Fox Host Forces Trump’s Border Czar to Admit He Has No Proof for Terror Attack Claims
Tom ‘GUT FEELING’ Homan, the former acting director of ICE, said there were “too many similarities” between a pair of apparent New Year’s Day terror attacks, but offered no further evidence.
Trump Insists He Was ‘Right About Everything’, like defeating ISIS, After Wrongly Tying New Orleans Attack to Immigration
“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, shortly after midnight. “This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership.”
Trump reiterated points he made earlier when he was wrong about everything.
In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, the president-elect wrongly tried to tie the truck attack on Bourbon Street—which was carried out by a Texas native and U.S. Army veteran, according to authorities—to migrants, who he has long targeted with hate-filled political rhetoric.
“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,” Trump wrote.
“The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!”
In fact, the vehicle entered the U.S. from Mexico on Nov. 16, driven by a man with no connection to Wednesday’s horrific events.
The FBI identified US-born Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, as the suspect who allegedly drove the truck into a crowd with deliberate intent, killing 15 and injuring dozens more. Authorities say Jabbar was killed after exchanging fire with police.
Officials said Wednesday afternoon there was no evidence tying the attack to the border, though Trump’s inflammatory posts trying to make a link between the two remain up.
He added to his screed at around 9 a.m. Thursday by specifically attacking President Joe Biden. “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,” Trump wrote.
“That time has come, only worse than ever imagined. 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.”
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar was insistent that investigators would find a connection between a pair of apparent New Year’s Day terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas—but also admitted he was basing it all on a “gut feeling.”
Speaking with America Reports host Sandra Smith on Fox News Thursday, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan speculated that the explosion that injured seven in Nevada and the truck attack that killed 14 on New Orleans’ iconic Bourbon Street had “too many similarities”—but admitted that the assessment wasn’t based on any evidence.
“I just feel that there’s going to be something down the road. And I could be wrong—it’s just a gut feeling I have,” Homan said.
However, law enforcement in both Las Vegas and New Orleans have yet to find any connection between the two suspects. Both of them died during the respective incidents.
In a news conference on Thursday, Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill said they tracked the Las Vegas suspect, Matthew Livelsberger, on his journey from Colorado to Nevada by Tesla charging stations.
“We’ve only ever seen him in this vehicle. We are not aware of any other subjects in the particular case,” McMahill said. The sheriff did acknowledge that there were a number of similarities between the suspects in both cases, but said these connections were still under investigation.
A top FBI official also said echoed the sentiment about the suspect in New Orleans, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who they believe acted alone.
“We do not assess, at this point, that anyone else… is involved in this attack except Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the subject you’ve already been briefed on,” FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia said at a press conference in Louisiana.
“We are following up on all potential leads and not ruling everything out. However, At this point there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas.”
During the press conference, Raia also stressed that the investigation was still in its early stages.
During the interview, Smith pressed Homan on whether or not he had any evidence that would override law enforcement’s assessment of both incidents.
“Do you have any other information, have you been privy to any other information, other than what we just directly heard from the police there in Las Vegas?”
“No I don’t, this is a gut feeling,” Homan admitted. “I’ve done this for three and a half decades. I think there’s too many similarities, too much coincidence. I think something down the road, they’re going to show there’s some sort of connection. Whether some same network or where they got the tools to pull these terror attacks off. I just feel that there’s going to be something down the road. And I could be wrong—it’s just a gut feeling I have.”
