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Donald Trump is an unconventional politician and he responds to terror attacks unconventionally. When bad things happen, he often goes on the offensive.
“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” he posted on his Truth Social media account last night, after fifteen people were killed in the New Year’s Day terrorist truck attack in New Orleans. “This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership.”
Trump was the target of not one but two near-miss assassination attempts in 2024
There is no evidence yet linking the New Orleans incident with a car explosion on the same day in Las Vegas. Yet given that Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, the New Orleans terrorist, a former US army staff sergeant, appears to have been inspired by ISIS, and the other explosion took place outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, the concern now is that Trump’s second inauguration, on January 20, will be the target of a major co-ordinated attack designed to derail his leadership before it begins.
“CIA must get involved, NOW, before it is too late,” added Trump. “The USA is breaking down — A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation. Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it. See you on January 20th. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump himself, of course, was the target of not one but two near-miss assassination attempts in 2024 and understandably feels strongly about security failures on the American homeland. At one level, he’s seizing the political opportunity of an atrocity to bash the Democrats ahead of his return to the White House; and of course there were terror incidents on the American homeland under his first administration.
But he’s also sincerely concerned that security authorities will fail once more to stop a serious terror incident from spoiling what should be his triumphant party in Washington later this month. If that were to happen, Trump’s conspiracy-sensing anger towards the Democrats and the authorities would echo across America and the world.
