As it turns out, the suspect, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, was a U.S. citizen from Texas and a veteran of the U.S. Army. Donald Trump hasn’t even been sworn into office yet, and already he’s giving us a glimpse at what we’re in for over the next four years: lies, unmitigated xenophobia and a glaring lack of media literacy that would make anything to come out of the media look like “fake news” to anyone whose critical thinking capacity and ability to discern factual information are virtually non-existent. (So, Trump and your average Trump supporter.) Just hours after a man drove a pickup truck into New Year’s Eve celebrators in New Orleans, killing 10 people and injuring many more, Trump took to social media to let everyone know the news vindicated claims he made during his campaign, the entirety of which he spent damning migrants (who he believes have murderous violence embedded in their “genes”) and bloviating about a rise in violent crime in America that, according to all reputable crime databases, does not exist. (More on that in a few.) (…) Yeah — what Trump should have done was wait for the investigation to yield any real information on the suspect at all before jumping to the assumption that a non-white terrorist must be a criminal who came into the country illegally. As it turns out, the suspect, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, who was killed during a shoot-out with police following the attack, was a U.S. citizen from Texas, and a veteran of the U.S. Army. So, regardless of what Jabbar’s ideology was or what the motivation was behind his heinous attack, we know that he was a naturally-born citizen who was radicalized right here in the U.S. of A. He was a home-grown terrorist much like the mob of MAGA supporters who tried to overthrow the government on Trump’s behalf on Jan. 6 — or better yet — much like Payton Gendron, the white supremacist who gunned down 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, and left a manifesto that showed he is a believer of the same white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that Trump and many of his supporters, including GOP officials, also adhere to.
via newsone: Trump Wrongly Suggests New Orleans Attacker Was Immigrant Amid More Lies About The Crime Rate