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MAGA Senator Decides Terror Presser Is Perfect Time for Weird Joke

Apparently nothing is above politics for Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, who chose a terrorism press conference for the deaths of 15 people as an opportune platform to make some jabs at his political foes.

The MAGA lawmaker took a swipe at the media during a Wednesday press conference on the New Year’s Eve attack in New Orleans, quickly reminding Louisianians—in the midst of a national tragedy—of the news media’s assumed political bent. While identifying which outlets the attending reporters were with, Kennedy referred to NBC’s placement ā€œon the rightā€ of the podium.

ā€œThat’s an unusual position,ā€ Kennedy said.

When the reporter said they didn’t understand the comment, Kennedy added, ā€œYou wouldn’t.ā€

Kennedy’s comments, which detracted from local and federal authorities sharing details on the attack, were roundly criticized as tone-deaf. The ongoing investigation is rushing to identify the perpetrators of a multipronged domestic terrorism scheme that involved a pickup truck mowing down a crowd of people on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street. But the off-color remarks didn’t just frustrate members of the media working to share developments in the case—Kennedy’s comments also angered some on the right, including the X account Republicans Against Trump, which lambasted the senator as a ā€œdisgrace.ā€

ā€œFor these asses it’s only and always about the politics,ā€ wrote former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. ā€œAn attack on the citizens of his community and Sen. Kennedy think it’s cute to take a political jab at the press.ā€

Early on Thursday, Donald Trump pushed an obviously incorrect theory that the attack was the result of the nation’s ā€œopen bordersā€ policy. The FBI’s suspect for the attack, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is a U.S. citizen born in Texas.


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