President Joe Biden said Saturday that he shouldn’t have referred to Laken Riley’s suspected murderer as an “illegal” in his State of the Union speech less than 48 hours earlier. Now, Republicans are criticizing the president for “cowering” to the Left while backtracking on his words.
“The president is cowering to his base and showing deference to a man who deserves none,” House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote Sunday on X.
“Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant,” Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., told The Daily Signal, referring to the illegal alien from Venezuela charged with murder in the 22-year-old nursing student’s bludgeoning death Feb. 22 on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Georgia.
Guest added that “there is no other term we ought to be using to describe her alleged murderer.”
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