Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old suspected driver in the New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans, was a U.S. citizen and U.S. Army veteran.

But within hours of the attack — which killed 14 people and is being investigated as an act of terrorism — President-elect Donald Trump, Republican leaders and social media influencers speculated that Jabbar entered the U.S. illegally.

Citing Fox News, social media accounts on Jan. 1 said Jabbar “crossed the U.S.-Mexico border at the Eagle Pass crossing just two days ago” and that there was “blood on the hands of the Biden administration.”

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., shared a 38-second Fox News clip and wrote on X that Jabbar “is said to have come across the border in Eagle Pass TWO DAYS AGO!!! Shut the border down!!!” Donald Trump Jr. said on X that Biden’s “parting gift” to the U.S. was “migrant terrorists.”

The president-elect referenced the attack on Truth Social the morning of Jan. 1, writing that “the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country.”

Around 3 a.m. in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, law enforcement officials say that Jabbar rammed Bourbon Street crowds with a rented Ford F-150 pickup truck before he died in a police shootout.

At least one Fox News broadcast Jan. 1 reported that the truck had crossed the U.S. southern border two days before and was driven by Jabbar, citing “federal...

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