To a Fox News report on Wednesday morning. He was shot and killed by police after running over a gathering of people on New Orleans’s renowned Bourbon Street.
Later on Wednesday, the network withdrew the coverage, but not before Trump and a few of his supporters reiterated it.
The president-elect’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., shared a news item about the false allegation with the caption, “Biden’s parting gift to America — migrant terrorists.”
Shortly after the first portion, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., posted: “TWO DAYS AGO, a terrorist attacker from New Orleans is reported to have crossed the border in Eagle Pass! Shut down the border!
After quoting Trump’s Truth Social post later on Wednesday, Fox News said, “To be clear, the suspect was born in the United States.” Fox clarified his remarks, but Trump reiterated.
His claims Thursday in tweets on Truth Social that the Biden administration’s management of the country’s borders had resulted in “a violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy.”