Trump Says He Has Ordered Homeland Security to ‘Step Up Our Already Extreme Vetting Program’ After NYC Attack

‘Being Politically Correct Is Fine, but Not for This!’ Trump Says

President Donald Trump late Tuesday night claims he has ordered the Dept. of Homeland Security to “step up” his “Extreme Vetting Program,” hours after a 29-year old man allegedly drove a rented truck down a Manhattan bike path in an act of terror, killing eight people and injuring 11 others. 

The president made his claim on Twitter and offered no details. The suspect came to the U.S. from the former Soviet Russia nation of Uzbekistan – a country not on Trump’s travel ban list – in 2010.

Trump’s claim seems to be all talk.

On Twitter, many were quick to challenge Trump:

Others were only too happy to school the president on his grasp of the details of the attack:

And Rachel Maddow did a segment on Uzbekistan:

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