Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) criticized President Biden’s administration’s dealing with of homeland safety following the lethal New Orleans truck assault, arguing they didn’t prioritize “the right things.”
Johnson mentioned he spoke to Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) and the state’s Lawyer Basic Liz Murrill (R) who he mentioned are “doing a great job” on the bottom. He famous that native officers are “doing all that they can” however argued that “federal partners to do their job.”
“And there is some frustration, as was articulated at the top of the program that I think is very well placed. You know, for four years now, the Biden administration has taken its eye off the ball. I mean, they did not prioritize, in our view, the right things,” Johnson mentioned throughout his Thursday look on Fox Enterprise present “Kudlow.”
“The FBI was off doing all these various and sundry things, putting their emphasis in their investigations and their eye on, you know, conservative Catholics and concerned parents at school board meetings and all these other things, they tried to convince us that the greatest threat to the homeland was racially motivated extremism,” he added. “When we all looked at the wide open border and thought logically that that might lead to terrorist attacks in the future.”
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, is the suspect behind the New Orleans truck rampage on New 12 months’s Day that killed not less than 14 folks and injured dozens extra. Jabbar slammed a Ford pickup truck right into a crowd of individuals on Bourbon Avenue earlier than he was killed by police. He was a U.S. citizen from Texas who served within the Military from 2007 to 2020.
An ISIS flag and put up on social media sympathizing with the U.S.-designated terrorist group was found within the aftermath, in keeping with police.
Johnson made related remarks on Fox Information earlier on Thursday, criticizing the Biden administration for its dealing with of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Whereas on Fox Enterprise, Johnson mentioned “dramatic change” is required.
“And this emphasizes, once again, why this election was so important to the country and we cannot get President Trump here soon enough 18 days away from his inauguration, and his cabinet coming in and we need all of these people that he’s chosen, who are ‘Law and Order types’ who will get control of these agencies, including the FBI and the DOJ to get to work immediately,” he instructed Larry Kudlow.
