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 15 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.’
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 20 January, will be the target of a major co-ordinated attack designed to derail his leadership before it begins.
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