President-elect Donald Trump blamed President Joe Biden’s “open border” policy for exposing the United States to violent crime and ISIS threats after several possible terrorism attacks left the country reeling on New Year’s Day.
Trump said Thursday morning that Biden, whom he described as “the worst president in the history of America,” has set policies that have fueled a rise of “Radical Islamic Terrorism” and other atrocities in the U.S.
“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,” the president-elect said in a statement to Truth Social.
“That time has come, only worse than ever imagined,” he continued. “Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER. What he and his group of Election Interfering “thugs” have done to our Country will not soon be forgotten! MAGA.”
In lieu of the two deadly attacks on Wednesday in New Orleans and Las Vegas that left 15 dead and dozens injured, Trump’s new border czar, Tom Homan, also blamed the Biden administration’s “weak stance” on national security for the incidents.
Although law enforcement has identified the alleged New Orleans attacker as a U.S. citizen, and the Las Vegas suspect appears to hail from Colorado, Homan said that while Biden “bragged” that U.S. citizens committed both incidents, “he shouldn’t hang his hat on that.”
Like Trump, Homan warned that the two incidents were not isolated attacks but rather indicators of broader threats of increasing violent crime, backing up his argument by pointing to the rising number of people on the U.S. terrorist watchlist and eight men from Tajikistan with possible ties to ISIS arrested by authorities in June after crossing the border illegally.
“They relax the sanctions against Iran, give them veins of more dollars they can fund terrorism,” Homan said of the Biden administration during a Fox News interview. “You see marches down New York City, the streets in New York City, on the college campuses, of people carrying ISIS flags and asking for the death of America. And we allow this stuff to happen. This administration took a weak stance on this stuff.”
As investigators continued to investigate possible relations between the New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks, Homan also suggested they were connected, saying, “I think you’re gonna see ISIS affiliation on both of them.”
“Nothing’s going to change tomorrow. This administration has not taken action against the criminal cartels and terrorist organizations or try and secure our southern border. You can’t have national security if you don’t have border security. I don’t understand why they don’t get that. It’s common sense,” he said.
The comments from the president-elect and his border czar follow an incident at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas that wounded seven. Authorities are investigating the New Year’s Day incident, during which the suspect was killed, as a possible terrorist attack. Media outlets have reported Matthew Livelsberger, an army veteran from Colorado, was behind the attack, although police have not yet confirmed the suspect’s identity.
In another New Orleans terrorist attack on Wednesday, fifteen people were killed and dozens injured. The prime suspect has been identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran from Texas. President Joe Biden said following the attack that Jabbar was “inspired by” ISIS, an extremist Middle Eastern Islamic terrorist group.
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Hours before he carried out the attack, Jabbar posted videos to social media saying he wanted to kill his family and join ISIS. After the incident, authorities found an ISIS flag in the suspect’s truck.
Authorities are investigating possible connections between the deadly incidents. Officials have said Livelsberger and Jabbar rented the vehicles they used to carry out the attacks from the same carsharing company, Turo. The two men allegedly served at the same military base–Fort Bragg– according to a local news outlet.