President Joe Biden had a chance this week to apologize to Laken Riley’s family and the millions of other Americans victimized by the border invasion he incentivized. Instead, the Democrat apologized for referring to Riley’s alleged murderer, a native Venezuelan with a criminal history, as “illegal” during his State of the Union address last Thursday.
It would have been politically advantageous for Biden, whose disapproval rating reached another record high last week, to use his sitdown with MSNBC over the weekend to own his “illegal” verbiage and apologize to the late Georgia college student’s family for incorrectly referring to her as “Lincoln Riley.”
Rather than beg for the forgiveness of the people his border crisis has wronged, Biden kowtowed to Democrats and their allies in the corporate media who demonized the use of the word “illegal” to describe foreigners who illicitly cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
“During your response to [Marjorie Taylor Greene’s] heckling of you, you used the word illegal when talking about the man who allegedly killed Laken Riley,” MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart said.
“Undocumented person,” Biden interrupted. “I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It’s undocumented.”
NEW: President Biden tells @CapehartJ that he regrets using the word “illegal” during his State of the Union speech to refer to the alleged killer of Laken Riley.
“I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It’s undocumented.”
Tune in at 6pm ET on MSNBC for the full interview. pic.twitter.com/EX7XuyhF1N
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 9, 2024
Capehart’s question was clearly aimed at eliciting an explanation from Biden
