Maggie Haberman Predicts How Trump Will Use New Orleans Attack For 'Day 1' Pledge
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The New York Times reporter said she's "not surprised" with the direction the president-elect is taking.
Maggie Haberman on Thursday predicted Donald Trump will continue to manipulate the New Orleans truck attack into a narrative that supports his anti-immigration agenda in the coming weeks as he takes office.
“What’s behind it, Pam, is that Trump has a pretty firm anti-immigrant box in which he fits most things, and this is no exception,” the prominent New York Times reporter told CNN’s Pamela Brown on “The Source.”
“They’re tripling down. His communications director, Steven Cheung, sent me a statement ... loosely tying this incident to examples where immigrants have crossed the border who had ISIS ties.”
“They were relatively small in number compared to the number of border crossings there are daily,” she added.
“But you are going to, I suspect, see President-elect Trump continue to push this, because he has said ... that on day one, he is going to seal the border, and I think you are going to see him use this as a reason why.”
The mood is substantially different than it was four years ago, when Trump’s supporters assaulted police and smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Nathan Hochman said Friday he was still reviewing thousands of pages of prison records to “analyze the rehabilitation aspect of resentencing.”
The House minority leader quickly corrected himself, saying he'd "fight hard" for Americans' voting rights.
Trump named Morgan Ortagus to work under his Middle East envoy, but seemed pretty reluctant about it: "Let's see what happens."
Livelsberger wrote in the note that he needed to “cleanse my mind” of the lives lost of people he knew and “the burden of the lives I took,” Livelsberger added.
The president-elect was convicted in May, but his sentencing has been delayed for months.
People also poked fun at the House clerk's description of the former Florida lawmaker as "honorable."
The former Florida congressman won reelection but gave up his seat to accept a nomination that never came.
“I was screaming and finally someone came over to me and they said, 'Listen, I know you’re hurt, but you’re alive. You’re alive,'” he recalled from a hospital.
"We're going to sit on the sidelines and eat our popcorn," the Texas Democrat said.
The New York Times reporter said she's "not surprised" with the direction the president-elect is taking.