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Tom Homan, the 30-plus-year immigration enforcement veteran selected to serve as Donald Trump’s “border czar,” has already seized on his boss’ proclivity for bluster and bullshit.
During a Fox News appearance last week to discuss the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas hours later, Homan claimed without evidence that the second incident must be the work of Islamic jihadists.
Why? Without providing a lick of evidence, Homan chalked it up to a “gut feeling.”
“I’ve done this for three and a half decades,” said Homan, a former Border Patrol agent who served as acting director of ICE during the first half of the first Trump administration. “I just think there’s too many similarities, there’s too much coincidence. Down the road, they’re going to show there’s some connection, whether it’s some same network where they got the tools to pull these terrorist attacks off.”
So far, details supplied by actual federal agents investigating the incidents — you know, people who must rely on evidence, not “gut feelings” — suggest Homan pulled his answer straight out of his ass, wet and steaming.
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