Joe Biden ‘Regrets’ Using ‘Illegal’ to Describe Illegal Alien Who Allegedly Murdered Laken Riley

2024-03-10 15:00:00

On Thursday night during the State of the Union, exactly two weeks after the murder of 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley, Joe Biden finally said her name. Or, flubbed it, as the case may be.

It happened as he talked about the border crisis, which obviously was not a priority for him since he didn’t mention it until well into his speech.

During his remarks, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) demanded he say Riley’s name, just as she did when he was making his way to the podium and she confronted him.

As usual, he bungled it. The words that came out of his mouth were not “Laken Riley,” but “Lincoln Riley.”

After he acknowledged that she was allegedly killed “by an illegal,” he then asked “But how many thousands of people are being killed by legals?” which of course was an insulting and irrelevant question.

Biden probably would have been better off not saying her name considering not only did he get it wrong, but also because Democrats and the media had meltdowns in the aftermath of the speech, primarily because in their view he was mean to Ibarra by calling him “illegal”:

“Just like we should not be implementing Republican policy, we should not be repeating Republican rhetoric,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass, who added that she had never heard the president use that word before.

“The rhetoric President Biden used tonight was dangerously close to language from Donald Trump that puts a target on the backs of Latinos everywhere,” U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

On Friday, Biden was asked by reporters if he regretted using the term “illegal,” and though he initially looked like he was going to say he didn’t, he then said something about how Ibarra was “technically not supposed to be here”:

Sometime between that exchange and when he sat down Saturday for an MSNBC interview, his handlers must have made sure he knew to say that he regretted it. Here’s what Biden said when he was asked the “regret” question by anchor Jonathan Capehart while in Atlanta, Georgia:

“I shouldn’t have used illegal, it’s undocumented,” he said.

“And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. I talked about what I’m not going to do. What I won’t do.

“I’m not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect. Look, they built the country. The reason our economy is growing. We have to control the border and more orderly flow, but I don’t share his view at all,” continued Biden.

“Look, they built the country. The reason our economy is growing. We have to control the border and more orderly flow, but I don’t share his view at all,” continued Biden.

“So, you regret using that word?” Capehart asked.

“Yes,” Biden responded.

Watch:

I’m not sure what’s worse: Biden not saying Riley’s name for two weeks, him tweeting about George Floyd on the day of her funeral, or him expressing “regret” for not being more sensitive in his choice of words in describing her alleged murderer.

Former President Donald Trump, meanwhile, was also in Georgia Saturday, where he met with Riley’s family before a rally:

“Joe Biden went on television and apologized for calling Laken’s murderer an illegal,” he said to loud jeers and boos. “Biden should be apologizing for apologizing to this killer.”

[…]

Trump was joined at his rally by Riley’s parents, her sister and friends and met with them before he took the stage. They were welcomed with a standing ovation and large signs handed out by the campaign that featured Riley’s photograph and the words “SAY HER NAME!” “REMEMBER OUR ANGELS,” they read on the back.

“We share your grief,” Trump told them in his remarks.

As others observed, the contrasts here were remarkable:

Some final thoughts from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah):

Indeed.

— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —




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