Here's what happened.
New aviation security measures restricting electronic devices on flights from certain overseas airports were prompted by new threat intelligence obtained earlier this year indicating that ISIS associates were working on smuggling explosives-laden electronics onto U.S.-bound flights, ABC News has learned.
The U.S. government has deemed the threat information “substantiated” and “credible,” according to one source familiar with the intelligence.
Sources said that the airports – in eight Middle Eastern and African countries – affected by the restrictions were not directly named in the most recent threat intelligence gathered by authorities, but determined through intelligence analysis paired with other government information.
The UK quickly followed with its own ban. And with good reason.
In February 2016, the al-Qaida-affiliated Islamist terror group al-Shabab detonated a laptop aboard a flight from Somalia to Djibouti, an incident that killed the passenger who set it off and blew a hole in the aircraft but failed to down the plane. One month later, another laptop bomb exploded in an airport in central Somalia, wounding six people.
But to no one's surprise, the social justice media sites began screaming like stuck pigs.
Trump's laptop travel restriction is a confusing mess - The Verge
Trump's Misguided, Xenophobic Laptop Ban Is a Giant Middle - Finger to Business Travelers - Slate Magazine
Trump's Laptop Airplane Ban Looks Historically Half-Baked, But Hides Deeper Motives - UPROXX
The US is imposing a "laptop ban" on flights from 10 airports in majority-Muslim countries - Vox
And of course the pro-terrorist site The Intercept had to come up with a crazy conspiracy theory.
Donald Trump's Muslim Laptop Ban Could Be a Protectionist Scheme - The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald will be on RT and Al Aqsa to discuss it shortly, I'm sure. And there's the Washington/Amazon post. Once upon a time it was a serious newspaper. Now it's a social justice blog.
Trump won't allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here's why. - Washington Post
What is the logic behind Trump's new 'electronics ban'? People are stumped.- Washington Post
It's a mystery. Since we know Islamic terrorism doesn't exist.