Trump Stokes Hate With False Insinuations About New Orleans Truck Attack Suspect

LOADING ERROR LOADING Donald Trump used the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans to bolster his fearmongering about “criminals” crossing into the U.S. from abroad and did not correct that assertion well after the suspect was identified as a U.S. citizen from Texas. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department.” He said his incoming administration would “fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!” Fox News had reported minutes prior to Trump’s Truth Social post that the vehicle used by the suspect had crossed into Eagle Pass, Texas, from Mexico two days before the attack. Trump did not offer any correction to his statement, and later made an additional post attacking “OPEN BORDERS” and accusing U.S. law enforcement of spending “all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself.” He posted overnight, “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!” He doubled down further on Thursday morning, linking what he called “Biden’s ‘Open Border’s Policy’” to a rise in “Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime.” “That time has come, only worse than ever imagined,” he wrote. Vice President-elect JD Vance shared Trump’s statement on X, condemning the “heartbreaking violence.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene amplified Fox News’ initial inaccurate report about the truck, writing, “Shut the border down!!