President-elect Donald Trump seized on a Fox News report about the deadly New Year's Day attack in New Orleans to fearmonger about "criminals" coming in from the southern border— even though the FBI confirmed that the suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was a Texas native who served in the U.S. military for eight years. By Wednesday afternoon, Fox retracted its report that the suspect's vehicle had crossed from Mexico into Texas two days prior to the attack, but as of Thursday morning, Trump did not pull down his Truth Social post.
At least 15 people were killed and over two dozen injured after a rented Ford pickup truck with an ISIS flag plowed through Bourbon Street. Jabbar himself was killed in the subsequent shootout with police.
