DEVELOPING STORY: President Biden apologized for calling Laken Riley’s killer an illegal alien. Watch below and click here to get Todd’s new book on how to save America from the Dark Brandon.
Biden told NBC News host Jonathan Capehart that he regrets using the term “illegal” during his State of the Union address to describe the savage killer of the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student.
Biden also misnamed Riley not once, but twice during the address — calling her “Lincoln.” The president has yet to apologize for that horrendous mistake.
“I shouldn’t have used illegal, it’s undocumented,” he told MSNBC.
The death of Riley has become a rallying cry for Republicans, a tragedy that they say encompasses the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S-Mexico border amid a record surge of illegals breaching the southern border.
“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,” Biden said.
Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita blasted the president and noted that he has yet to apologize to Riley’s family.
“He should be apologizing to the family as opposed to apologizing for the word that he used which is an accurate description,” he told reporters before Trump took the stage.
He ripped the response as “tone deaf” and a “pivotal moment” that highlights the candidates’ “two very distinct differences in approach on the border invasion.”
“There’s a clear difference,” he said. “One is sympathetic, coddling, and making excuses. And one wants to put a stop, put an end to it.”