Trump cited a nonexistent incident in Sweden during his rally on Saturday
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"You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden ... Sweden ... who would believe this? Sweden, they took in large numbers, they are having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what's happening Brussels, you look at what's happening all over the world," Trump said.
No incident occurred in Sweden on Friday night.
However, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran an interview on Friday night's broadcast of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" with documentarian and media personality Ami Horowitz, who presented a clip from a new film documenting alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden. The segment went on extensively about a supposed crime surge in Sweden and its links to immigrant populations.
Crime rates in Sweden have stayed relatively stable, with some fluctuations, over the last decade, according to the 2016 Swedish Crime Survey.
This isn't the first time that there has been a correlation between Trump's statements and programming on cable news, which he is a noted fan of.
In late January, Trump tweeted about gun violence in Chicago shortly after after an "O'Reilly Factor" segment on the same topic, which cited the same statistics and even used the word "carnage," a recent favorite noun of Trump's.
In February, Trump declared in a tweet that he was calling "my own shots" in his administration shortly after MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough asked on air whether Trump's chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, was "calling the shots" in the White House.
Here's Trump talking about Sweden on Saturday:
Here's the clip from "Tucker Carlson Tonight":
Trump, discussing terror, seamlessly mentions incident "last night in Sweden".
- Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) February 19, 2017
There was NO "incident" in Sweden last night. pic.twitter.com/XtcC4PRiNU
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