Trump refers to general who mythically shot Muslims with pigs’ blood-dipped bullets after Barcelona attack

‘Donald Trump posted a tweet in the immediate aftermath of the Barcelona attack that suggested people should study a famed US general who was said – incorrectly – to have suppressed Muslim militants by shooting them with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood.
Mr Trump initially posted a message of support in which he condemned the attacks. Then he said people should look at the history of an early 20th Century general, John Pershing. He appeared to be referring to a widely debunked story that Pershing overcame militant Muslims in the Philippines by killing them and burying their bodies with pigs.
Another part of the legend is that he killed them with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood.’
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