Despite the fact that the perpetrator was a U.S. citizen, President Joe Biden’s border policies have been criticized by President-elect Donald Trump and his congressional allies for the deadly truck attack in New Orleans.
Democrats and the fake news media consistently denied my claim that the criminals entering our country are far worse than those already there, but it turned out to be accurate. Trump made this claim in a post on Truth Social as news of the Wednesday morning ramming attack was still leaking out.
He stated that the amount of crime in our nation is at an unprecedented level. Our thoughts and prayers are with the courageous officers of the New Orleans Police Department as well as all of the innocent victims and their families.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran from Texas, was later confirmed by officials as the assailant.
The driver had crossed the border from Mexico earlier this week, according to a Fox News story Wednesday morning. He was shot and killed by police after running over a gathering of people on New Orleans’s famed Bourbon Street.Later on Wednesday, the network withdrew the coverage, but not before Trump and a few of his supporters echoed it.
The president-elect’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., shared a news item about the false allegation with the caption, “Biden’s parting gift to America – migrant terrorists.”
Soon after the first segment, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., posted: According to reports, a terrorist from New Orleans crossed the border near Eagle Pass TWO DAYS AGO! Close the border!
After quoting Trump’s Truth Social post later on Wednesday, Fox News added, “To be clear, the suspect was born in the United States.”
In spite of Fox’s explanations, Trump reiterated his remarks on Thursday in Truth Social, claiming that the Biden administration’s management of the country’s borders had resulted in “a violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy.”
“With the Biden ‘Open Border s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” he wrote in another post. “That time has come, only worse than ever imagined.”
Other Republicans didn t directly refer to Fox s original report but still seemed to blame the situation at the border for the attack and used the opportunity to push the larger GOP platform of a vulnerable border harming national security.
According to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who appeared on Fox News on Thursday, congressional Republicans had been “ringing the alarms” about “the idea that dangerous people were coming here in droves and setting up potentially terrorist cells around the country.” Johnson also attempted to paint the attack as a border security failure.
Following pictures of the deceased suspect on Wednesday, Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., tweeted that the country’s immigration system, the “open border,” and Congress’s inaction on the matter “have created the perfect storm to endanger Americans.”
Similarly, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., shared on X a video of an interview he did Wednesday about the terror attack and wrote, “We must secure the border & guarantee our local enforcement is empowered to enforce the law and protect the American people from these cowards!”
Less than two out of every 10,000 migrants who attempted to cross the border in fiscal year 2024, or roughly 0.014% of all migrants, were on the terrorist blacklist, according to a previous report from NBC News this year. Just over 1,700 people have attempted to cross under the Biden presidency. It was 1,400 under the Trump administration.
On Thursday, a Trump spokesman defended the president-elect’s comments about the attack in New Orleans.
President Trump rightfully highlighted that criminals crossing the border have committed some of the most heinous crimes this country has witnessed in its history,” Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, said in a statement. “It is also true that radical Islamic terrorism and its warped ideology have crossed into our country and infected those looking to spread hate and violence.
Requests for comment were not immediately answered by the offices of Greene, Johnson, Gimenez, and Crane. A request for comment was not immediately answered by Fox News either.
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