An MSNBC host claims that US military personnel are bigger threats than illegal aliens

Lawrence O’Donnell leveraged the attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas to push the idea that Americans, specifically military personnel, are more dangerous than illegal aliens. O’Donnell dismisses, as Donald Trump’s “imagination”, the criminals illegally crossing into the United States. O’Donnell pointed to the casualties that resulted from Timothy McVeigh’s attack to help forward his argument that military personnel are more dangerous than illegal aliens.

From Fox News:

“The simple fact is, this country has suffered more deadly terrorism at the hands of American-born citizens who are veterans of the United States military than people who have crossed into this country at the southern border,” O’Donnell said. “It is very clear from the evidence that if you want to worry about terrorism in this country, the United States Army is a much bigger problem than the southern border.”

Early on New Year’s Day, chaos broke out on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The suspect, later identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is accused of ramming a truck into crowds in the city’s popular French Quarter, killing at least 15 and injuring dozens of others. Jabbar, who was armed with a Glock and a .308 rifle, was killed after opening fire on police.

O’Donnell used examples of military veterans, including Timothy McVeigh, the domestic terrorist behind the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, to argue that American veterans have perpetuated more violence than immigrants have in U.S. history.

“Timothy McVeigh parked a truck outside that building loaded with explosives in an act of homegrown American terrorism,” O’Donnell said. “Timothy McVeigh’s hatred of the American government was not tamed in any way by his service in the American military. So, too, with America’s latest terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, with an American military veteran driving a pickup truck through a crowd to murder 14 people.”

“But when Donald Trump sees the type of terrorist attack that occurred in New Orleans, he doesn’t remember Timothy McVeigh and, instead, he blames the criminals that he imagines are crossing the southern border,” the MSNBC host continued.

Additional Reading:

Clark, J. (2025, January 3). MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell claims US military personnel pose greater threat than illegal immigrants. Fox News. Link.

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