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President-Elect Turns Tragedy in NOLA into a Political Opportunity

As 2025 unfolds, we’re going to find that nothing has changed

A moment of levity at the 16th hole during the final LIV Golf Tournament held at the Trump National Golf Club. Some believe that this is when Trump told Tucker Carlson that he plans on making Marjorie Taylor Greene the Governor of “Greene-land” after he buys it from Denmark. (Shutterstock photo2185700449. By L.E. MORMILE)

New Orleans, Louisiana can be a magical place. I visited two times. Once after Hurricane Katrina when I took a tour of the devastation in the ninth ward. And a second time a few years later during Christmas in the hope of seeing the city in a better time.

It was.

But now, this fun-filled, epicurean’s delight and jazz mecca is once again draped in tragedy.

On New Year’s Day, a deranged attacker forced his white pick-up truck around protective police barricades and plowed through packed crowds along Bourbon Street, killing 15 and injuring dozens more.

He was killed in a police shoot-out after wounding two officers.

The man was wearing military fatigues and police fund he had an ISIS flag as well as a small cache of weapons in his vehicle.

President-elect Donald Trump was quick to respond, claiming the attack backed up his assertions that it is immigrants who are causing heinous crimes throughout the country. This is why they need to be deported. This is why they need to be stopped before they ever get here. For once, we had a leader who…