Listen to this note:
The tragic death of 14 people and dozens of wounded in New Orleans on January 1st while celebrating the arrival of 2025 was caused by a former US soldier, resident of Houston, Texas; however, President-elect Donald Trump had no qualms about claiming, without any proof, that the attacker was an immigrant. Nothing could be more wrong.
It was 3:15 a.m. in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans, an area known for its festive spirit. Just hours earlier, everyone was hugging each other and shouting Happy New Year! The party continued in the streets, including the famous Bourbon Street.
Suddenly, a white Ford F-150 pickup truck plowed into crowds on Bourbon Street, leaving 14 people dead and 35 injured.
The attacker, Shamsud-Dim Jabbar, a 42-year-old man from Texas, was a US Army veteran who served in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, then worked at the consulting firm Deloitte and in the real estate sector until 2020. He was also an IT specialist in the military for 10 years.
However, for the president-elect of the United States, who will officially take office on January 20, the attack, described as terrorist, was the result of an immigrant, thus blaming the tragedy on the migrant community.
“When I said the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our Country, that statement was constantly refuted by the Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our Country is at a level no one has ever seen before. Our hearts go out to all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!” Donald Trump wrote on the social media site Truth Social moments after the attack.
Yesterday, Trump once again lashed out at immigrants.
“Our country is a mess, the laughing stock of the entire world. This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually non-existent leadership. The Department of Justice, the FBI, and state and local Democrat prosecutors have not done their jobs. They are incompetent and corrupt, and have spent all their waking hours illegally attacking their political opponent, ME, instead of focusing on protecting Americans from the violent SCUM outside and inside that has infiltrated every aspect of our government, and our very Nation.”
While he never denied what he had said earlier, much less apologized for saying the attacker was an immigrant, he wrote that “Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our country. The CIA must get involved, NOW, before it is too late.”
He added that “America is falling apart – A violent erosion of Safety, National Security and Democracy is taking place across our Nation. Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it. See you on January 20th. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Jabbar had no recent criminal record and was not on the FBI's terrorist watch list, yet the agency reported that the suspect posted videos hours before the attack in which he claimed to be "inspired" by the Islamic State.
The Chairman Joseph Biden He said the FBI had informed him that just hours before the attack, Jabbar had posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired by ISIS and expressed a “desire to kill.”
During the investigation, agents found two improvised explosive devices hidden in coolers near the site of the attack, at the intersection of Bourbon and Orleans Street, two blocks away from the terrorist act. President Joe Biden confirmed that Jabbar also placed these devices and planned to detonate them remotely from his truck.
Just hours after the incident, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring seven others. The driver of the vehicle, Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old former Green Beret highly decorated by the U.S. military, shot himself in the head before the explosion, Clark County authorities said Thursday.
Livelsberger was in the Green Berets, the highly trained special forces that work to counter terrorism abroad and train partners. He had served in the Army since 2006, rising through the ranks with a long career of overseas assignments and was deployed twice to Afghanistan. He also served in Ukraine, Tajikistan, Georgia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the Army.
The FBI said it is still investigating whether the two events are related.
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