<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Terror and Twitter
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Saturday’s Attack: ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in Britain, in which a van drove into a crowd of pedestrians on London Bridge, killing seven and wounding more than 20. In the aftermath, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May called for stronger counterterrorism measures, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan encouraged citizens to stay calm—prompting an angry response on Twitter from President Trump, who took the opportunity to promote his own message of fear over links between Muslim immigration and terrorism.
As his administration’s lawyers prepare to defend his executive order limiting travel to the with a series of tweets criticizing the Justice Department and identifying the order as “what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!” Legal observers across the political spectrum criticized the tweets, , the husband of Trump’s close adviser Kellyanne Conway, and one of the president’s finalists for the post of solicitor general. Conway emphasized that while he still supports Trump, he sees such impulsive comments as unwise and counterproductive. Many Republican leaders are .
