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Trump Often Tweet About Terro But Said Nothing About Quebec Attack by mfm04622: 10:25pm On Feb 02, 2017
On Sunday night, a gunman opened fire on a mosque in suburban Quebec City, leaving six people dead and many others wounded. Local authorities have since charged 27-year-old Canadian citizen Alexandre Bissonnette with murder and attempted murder for his alleged role in the attack.

In an address to the House of Commons shortly after the incident, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the shooting. "Make no mistake: This was a terrorist attack," Trudeau said. A number of world leaders quickly denounced the attack, with Russian President Vladimir Putin calling it "staggering in its cruelty and cynicism," according to the Kremlin.

But more than three days after the shooting, the response from Canada's southern neighbor has been remarkably muted.
President Donald Trump did call Trudeau on Monday to offer his condolences. While the White House did not offer a statement about the exchange, a spokesman for Trudeau told Canadian reporters that Trump had also "offered to provide any assistance as planned" during the phone call. White House spokesman Sean Spicer later confirmed the call took place when asked at a news briefing on Monday.

On Trump's famed social media accounts, a bullhorn the president often uses to communicate with millions of followers, the attack in Quebec City does not appear to have been mentioned at all.
Trump's personal Twitter account has posted 16 times since the shooting, and the official POTUS account on the same service tweeted or retweeted other messages 30 times. Neither mentioned the Quebec City attack as of Wednesday afternoon. During the same period, a Facebook account linked to Trump posted at least 20 times. It also had not mentioned the shooting by Wednesday. That radio silence is unusual for Trump. The president is a ravenous consumer of media, and even before he entered the White House he was known to respond quickly and forcefully to acts of terror and mass murder abroad.

Just a few hours after an attack in Berlin on Dec. 19 in which a Tunisian-born man drove a truck through a Christmas market, killing 12 people, Trump released a statement that suggested "innocent civilians were murdered in the streets" as they prepared to celebrate the holiday. Trump fired up a tweet in just a few hours, noting that there had been a number of violent acts on the same day.
Re: Trump Often Tweet About Terro But Said Nothing About Quebec Attack by ekrizz(m): 10:26pm On Feb 02, 2017
Please I'll type when I wake-up.
Re: Trump Often Tweet About Terro But Said Nothing About Quebec Attack by ekrizz(m): 10:27pm On Feb 02, 2017
Please I'll type when I wake-up.
Re: Trump Often Tweet About Terro But Said Nothing About Quebec Attack by Danzakidakura(m): 1:18am On Feb 03, 2017
hypocrisy you are quick to accused trump have buhari spoken about southern Kaduna, I remember the presidency said the buhari must not speak on anything .
Re: Trump Often Tweet About Terro But Said Nothing About Quebec Attack by Nobody: 1:07pm On Feb 03, 2017
Well the attacker is a christain terrorist hence his silence about it.
Re: Trump Often Tweet About Terro But Said Nothing About Quebec Attack by SalamRushdie: 1:11pm On Feb 03, 2017
What did the King of Saudi Arabia tweet about the attack ? Muslims need to learn that Trump is out to protect the interest of peace loving groups and people

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