(From Eighth District Congressman Jason Smith)Just hours after we officially entered the New Year, an evil terrorist drove a truck down Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of others. After crashing his vehicle, which was flying an ISIS flag, the terrorist was shot and killed by heroic law enforcement officers who didn’t hesitate to rush toward danger to save countless lives. My heart goes out to the loved ones of the victims of this heinous terror attack.
The people of New Orleans are incredibly resilient. They made it through the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and won’t let a deranged lunatic frighten them or change their way of life.
There are many questions that must be answered following the attack. The federal government must work around the clock and do everything it can to get Americans the answers they deserve. And it’s critical that authorities keep President Donald Trump and his team up to date on the latest in the investigation.
For years, Republicans have sounded the alarm over the Biden administration’s failure to focus on going after groups and individuals who actually pose the biggest threat to our safety and security. They claimed the number one threat was so-called “racially motivated extremism.” They went after parents who protested at local school board meetings, painted certain Catholics as violent extremists, and waged a years-long witch hunt against President Trump. Enough is enough. The federal government needs to focus on keeping Americans safe by going after terrorists like the one who carried out the attack in New Orleans.
Since day one, the Biden administration has ignored the terror threat stemming from the southern border. Following Hamas’ October 7 terror attack against Israel, Customs and Border Protection issued a memo warning that terrorists involved in that war could attempt to enter the U.S. from Mexico. In August, a suspected Palestinian terrorist known for using “explosives/firearms” was caught at the southern border. Just weeks earlier, three other suspected Palestinian terrorists were caught at the California border. And according to a report released by the House Judiciary Committee in August, the Biden administration has released into American communities at least 99 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist.
The New Orleans terror attack underscores how critical it is for the Senate to move swiftly to confirm President Trump’s nominees who are in charge of keeping America safe. That means confirming South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary so she can help President Trump secure the border and protect our nation from terror attacks. In addition, the Senate needs to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director so he can clean house at the troubled agency, which has lost the public’s trust and strayed from its mission. And once Tulsi Gabbard has taken the reins as Director of National Intelligence, she’ll immediately get to work investigating actual threats instead of wasting precious time and resources pursuing conspiracy theories like the Russia Collusion hoax.
Trump’s return to the White House cannot come soon enough. I’m incredibly thankful that our next president will do everything he can to protect families. I look forward to working with him and his team to make America safe again.
4 comments:
Hypocrite! How can this individual project himself and trump as protectors of democracy when one is a convicted felon and insurrectionist and the other (smith) a supporter of trump and a denier of both? Trump and smith should be held accountable for their actions and disqualified for public office. Their attempt at whitewashing history will fail.
5:37 drank ALL the koolaid I see, save some for everyone else. So sad that even this many years later people STILL think that the guided tour of the white house was an insurrection lol. A bunch of unarmed people were able to simply enter into one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the country and casually walk around the halls and rooms... Think McFly, Think!
@6:50 What is the cost of the "Murder a Real Police Officer Experience" in these guided tours? I'd like to take my whole family and don't want anyone to miss out on such a memorable opportunity.
11:49 what exactly are you trying to say here? Are you attempting to say that one of the guided tourists murdered a Police officer? Or are you mistaking that with Ashley Babbitt's death... According to Wiki, "within 36 hours, five people died: one was shot by Capitol Police (Ashley, unarmed, attempting to climb through a doorway) another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer who died of natural causes a day after being assaulted by rioters".... there it is you say, rioters killed a police officer! click on his link "Brian Sicknick, died after suffering two strokes the day (natural causes) after he responded to the attack on the U.S. Capitol"... by pepper spray... death by pepper spray, and he wasn't shown to be allergic... one person several months later was charged for assault using pepper spray on Brian that day, charged for assault, not murder... now back to the deaths. FOUR officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months... Does ANY of this strike you as odd? Or are you the type of person that immediately laps up whatever the mainstream media tells you... you don't have to answer.
If it were actually this easy to "insurrect" the WHITE HOUSE a group of armed people would have done it years ago.
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