'Came through Canada': Trump official bizarrely defends lie about New Orleans killer
David Edwards
January 5, 2025
RAW STORY
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Trump 2024 campaign official Corey Lewandowski defended President-elect Donald Trump for falsely suggesting a man killed over a dozen people in New Orleans after crossing an open border into the United States.
During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz pressed Lewandowski on Trump's false claim.
"Why, the day after we all learned that the New Orleans mass murderer was an American citizen and had served in the Army, did Donald Trump put this up on Truth Social? 'This is what happens when you have open borders with weak, ineffective, and virtually non-existent leadership,'" Kurtz Wondered. "What has that got to do with the Bourbon Street killer?"
"Well, Howie, what we know or what we seem to have known about this individual was, yes, he served in the U.S. military, but he also went overseas, I think, to the Middle East, where many think he was radicalized over there and then came through Canada before he came back into the United States," Lewandowski replied deceptively.
"So, you know, we have to make sure that we are vigilant of checking everybody coming to this country and making sure we know where they're coming in from," he added. "Even American citizens, look, they have a right to travel. Of course, they do. But making sure that we understand that we're dealing with the mental health crisis that this person clearly had."
Also read: 'Bring it on': Defiant Raskin responds to GOP threats of retaliation for J6 investigation
While being deployed with the U.S. Army, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar returned from Afghanistan in 2010 with an apparent layover in Canada.
Canada does not appear in the FBI's timeline of the New Orleans attack.
Kurtz did not challenge the Trump official on the suggestion that the killer had been radicalized while out of the country.
David Edwards
January 5, 2025
RAW STORY
Fox News/screen grab
Trump 2024 campaign official Corey Lewandowski defended President-elect Donald Trump for falsely suggesting a man killed over a dozen people in New Orleans after crossing an open border into the United States.
During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz pressed Lewandowski on Trump's false claim.
"Why, the day after we all learned that the New Orleans mass murderer was an American citizen and had served in the Army, did Donald Trump put this up on Truth Social? 'This is what happens when you have open borders with weak, ineffective, and virtually non-existent leadership,'" Kurtz Wondered. "What has that got to do with the Bourbon Street killer?"
"Well, Howie, what we know or what we seem to have known about this individual was, yes, he served in the U.S. military, but he also went overseas, I think, to the Middle East, where many think he was radicalized over there and then came through Canada before he came back into the United States," Lewandowski replied deceptively.
"So, you know, we have to make sure that we are vigilant of checking everybody coming to this country and making sure we know where they're coming in from," he added. "Even American citizens, look, they have a right to travel. Of course, they do. But making sure that we understand that we're dealing with the mental health crisis that this person clearly had."
Also read: 'Bring it on': Defiant Raskin responds to GOP threats of retaliation for J6 investigation
While being deployed with the U.S. Army, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar returned from Afghanistan in 2010 with an apparent layover in Canada.
Canada does not appear in the FBI's timeline of the New Orleans attack.
Kurtz did not challenge the Trump official on the suggestion that the killer had been radicalized while out of the country.
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'We are at war': Republicans said to be using New Orleans attack to boost Trump's agenda
David McAfee
January 5, 2025
David McAfee
January 5, 2025
RAW STORY
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump makes a campaign speech at the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center in Savannah, Georgia, U.S. September 24, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner
Donald Trump is getting an unearned boost for his own political agenda based on a recent terror attack, according to a report.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar was an American citizen and a U.S. Army veteran who rented a pick-up and rammed it into a group of people in New Orleans, killing more than a dozen of them.
Trump seized on an early false report, which was later retracted, that suggested Jabbar might have been an illegal immigrant. The president-elect made multiple posts about border security in the wake of the terrorist act, and never clarified those comments.
Now, Republicans are trying "to exploit New Orleans attack to push through Trump agenda," according to The Guardian, which added that Trump loyalists are making a "baseless link between attack and US border" in order to argue that "cabinet nominees must be urgently ratified."
"Republicans in the US Senate are attempting to exploit the New Year’s Day attack that killed 14 victims in New Orleans, while injuring dozens more, to push through Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet nominations and rocket-charge the incoming president’s anti-immigration agenda – despite the fact that the attacker was a US citizen born and raised in east Texas," the article states. "Several Senate Republicans appeared on Sunday’s political shows to call for an urgent approval of the most contentious of Trump’s cabinet selections who are facing a tough confirmation process. They include Kash Patel, chosen by Trump for FBI director; Pete Hegseth for defense secretary; and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence."
The report goes on to claim GOP lawmakers are arguing that "any delay in confirmation of the controversial cabinet picks would damage US national security."
"Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina who is a leading Trump loyalist, said he would vote for all the president-elect’s nominees," the article states, quoting Graham as saying, "Do them now, do them quick, get them all done... We are under attack here – we are at war."
Read the full piece here.
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump makes a campaign speech at the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center in Savannah, Georgia, U.S. September 24, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner
Donald Trump is getting an unearned boost for his own political agenda based on a recent terror attack, according to a report.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar was an American citizen and a U.S. Army veteran who rented a pick-up and rammed it into a group of people in New Orleans, killing more than a dozen of them.
Trump seized on an early false report, which was later retracted, that suggested Jabbar might have been an illegal immigrant. The president-elect made multiple posts about border security in the wake of the terrorist act, and never clarified those comments.
Now, Republicans are trying "to exploit New Orleans attack to push through Trump agenda," according to The Guardian, which added that Trump loyalists are making a "baseless link between attack and US border" in order to argue that "cabinet nominees must be urgently ratified."
"Republicans in the US Senate are attempting to exploit the New Year’s Day attack that killed 14 victims in New Orleans, while injuring dozens more, to push through Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet nominations and rocket-charge the incoming president’s anti-immigration agenda – despite the fact that the attacker was a US citizen born and raised in east Texas," the article states. "Several Senate Republicans appeared on Sunday’s political shows to call for an urgent approval of the most contentious of Trump’s cabinet selections who are facing a tough confirmation process. They include Kash Patel, chosen by Trump for FBI director; Pete Hegseth for defense secretary; and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence."
The report goes on to claim GOP lawmakers are arguing that "any delay in confirmation of the controversial cabinet picks would damage US national security."
"Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina who is a leading Trump loyalist, said he would vote for all the president-elect’s nominees," the article states, quoting Graham as saying, "Do them now, do them quick, get them all done... We are under attack here – we are at war."
Read the full piece here.
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