Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Border Czar, predicted that authorities would “find a connection” between the Las Vegas and New Orleans attacks on New Year’s Day.
On Thursday, Homan appeared on Fox News’ America Reports with Sandra Smith, where he discussed the latest press conferences from New Orleans and Vegas.
More than a dozen people were killed and dozens more injured when a man drove his car into a crowd and another suspect loaded a Tesla Cybertruck with explosives outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Except for the vehicle’s driver, no one was killed in the Las Vegas explosion. Seven people were injured.
Police said they found no link between the two cases. Vegas police are still investigating the man responsible for the explosions, whereas the New Orleans suspect (who was killed after exchanging gunfire with police) openly sympathized with ISIS.
Despite the fact that police had found no link between the cases, Homan predicted one.
“I think the further the investigation goes, I think they’re going to find a connection between the two incidents, but look, they are both suicide events,” Homan went on: “The man in New Orleans had no intention of returning home after engaging in gunfire with law enforcement.” I believe both of these guys realized they were not going home after this incident. But the threats are not over.”
The incoming border czar then stated that millions of illegal migrants are currently unaccounted for and untracked as he discussed other pressing threats to the country. Both the Las Vegas and New Orleans suspects were born in the United States (Colorado and Texas) and were Army veterans.
At the end of their interview, Smith asked Homan why he was so confident about a connection when there was no proof, and Homan explained it as a “gut feeling.”
“Do you have any other information or are you privy to any other information other than what we just directly heard from the police there in Las Vegas?” Smith asked.
“No, I do not.” This is a gut feeling. “I’ve been doing this for three and a half decades,” Homan said. “I just think there are too many similarities, too many coincidences.
I think somewhere down the road they’re going to show some sort of connection, whether it’s the same network or where they got the tools to pull off these terrorist attacks. And I could be wrong. “I have a gut feeling.”
