Public Notice: No, Trump wasn't "confused" about the New Orleans attack

[Dennis Donovan]

Public Notice - No, Trump wasn't "confused" about the New Orleans attack

We're way past giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Noah Berlatsky
Jan 06, 2025

On New Year’s Day, a driver intentionally steered a truck into a crowd in New Orleans, killing 14 people. Trump and other MAGA leaders, echoing a false Fox News report, quickly rushed to blame President Biden’s supposedly lax security at the border.

“The suspect drove a truck with a Texas license plate that came through Eagle Pass, Texas, two days ago,” a Fox News anchor said, with the report going on to suggest that the suspect may have been an undocumented immigrant. (Watch below — video via the excellent Julet Jeske of Decoding Fox News.)

Link to tweet

Trump got into the act on Truth Social, posting minutes after Fox’s erroneous report aired that “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.”



There was only one problem. The suspect in the attack, a 42-year-old Texas resident named Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is not an immigrant. He was a US citizen and army veteran.

Fox quickly walked back its faulty reporting, but not before it became a story in itself. CNN’s piece about how Fox got it wrong explained Trump spreading false information by suggesting he was “confused” by what he saw on TV.



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[Lonestarblue]

1. We can expect nothing but lies from our government for the next four years.

No one will be able to trust any government data, and heaven help us if we have another pandemic.

[Bluetus]

2. Not just lies in genera, but THIS lie

No matter what happens, Trump and his flying monkeys will be out there in nanoseconds with "This happened because Democrats love open borders."

This is the problem with Dems not taking an AFFIRMATIVE position on immigration -- or anything else, for that matter. This gives the Republicans to opportunity to define us on their terms.

It is not good enough to just whine about Trump being nad. We need to say what we are FOR. What is our position on immigration" If we can't state that as plainly as Trump says "Dems are for open borders", then we lose.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Just another conspiracy theory.

Conspiracy theory. Just another one

The NOLA guy was just another of Donald's Muslims who helped put Donald in the WH.

Add it to the list.