Top Ally Twists Himself Into a Knot Backing Trump’s NOLA Attack Theory

A top official with Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign bent over backwards on Fox News trying to justify the President-elect’s public statements on a fatal terror attack that took place on New Year’s Day.

Network host Howard Kurtz asked Corey Lewandowski, who acted as senior adviser to the president-elect’s recent campaign, how exactly the deadly attack carried out by a U.S. citizen had anything to do with the issue of supposedly “open borders”—which Trump repeatedly implied were the cause of the attack.

As Kurtz put it, ‘Why, the day after we all learned that the New Orleans mass murderer was an American citizen and had served in the Army, did Donald Trump put this up on Truth social: ‘This is what happens when you have open borders with weak, ineffective, and virtually non-existent leadership.’”

Kurtz then directly asked Lewandowski: ‘What has that got to do with the Bourbon Street killer?”

Lewandowski shot back, “Well, Howie, what we know or what we seem to have known about this individual was yes, he served in the U.S. military, but he also went overseas, I think, to the Middle East, where many think he was radicalized over there and then came through Canada before he came back into the United States.”

Apparently still spry after this impressive feat of mental acrobatics, he then went on, “So, you know, we have to make sure that we are vigilant of checking everybody coming to this country and making sure we know where they’re coming in from.”

Lewandowski also added, “Even American citizens, look, they have a right to travel. Of course, they do. But making sure that we understand that we’re dealing with the mental health crisis that this person clearly had.”