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Trump uses New Orleans attack to push security and border agenda

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Washington | Donald Trump and his Republican allies have blamed Joe Biden for the New Orleans terrorist attack and delivered a final burst of criticism of his policies in the last weeks of his presidency.

The incident, in which at least 14 people died, and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas have also fuelled Republican narratives claiming that crime is spiralling out of control – and that only Trump’s new national security team and a crackdown on immigration will fix it.

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