Law enforcement officials have said that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the assailant in the vehicular attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans, was a U.S. native.

Though a U.S. citizen killed revelers on Bourbon Street, experts say the incoming president sees advantages in blaming immigrants and Islam for New Year's Day attack.

The president-elect's initial response to the attack was cringeworthy — and then the Republican decided to double down on discredited misinformation.

The president-elect said on social media that he was right about fearing criminals on the other side of the border. Officials later identified the suspect as a U.S.-born citizen and Army veteran.

Donald Trump and prominent Republicans have been working to blame the New Orleans truck attack that killed 15 people on New Year's Eve on the border.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday decried the New Orleans violence that killed at least 15 people and injured more than 30. “Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones,

The suspected driver in the New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans was a U.S. citizen and U.S. Army veteran. But within hours of the deadly attack, President-elect Donald Trump, Republican leaders and social media influencers speculated that he had entered the U.

In the immediate aftermath of the New Year’s truck attack that killed 14 people and injured dozens in New Orleans, President-elect Donald Trump baselessly—and, it turns out, falsely— suggested that the Biden administration’s immigration policies were to blame.