Trump border czar Tom Homan has a message for Biden after ‘suicide’ attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas
Donald Trump’s incoming border czar called the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans and the Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas “suicide missions” and blamed Joe Biden.
Tom Homan argued in an interview on Fox News On Thursday morning, the US-targeted attackers were emboldened and shared what he expects to learn about the suspects in both New Orleans and Las Vegas.
“I think they’re both on a suicide mission. “I think in both incidents these men knew they weren’t going home,” he said.
Law enforcement officials have identified the assailant who drove a truck into a crowd on busy Bourbon Street, killing 15 people on New Year’s Day, as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen born in Texas and an Army veteran.
President Biden said the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas is also being investigated for any links to the attack in Louisiana, but officials have said they have not definitively linked the two.
Homan focused on the U.S. border Thursday as investigators conduct a multi-state investigation.
“This is just another danger this country faces because this country has been lax on national security and groups like these have been emboldened,” Homan claimed.
He expects the investigation will show that both were U.S. citizens with prior military experience.
‘I I think you will find that they have both had recent and foreign travels. They were both inspired by it ISIS,” he said.
Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, slammed the Biden administration over the border after the New Orleans attack and Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion
Jabbar was killed in a shootout with police after ramming his rented truck into crowds of people celebrating the start of the new year.
After the attack, law enforcement officials said an ISIS flag was found in the trailer of the rented pickup. He also had potential improvised explosive devices.
Law enforcement officials have not yet revealed whether they know if the attacker or driver of the Cybertruck in Las Vegas has traveled internationally as they search the data.
But Homan on Thursday hit out at the Biden administration over the U.S. border, arguing that the administration had “intentionally” unlocked the border.
He is one of several people who will serve in the Trump administration as well as the president-elect who have used the deadly New Year’s Day attack to call for increased border security.
“It’s an open invitation to those around the world who hate this country,” he said of the current border.
On Thursday morning, Trump’s new national security adviser Mike Waltz called for the closure of the US border in the wake of the attack.
Police have identified the killer as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42 years old, an army veteran who was born in Texas and was inspired by ISIS to carry out the vehicle attack on people celebrating New Year’s Eve on New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street.
The white truck used in the attack can be seen from above. President Joe Biden confirmed that the suspect, 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, was inspired by ISIS to drive through a crowd on Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 on New Year’s Day.
President Biden is meeting with his homeland security team in the White House Situation Room on Thursday.
He addressed the attack on Wednesday evening, saying “no one should jump to conclusions.”
On Thursday, the FBI said they now believe Jabbar is likely a lone wolf terrorist who carried out his massacre of New Orleans revelers without any accomplices.
Law enforcement officials have also identified a suspect in the Tesla Cybertruck explosion Wednesday outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
The Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas after it exploded on Wednesday
They have not publicly released the name, but multiple reports indicate the suspect is 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger, an active duty soldier in the U.S. Army.
The Cybertruck was rented in Colorado Springs, where Livelsberger lived.
Officials are investigating whether the explosion was an act of terrorism. After the explosion, fuel canisters and large fireworks mortars were found in the back of the truck.
The FBI said Thursday that there is no definitive link between the attack in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas.