The original news report claimed the truck crossed the U.S.-Mexico border just days before the attack.
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On Jan. 1, 2025, after a man rammed a pickup into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing more than a dozen people, a rumor about his origins spread. According to a Fox News report, law enforcement said the man drove the truck into the U.S. from the Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, just days before the attack.
The claim spread across social media and was amplified by Texas lawmakers, conservative social media influencers and Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, who wrote on X, “New Orleans terrorist attacker is said to have come across the border in Eagle Pass TWO DAYS AGO!!! Shut the border down!!! Who did our government bomb lately that is taking it out on innocent Americans?”
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump also spread the rumor on his social media website, TruthSocial, suggesting …
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