Donald Trump and the far right echo chamber aren’t letting the facts that the two perpetrators in the New Year’s Day attacks are U.S. Army guys – one of them a big Trump fan – get in the way of a good story.
Trump not only hasn’t backed off his dumb comment tying the attacks to immigration policy from early in the news cycle on Wednesday – “When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true,” the president-elect wrote on his worthless fake social media site – he doubled down on the nonsense on Thursday.
“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership,” he wrote, in his best third-grade prose.
ICYMI
- Man who blew up cybertruck in Las Vegas was active-duty Special Forces soldier
- Texas man ID’d in deadly New Year’s attack in New Orleans that kills 15
Trump sycophants are doing their best to use the attacks carried out by U.S. Army guys to gem up the racial and ethnic hate, even as the perpetrator of the attack in Las Vegas, in front of a hotel with Trump’s name on it, was a white guy described by family as a “Rambo-type” MAGA warrior.
“He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years. It wasn’t just one tour of duty,” said Dean Livelsberger, the uncle of Matthew Livelsberger, who blew up a rented Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Vegas hotel on Wednesday.
Matthew Livelsberger, 37, was an active-duty U.S. Army Green Beret with 19 years in the military, including multiple tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Livelsberger died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head before the cybertruck blew up, according to authorities.
The perpetrator in the deadly attack in New Orleans that killed 15 people, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, of Houston, was a 10-year U.S. Army veteran with a college degree in computer information systems.
Jabbar drove a rented truck down a crowded French Quarter street in the early hours of New Year’s Day, mowing down dozens of people before crashing into a construction crane, then engaging police in a shootout in which he was shot and killed.
Jabbar is, yes, he’s Black, and Muslim, and he pledged allegiance to ISIS, a sort of forgotten military and political group whose activities outside of its base of operations in the Middle East are limited to trying to goad lone-wolf sympathizers like Jabbar to carry out low-tech terror attacks.
It’s virtually impossible to stop every lone wolf, but then, try telling that to the likes of Mike Johnson, who needs Trump’s support to continue as the Speaker of the House.
“For four years now, the Biden administration has taken its eye off the ball,” Johnson said in a TV interview on Thursday. “They did not prioritize, in our view, the right things. They tried to convince us the greatest threat to the homeland was racially motivated extremism when we all looked at the wide open border and thought logically that might lead to terrorist attacks in the future.”
Problem with the two New Year’s incidents being: you could have had an airtight border, and two American-born guys with U.S. Army training and decades of experience and who live here were going to be able to do what they did anyway.
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Chris Graham
