Trump insists he was ‘right about everything’ despite falsely tying New Orleans attack to immigration

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President-elect Donald Trump has insisted that he was “right about everything” after falsely connecting the New Orleans attack to migrants. Trump added that federal agencies such as the Department of Justice and the FBI, as well as “Democrat state and local prosecutors” haven’t done their jobs, going on to call them “incompetent and corrupt.” The president-elect argued that they shouldn’t be focused on attacking him but instead “protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself.” “Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our Country. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump incorrectly linked the New Orleans attack to immigration On Thursday morning, Trump wrote in yet another post on his social media platform that “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.” “That time has come, only worse than ever imagined. MAGA.” Trump incorrectly linked the New Orleans attack to immigration even as authorities said the man responsible was from Texas and a veteran of the U.S. Army.