Tom Homan warns that US national security is ‘at grave risk’ after New Orleans attack, Tesla Cybertruck explosion

President-elect Donald Trump incoming “car czar” Tom Homan has issued a warning about the state of US national security following the terrorist attack in New Orleans and the Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.

In an interview with “America Reports” on Thursday, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said The United States is in imminent danger because the southern border remains vulnerable to national security.

“We’re not out of the woods,” Homan said. “This country is in grave danger. We need to secure that border, and despite what happened in the last two days in Las Vegas and New Orleans, this administration is not stopping. They are still letting thousands of people in every week … without proper vetting.”

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“We have a record number of known escapees. Over 2 million people entered this country. We don’t know who they are, where they came from, or what their purpose was for coming to this country,” he continued.

Homan said he looks forward to President-elect Donald Trump resuming “the power” to “secure this border and protect our national security.”

His warning came after the suspect was identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar with an ISIS flag cut into dozens at a New Year’s Eve parade on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 30. He was killed in a shootout with police.

Jabbar, a native American born in Texas, previously served in the US Army. Jabbar said in Facebook videos before the attack that he joined ISIS before the summer and made a will and testament, according to the FBI.

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Authorities were investigating a potential military connection between Jabbar and the Las Vegas suspect, identified by police to The Associated Press as Matthew Livelsberger. He was an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces Operations Sergeant on leave from Germany, where he served with the 10th Special Forces Group and most recently served as a Green Beret.

Livelsberger is suspected of being the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s. The truck contained gasoline and camping fuel tanks, as well as large firework mortars, according to officials.

When asked about the nature of the attacks, Homan said he had a “feeling” that both the New Orleans New Year’s Eve attack and the Las Vegas blast were connected, despite the fact that the FBI and police had found no evidence linking the two attacks at this stage. investigation.

“This is a gut feeling. I’ve been doing this for three and a half decades. I just think there are too many similarities,” Homan told Fox News host Sandra Smith. “Too many coincidences. I think something along the way – will show that there is some kind of connection… I might be wrong – it’s just a feeling I have.”

Pointing to both men’s military backgrounds, Homan urged the incoming Trump administration to step up “insider threat analysis,” which he said the Biden administration had put on the back burner.

“We have two people who served in the army [allegedly] committed these terrorist acts. We need to really investigate the threats from within our military and our federal service…” he warned.

The FBI said Thursday that investigators believe he is a suspect in the New Orleans terror attack I acteddespite previous consideration of a possible connection to the Tesla Cybertruck explosion.

Both Jabbar and Livelsberger served at Fort Liberty — formerly known as Fort Bragg — in North Carolina, but a U.S. official said there was no overlap in their assignments there. They served at the same base, but at different times, and more than 50,000 US service members are currently stationed at Fort Liberty.

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“As you know, there is also an FBI investigation in Las Vegas. We are following all potential leads and are not ruling anything out. However, at this time there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas,” he said Thursday. Christopher Raia, the FBI’s deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, told reporters.

Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.