London Mayor Sadiq Khan's office called President Trump's comments "bigoted," after the president appeared to make the false claim that London wants to "go to sharia law" and was a city that had "changed" under the mayor's leadership.

"I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor — terrible, terrible mayor — and it's been so changed, so changed," Mr. Trump said during his address to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. "Now they want to go to sharia law ... Both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."

While Mr. Trump used the word "they" without clarifying if he meant Khan and London, his comments echoed long running far-right conspiracy theories online linking Khan, who is the first Muslim to be elected

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