Washington – Trump Calls EgyptAir Crash ‘Another Terrorist Attack’

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    An unidentified woman reacts as she waits outside the Egyptair in-flight service building, where relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo are being held, at Cairo International Airport, Egypt May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany Washington – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is weighing in on the crash of an EgyptAir flight that had been traveling from Paris to Cairo, calling it “yet another terrorist attack.”

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    In a Twitter post Thursday, Trump pointed to the incident, asking “when will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness!”

    The flight, with 66 passengers and crew on board, crashed in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday morning.

    Egyptian, French and Greek officials have launched investigations into the crash but say it is too early to determine whether it was due to a technical error or an act of terrorism.


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    leahle
    leahle
    7 years ago

    An early example of why this complete idiot should never set foot anywhere near the White House. It may be terrorism or it may not, but Trump feels perfectly comfortable making public accusations without a single shred of information. This is anything but presidential, even reasonable. Allies like Canada, the UK and Australia are warning us that there will be dire consequences if this unqualified narcissist becomes president. This is absolutely not acceptable.

    Crazykanoiy
    Crazykanoiy
    7 years ago

    Typical John Barron. Just mouth off about things before you even know what happened. A true leader does not look to stoke fears. A true leader does not minimize the great work of the defence and intelligence community by tweeting “it is time to get serious etc” A true moral leader would express his condolences to the victims before trying to score cheap political points. Never Trump.

    Crazykanoiy
    Crazykanoiy
    7 years ago

    #1 Spot on!
    #2 Total nonsense!

    Crazykanoiy
    Crazykanoiy
    7 years ago

    #2 No reputable source has provided evidence for a terrorist attack. Trump flew off the handle before anyone in Russia or Egypt commented on terrorism. Trump thrives on the fears of ignorant and uneducated people. And no our president did not call it terrorism because he is a nature leader who waits for solid evidence and of course he did not blame Israel for terrorism because despite what you may have come to believe he has never blamed Israel for global jihadi terror.

    7 years ago

    To 1, #3, and #5 -If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. it is extremely unlikely that an Airbus 320 would just fall out of the sky from 37,000, based on a mechanical defect. Egypt Air has been the target before, by terrorists; its security (especially in Sharm al Sheikh), is not the greatest. Paris also has a very poor record of preventing terrorist attacks (i.e. the Shoe Bomber, Richard Reid). Whether you two like it or not, Mr. Donald J. Trump will defeat Ms. Hillary on Nov. 8, 2016. On Jan. 20, 2017, Trump will be sworn in as our 45th President. To paraphrase what President Franklin D. Roosevelt once stated, “With the unbounded determination of our people, we shall gain the inevitable triumph, so help us G-d”.

    Crazykanoiy
    Crazykanoiy
    7 years ago

    Hakohen – Malayasian Air 370 and Air France 447 and GermanWings all crashed mid flight and were not acts of terror. That is why responsible leaders, who know what you do, still wait before declaring a crash to be an act of terror.

    The problem with Trump is that besides being a self absorbed egotistical maniac he also has no idea what he is talking about. A man who does not know the difference between the al quds force and the kurds, who cannot name the leaders of al qaieda, isis, and hizbullah, and has no idea what the nuclear triad is, is unfit to lead this great country.

    7 years ago

    To #7 -Your statement pertaining to the Malaysian 370 flight and the GermanWings flight were inaccurate. Whereas the crashes of those two planes may not have been executed based purely because of political terrorism, they were both deliberately brought down. In the case of the GermanWings pilot, aviation experts who investigated that case, concluded that the pilot suffered from depression, and deliberately crashed the plane. Hence, its crash was not due to mechanical problems. Regarding the Malaysian flight, every credible aviation expert in the world concluded the flight course was deliberately changed by the pilot, and was not due to any mechanical problems. Regarding Air France, that plane did not just fall out of the sky. Rather, the inexperienced pilots flew into bad weather, and did not rely on their instruments to recover from a stall. Regarding Trump, I have no problem with him not knowing the names of certain terrorist leaders. Tell me something, when Ms. Hillary was a Senator, did she know every single budget item on the federal budget, and what the billions of taxpayer dollars were being used for, when she voted to approve such budgets? I think not!

    7 years ago

    To #9 -Thank you for your support. More could be done in the USA, to prevent problems on board aircraft. There is still (15 years after 9/11), no credible program, to keep unauthorized personnel away from parked aircraft, or aircraft which are being serviced. There are still ZERO security guards on every commercial flights in the USA. In 1970, President Nixon ordered that Sky Marshall be stationed on commercial airline flights. However, the airlines had them removed, as they didn’t want them taking the seat of paying passengers. If there were Sky Marshalls on board the four hijacked flights on 9/11/01, those tragedies might have been avoided. Until 9/11/01, the philosophy of the airline companies was to “cooperate” with the hijackers. El Al learned a long time ago, that one cannot cooperate with those scum. In Sept., 1970, there was a shootout on board an El Al flight from Amsterdam to JFK. One hijacker with a gun and a grenade was shot dead by an El Al security guard. The other, who was a woman (Leila Khaled), was captured. The entire world is going to have to wake up to the scourge of global terrorism. Otherwise, there will be more EgyptAir type incidents.