01/03/2025
Wasington, Jan. 3: US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday criticised what he called “weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership” in the United States. His comments followed a deadly car attack in New Orleans.
Although Trump did not directly mention the incident in his post, he used the incidents to reignite his attacks on Democrats, “open borders,” and institutions like the FBI, which he has vowed to overhaul once he returns to office.
Trump in an early morning social media post labelled the country over which he is about to preside after his inauguration in 18 days a “disaster” and a “laughing stock.”
He blamed the attack on the negligence of law enforcement agencies that he said had been too busy conducting criminal investigations into him, something he has long derided as political witch-hunt.
He also repeated an assertion – first made on Wednesday in its immediate aftermath – that the attack proved the need for an immigration crackdown, despite the fact that the suspect was born and bred in the US.
“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership.”
He went on to renew his rhetorical assaults on the FBI, the Department of Justice (DoJ) and other agencies, calling on the CIA to get involved even though its mission is to deal with foreign rather than domestic intelligence.
“The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job,” Trump wrote. “They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself.
“The USA is breaking down – A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation. Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it.”
Trump’s comments followed a devastating car attack in New Orleans, where 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, a Texas-based US Army veteran, drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street. The attack resulted in the tragic loss of at least 15 lives and left many others injured, marking it as one of the deadliest incidents in recent US history.-Agencies
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