“With the Biden ‘Open Border’s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime,
Will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” he added in a subsequent post.
“That time has come, only worse than ever imagined.” Despite without specifically citing Fox’s initial story,
Some Republicans seemed to attribute the assault to the border crisis and took use of the occasion to further the GOP’s broader narrative that a weak border compromises national security.
According to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who appeared on Fox News on Thursday, congressional Republicans had been “ringing the alarms” about.
“the idea that dangerous people were coming here in droves and setting up potentially terrorist cells around the country.” Johnson also attempted to paint the attack as a border security failure.