Terror in New Orleans is a reminder that Team Biden took the wrong ‘threats’ seriously

The heinous terrorist act in New Orleans early on New Year’s Day highlights the Biden administration’s staggering failure to keep America safe and deter radical Islamic terrorism. By allowing the focus to lapse on this persistent threat to America’s national security and instead wasting time and resources attacking political opponents, parents who attend school board meetings, and Catholics, the Biden team left America vulnerable. . It will be up to the incoming Trump administration to clean up this mess and keep Americans safe.

In January 2017, when we in the Trump administration took office, the Islamic State (ISIS) controlled a huge part of Syria and was expanding his vision of radical Islam on a global scale. He had beheaded two Americans during the Obama-Biden administration.

It took a serious president to dismantle that caliphate together with partners and allies, as well as to overthrow the radical islamic terrorism threat at home and abroad. By the end of our term, we had done just that: the ISIS caliphate no longer existed and the threat of radical Islamic terrorism within our homeland was greatly reduced.

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Over the past four years, we have witnessed a complete abdication of this responsibility in the White House that has resulted in a dangerous resurgence of this threat. Instead of combating radical Islamic terrorism at home and abroad, Biden downplayed this threat in favor of conjured political threats and allowed real threats to metastasize and culminate in the New Orleans attack.

A memorial to those killed in the New Year’s Eve attack is left on Bourbon Street following the reopening of the street in New Orleans, Louisiana, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured after a man rammed his car into the crowd. of New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street on Wednesday. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)

His administration allowed Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban, allowed Iran and its proxies to prosper and carry out the October 7 massacre, and failed to address the growing threat of radical Islamic terrorism here at home. This strengthened our enemies and weakened the United States.

Worse, this administration allowed political ideology to undermine America’s fundamental national security imperatives. For four years, we have seen this administration call out “far-right” groups and even supporters of President-elect Donald Trump the greatest threat to American democracy, while barely lifting a finger as protesters waved Hamas and ISIS flags in the streets of cities and college campuses following the horrific October 7 attacks.

For four years, our open borders have allowed extremists, with ties to groups like ISIS, to cross into our country unrestricted, bolstering their ability to plan and carry out attacks and enhancing their radicalization efforts. By treating counterterrorism as another weapon or political tool to promote woke ideology, Team Biden left a gap in our national security apparatus that actors like ISIS have eagerly exploited.

After the attack in New Orleans, unfortunately we have seen more lack of seriousness. First, the FBI said the suspect did not act alone, only to now change course and say he did act alone. Let’s be clear: the idea that this individual acted alone is absurd on its face. He may have carried out this specific attack alone, but these deplorable acts never occur in a vacuum.

The very idea of ​​a “lone wolf” is fiction. Whether or not his accomplices helped him on the night of the attack, or even in its planning, this terrorist was part of a cabal of Islamists who have radicalized to attack the United States, and no one stopped him.

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For the FBI to now say it acted alone demonstrates the continued influence of a twisted political agenda or a complete misunderstanding of the depth and complexity of ISIS operations inside the United States. All necessary steps must be taken to discern how and where this individual was radicalized in order to anticipate or prevent the next attack.

Correcting these gaps in our national security is urgent and must be a priority for the incoming Trump administration. In response to the growing threat of terrorism, the task of the American people is not to fundamentally alter the way they live their lives. This would be a victory for the Islamists.

For four years, our open borders have allowed extremists, with ties to groups like ISIS, to cross into our country unrestricted, bolstering their ability to plan and carry out attacks and enhancing their radicalization efforts.

Rather, the task is for the responsible agencies – the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, as well as state and local law enforcement – ​​to recognize the risk posed by radical Islamic terrorism and take appropriate measures to reduce and eliminate it.

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Last May, the FBI tweeted that diversity was one of the agency’s top priorities; The safety of all Americans should be your top priority. Fortunately, there couldn’t be a better leader entering the White House to clean up the mess created by President Joe Biden. Having served as CIA Director and President Trump’s Secretary of State, I know he will take every step necessary to eliminate this threat to the American people within our borders and globally, just as we did during his first term.

Most importantly, it will shift the focus of our law enforcement and national security apparatus away from domestic political opponents, DEI, and wokeness to where it belongs: on taking down despicable individuals who wish to harm innocent Americans.

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