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.

Following the New Orleans attack, Donald Trump and Republicans used the tragedy to lie about the suspect and connect him to border security and migrants.

The president-elect shared anti-immigrant misinformation about a minute after an inaccurate report from Fox News.

President-elect Trump blamed the situation at the southern border for the recent attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, railing against President Biden for his immigration policies as both cases

Plus, the Senate announces key committee assignments and the DNC leadership race gets a big endorsement in this week’s 3-Minute Read from Jen Psaki.

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.

Trump 2024 senior official Corey Lewandowski joins 'Mediabuzz' to discuss the radicalization of the alleged New Orleans attacker and the president-elect's criticism of a New York judge over sentencing connected to his criminal case.