A rushing automobile flew, actually, into the border checkpoint at Niagara Falls, bursting into flames after the influence and killing the 2 folks inside it. It was only a automobile wreck, the FBI concluded, with no signal of terrorism and no proof of explosives on the scene.
The FBI’s determination late Wednesday got here a number of hours after the automobile raced by means of an intersection, hit a median and was launched by means of the air earlier than slamming right into a line of cubicles and exploding on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. Native police at the moment are dealing with the case as a visitors investigation.
“A search of the scene revealed no explosive supplies, and no terrorism nexus was recognized,” the FBI’s Buffalo workplace mentioned in an announcement. “The matter has been turned over to the Niagara Falls Police Division as a visitors investigation.”
Nonetheless, varied conservative figures, equivalent to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, persist in claims that it was a terrorist assault—a few of them even accusing fully imaginary “islamists” of being accountable and that it got here in some way from the Canadian facet—open borders!
“This confirms our worst concern: the explosion at Rainbow Bridge was a terrorist assault. Each attackers are lifeless, and one legislation enforcement officer is injured,” learn Cruz’s put up.
You may’t libel the lifeless, as Cruz properly is aware of.
Fox Information, not less than, retracted its earlier claims alongside these traces (it is not clear the way it sourced them, nevertheless it’s normally considered one of its quasi-journalistic information personalities speaking to a quasi-insider who is aware of the temporary.)
We’re previous no matter occasion horizon there was abut this kind of factor. They lie from the outset and persist within the lies even after it is apparent to anybody who cares that it was simply made up. The issue is that the viewers would not care if it is a lie or has no fact past what Ted Cruz or whoever writes on Twitter.