Doesn't count if it doesn't fit the agenda.

[Belize]

More like "Alt-lanta attacks"
*rimshot*

Boooooo.
You bring shame to your family.

[Bakis]

Meanwhile in Sweden extreme right wing terrorists have burned down over 50 refugee centers, many with people still inside. The greatest threat to the western world is definately the extreme right.

Actually its 100 but noone got harmed since most of the fires are set to centers not up and running.
And no the extreme left is the biggest threat, or do the security police lie in their yearly reports to the government? /s