Attack in New Orleans: Donald Trump blames “open borders”

Donald Trump denounced this Thursday the “violent vermin” who have “infiltrated” throughout the United States thanks, according to him, to Joe Biden’s “open borders” policy, the day after the deadly car attack -New Orleans ram.

“This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS with weak, ineffective, and virtually non-existent leadership,” the Republican launched on his Truth Social platform on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, affirming that the United States was “the laughing stock of the whole world”.

The alleged perpetrator of the attack which left at least 15 dead in New Orleans was identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a Texas-born US citizen who was allegedly “inspired” by the Islamic State group.

Justice singled out

The future American president, who will return to the White House on January 20, had already made the link the day before – without evidence – between the attack and illegal immigration, affirming that “the criminals who arrive are much worse than the criminals who we have in our country.

He also made the link this Thursday with the various legal cases in which he was prosecuted over the past two years. “The Department of Justice, the FBI and Democratic prosecutors … have spent all their time illegally attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the violent scum of the exterior and interior which has infiltrated all areas of the State and our country itself,” he said.

Biden also targeted

Donald Trump once again castigated the migration policy of his successor and now future predecessor this Thursday morning. “With Biden’s ‘open borders policy,’ I have said numerous times in my rallies and elsewhere that radical Islamist terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so serious in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” he wrote in a new post on Truth Social.

Since his arrival on the American political scene in 2015, Donald Trump has constantly campaigned on the supposed dangers of immigration. After his victory in November, the Republican announced that he wanted to declare a state of national emergency as soon as he took office in January, in order to be able to use the armed forces in his plan to expel around 13 million immigrants in situation irregular.

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