Sen. John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, said Wednesday he was skeptical of information from the FBI following the terrorist attack in New Orleans.
Authorities say 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar drove his Ford pickup truck into revelers in New Orleans early Wednesday morning before dying in a shootout with police that left at least 10 people dead. , dozens of people were injured. President Kennedy told Special Report guest host Aisha Husney that he was “straddling” the line between “anger and sadness.” (Related: ‘Did I read that accurately?’: John Kennedy confronts Chancellor over previous anti-Trump remarks in tense exchange)
“There’s a fine line between anger and sadness, and I’m straddling that line right now. If you don’t believe in objective evil, all you have to do is walk 30 or 40 yards to the ground. There are still bodies in there. That’s one of the reasons we postponed the game,” Kennedy said. “I came here for two reasons. One, these are my people and they are guests of my people. Second, I have no resources from anyone in the federal government. I don’t want to hear that.”
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“Right now, the White House, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security are in charge. We’re working with them. We want to give them the time they deserve,” Kennedy continued. “There’s a lot of information out there, some of it’s true. We want to give it a reasonable period of time. But they need to get in the saddle and ride. What happened here? need to be clarified.”
Kennedy, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, later expressed concern that the FBI was not telling him everything.
“We’ll never know what they’re not telling us,” Kennedy said. “But I know how to research very hard to get information. I’m not interested in assigning blame or saying who was right or wrong. I just want to I just want to catch my stupid sons who did this.”
Mr. Husney asked Mr. Kennedy whether other cities could also be targeted.
“I can’t answer that,” Kennedy answered her. “I could, but I won’t.”
In the interview, Kennedy also cited the Secret Service’s failure to thwart an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a July 13 campaign rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
“I sat there and watched a 21-year-old kid outwit the entire United States Secret Service and almost kill a former president who will soon be the current president, and we still don’t have any information. . It won’t happen this time,” Kennedy told Husney.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Las Vegas authorities are also investigating an electric car explosion in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tesla CEO Elon Musk Posted X reported that the company confirmed that the cause of the explosion was a bomb planted in a Tesla Cybertruck.
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