It’s Wednesday…
President Biden’s public schedule for 01/01/2025:
| 8:45 AM Out-of-Town Pool Call Time Out-of-Town Pool |
| 10:25 AM The President and The First Lady depart Wilmington, Delaware en route to Hagerstown, Maryland Out-of-Town Pool |
| 11:05 AM The President and The First Lady arrive in Hagerstown, Maryland Hagerstown Regional Airport Out-of-Town Pool |
| 11:45 AM The President and The First Lady arrive to Camp David Camp David Out-of-Town Pool |
New Years Eve Tweet
From Tuesday…
Here’s to all that lies ahead in 2025. pic.twitter.com/ORS71zSQCD
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 31, 2024
The tweet was sent prior to post time for yesterday’s Biden Bits; that fuckstick Musk has broken twitter so much that even after millions of refreshes this tweet did not appear in President Biden’s feed or in mine…
But sure, let’s put him in charge of helping us determine where our tax dollars go…
Happy New Year, America Tweet
From Wednesday…
Happy New Year, America! pic.twitter.com/N3WQzbxvF1
— President Biden (@POTUS) January 1, 2025
It’s a 10 second GIF–that show the stars twinkling.
Statement on the Incident in New Orleans
From Wednesday…
I have been continually briefed since early this morning regarding the horrific incident that occurred in New Orleans overnight.
— President Biden (@POTUS) January 1, 2025
The FBI is taking the lead in the investigation and is investigating this incident as an act of terrorism. I will continue to receive updates…
Show more =’s I will continue to receive updates throughout the day, and I will have more to say as we have further information to share. My heart goes out to the victims and their families who were simply trying to celebrate the holiday. There is no justification for violence of any kind, and we will not tolerate any attack on any of our nation’s communities.
From the White House…
01/01/2025:
Statement from President Joe Biden
I have been continually briefed since early this morning by federal law enforcement leadership and my homeland security team, including Secretary of Homeland Security Ali Mayorkas, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, White House Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall, and the Mayor of New Orleans regarding the horrific incident that occurred there overnight. The FBI is taking the lead in the investigation and is investigating this incident as an act of terrorism. I am grateful for the brave and swift response of local law enforcement in preventing even greater death and injury. I have directed my team to ensure every resource is available as federal, state, and local law enforcement work assiduously to get to the bottom of what happened as quickly as possible and to ensure that there is no remaining threat of any kind.
I will continue to receive updates throughout the day, and I will have more to say as we have further information to share. In the meantime, my heart goes out to the victims and their families who were simply trying to celebrate the holiday. There is no justification for violence of any kind, and we will not tolerate any attack on any of our nation’s communities.
Statement from President Joe Biden. 01/01/2025.
What I have gathered so far:
A man drove a truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in the famed French Quarter of New Orleans early New Year’s Day. He killed 10 people and injured at least 30 people according to reports.
The driver of the vehicle opened fire on police, shooting two police officers. During an early morning press conference New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said she had no information on the condition of the officers as she hadn’t been to the hospital yet.
She went on to say that the FBI was taking over the investigation.
The FBI posted the following statement:
Statement from the FBI on the situation in New Orleans. pic.twitter.com/B3TskTJyUc
— FBI (@FBI) January 1, 2025
The driver of the truck is dead following the shootout with the cops.
Because this is our new reality Shitshow offered this via his truth social…
Like I said, this is our new normal…
Update:
The FBI has released the following statement:
Today, at approximately 3:15 a.m. CST, an individual drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 10 and injuring dozens of others. After hitting the crowd, he exited the vehicle and fired upon local law enforcement. Law enforcement returned fire and the subject was pronounced deceased at the scene. Two law enforcement officers were injured and transported to a local hospital.
The subject has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas. He was driving a Ford pickup truck, which appears to have been rented, and we are working to confirm how the subject came into possession of the vehicle.
An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations.
Weapons and a potential IED were located in the subject’s vehicle. Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. The FBI’s special agent bomb technicians are working with our law enforcement partners to determine if any of these devices are viable, and they will work to render those devices safe.
The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism. We are aggressively running down all leads to identify any possible associates of the subject.
The FBI has set up a digital tip line, and we ask anyone with information or video of the incident to submit them to www.fbi.gov/bourbonstreetattack or call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
FBI. 01/01/2024.
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