AS COUNTY councillor David Harrison writes [Letters, February 20] President Trump has gone much further than Barack Obama before him in barring entry to the USA from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan, and the Yemen.

My letter of February 15 said only that Obama, as well as Trump, had denied entry to travellers from those seven countries. I know now that although that was the truth, it was not the whole truth. Trump is trying at the moment to ban all travellers from those Muslim countries, not just some travellers, as Obama did.

Consequently the invitation to President Trump to make a state visit to Britain renders David Harrison apoplectic with outrage. But did he write to the Echo in outrage at the state visits of gruesome and bloodsoaked tyrants presiding over regimes of torture and terror - Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Bashar el-Assad of Syria and Xi Jinping of China among them?

David Harrison shows that he has tunnel vision by his focus on President Donald John Trump as his target for condemnation on moral grounds.

Ralph Prothero