Biden to travel to New Orleans on Monday
President Biden will travel to New Orleans on Monday following the New Years attack that killed 15 people, including the attacker, and injured at least 35 others.
Biden will be joined on the trip by first lady Jill Biden and they will “grieve with the families and community members impacted by the tragic attack on January 1 and meet with officials on the ground,” the White House announced on Friday.
The man who plowed a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar — a U.S. citizen from Texas who was carrying an ISIS extremist group flag on the trailer hitch of the vehicle he rented for the attack. He served in active duty in the U.S. Army.
Biden and the FBI on Thursday said that Jabbar acted alone.
The president met with his Homeland Security team this week and told reporters that there is no evidence of a connection between Jabbar and the man who died in a Cybertruck explosion Wednesday outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, who has been identified as Matthew Alan Livelsberger.
Jabbar planted explosives in nearby locations in New Orleans and had a remote detonator in his vehicle.
Due to the attack, the college football Sugar Bowl in New Orleans was postponed from Wednesday to Thursday. Bourbon Street closed for the investigation but reopened on Thursday for business.
President-elect Trump, after the attack, railed on Truth Social that the border under Biden has led to violent crime and blamed the immigration situation in the U.S. on the incidents in New Orleans, as well as in Las Vegas.
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