Donald Trump and his Republican allies have seized on the New Orleans terrorist attack to blame Joe Biden and deliver a final burst of criticism of his policies in the last weeks of his presidency.
The incident, in which at least 15 people died, and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas have also fuelled Republican narratives claiming that crime is spiralling out of control — and that only Trump’s new national security team and a crackdown on immigration will fix it.
“With the Biden ‘Open Border’s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe. That time has come, only worse than ever imagined,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday morning.