{"id":2196566,"date":"2024-03-11T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T18:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-meets-with-laken-rileys-parents-before-georgia-rally\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T18:57:26","slug":"trump-meets-with-laken-rileys-parents-before-georgia-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-meets-with-laken-rileys-parents-before-georgia-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets Laken Riley&#8217;s parents prior to Georgia rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-meets-with-laken-rileys-parents-before-georgia-rally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2196566&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/abril-elfi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abril Elfi<\/a><br \/>11:54 AM \u2013 Monday, March \u200b11, \u20632024<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump met with Laken Riley\u2019s family before he\u2064 made\u200b an appearance at a\u2064 Georgia rally.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On \u2062Saturday, Trump held a rally in Rome, Georgia, where he met with Riley\u2019s family before speaking with the large attending crowd of supporters. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI met her beautiful\u200b mother\u200d and family backstage,\u201d Trump \u200ctold the crowd in Rome. \u201cThey said she was\u200c the\u2063 best. She was always the best for us. They admit that she was the best,\u200d and she was the first in her class. She was going to be\u2064 the best nurse. \u2063She was the best nursing \u200cstudent. She\u200d was always the \u200bbest. She was the brightest light\u2064 in every room, they told\u200d me. She was the whole world \u2064to her parents, to her sister, and just\u200c to the whole family.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Donald Trump calls Laken Riley&#8217;s murderer \u2062an &#8216;illegal alien&#8217; and calls out President Biden for apologizing to the\u2064 murderer.<\/p>\n<p>Good\u2064 \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say he\u2064 is an illegal alien, he is an illegal immigrant,\u200b he is an illegal\u200b migrant, and \u200dhe\u2063 should have\u2062 never been in \u2063our country, and he\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/opj734IcvR\">pic.twitter.com\/opj734IcvR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1766640224287994242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who \u2064had been attending school in Georgia, was\u200b reportedly jogging on February 22<sup>nd<\/sup> when she was \u2062fatally attacked by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Trump blamed Biden\u2019s\u200c open\u2062 border policies for Riley\u2019s \u200ddeath, explaining that the \u2063current Democrat president has been\u2063 allowing undocumented immigrants from a wide range of countries, even some third world countries, \u2064to easily enter the United States \u2064illegally.\u200b  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cBiden \u2062has implemented a formal policy that illegal \u200daliens who intrude\u2062 into the United States are granted immunity from deportation,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThus, when this monster showed\u2064 up at our \u200cborder, he was set\u200b free\u2063 immediately under the program. That \u2063crooked Joe created it.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump added that\u2063 he was \u201cprofoundly honored\u201d to have Riley\u2019s family and friends at the rally. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re so incredible,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe hearts of hundreds of thousands, and indeed\u200b millions and millions of \u2064Americans and people \u2064worldwide, are shattered alongside your beautiful hearts. We share \u200cyour grief. We share your grief. Thank you, darling. Thank you. \u200dThank you very much. We appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In \u200chis aggressive attack \u200con Trump during his annual speech on Thursday, Biden \u2062only mentioned\u2063 Laken Riley \u200cin his address after immense pressure from Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene [R-SC] gave the president a pin with Riley\u2019s name on it, and after he was repeatedly heckled \u200cduring the speech and demanded that he say \u200dRiley\u2019s name, the\u2063 president said, \u2062\u201cI \u200bknow \u2064how to say her name.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cLincoln\u2014LLLincoln Riley, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-of-the-union-2024-biden-met-with-gop-heckling-despite-johnson-pleas-for-decorum\/\" title=\"State of the Union 2024: Biden met with GOP heckling despite Johnson pleas for decorum\">innocent young woman<\/a> who was killed by an illegal,\u201d Biden said, both\u2062 botching her name and using a term considered politically incorrect by most Democratic\u200c officeholders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden later apologized on Saturday \u200dfor referring to the alleged murderer, who entered the nation \u200dillegally from\u200c Venezuela, as \u201cillegal.\u201d However, Biden never apologized \u200cfor \u2063mispronouncing Riley\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>26-year-old Jose\u2063 Antonio Ibarra, a citizen of Venezuela who entered the country illegally in 2022 during Biden\u2019s reign in office, is being held without\u2063 bond on\u200d counts of kidnapping, felony murder,\u200c malice murder, \u200daggravated battery, and other offenses \u2064connected to Riley\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Stay \u2064informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for \u2063free. \u200cSubscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Rep. \u2063Steve \u2063Toth<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Roger Stone<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Dov\u2063 Hikind<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Jobob<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Reddit is aiming for a\u2064 valuation of \u2062up to $6.4 billion in\u200b its U.S. initial public \u200boffering.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would open-source its ChatGPT challenger \u201cGrok\u201d this\u2064 week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>UnitedHealth Group\u2063 is likely to need several months\u2063 to make a full \u200brecovery from one of the most \u2064disruptive hacks against America\u2019s healthcare infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Google has been touting the myriad \u200dinnovations in the\u200b first building wholly designed and\u200d built by the web giant.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> Why did\u200b Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene present President Biden with a pin bearing Riley&#8217;s \u2064name<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Former President \u200cDonald \u2064Trump met with the family\u200b of Laken Riley, \u200da 22-year-old nursing\u2063 student\u200d who was tragically killed by an illegal \u2063immigrant from \u2063Venezuela, before speaking at a \u2063rally in \u2063Rome, Georgia. Trump blamed President Biden&#8217;s open border policies for Riley&#8217;s death, asserting that undocumented immigrants from various \u200bcountries, including third world nations, are easily entering the United States illegally. He criticized Biden \u200bfor \u200bimplementing a policy that grants immunity from\u200c deportation to\u2064 illegal aliens who intrude \u2063into the country. <\/p>\n<p>During his rally speech, Trump\u2064 spoke highly of Riley, describing her as &#8220;the best&#8221; and emphasizing \u2064her potential\u200d as a nurse. He expressed his gratitude for\u2062 having Riley&#8217;s family and\u200c friends present at the rally, acknowledging the\u200d grief they\u2062 are experiencing. Trump condemned Biden for creating a program\u2062 that\u2062 allows \u200dcriminals like Riley&#8217;s murderer to\u200c be released immediately upon reaching the border. <\/p>\n<p>In response to pressure from Republicans, Biden \u2063mentioned Laken\u200c Riley in his \u2064annual \u200bspeech,\u200c but he stumbled over her\u2063 name and used\u200b a term considered politically incorrect. Representative\u200d Marjorie Taylor Greene\u200d presented the president with a \u200dpin bearing Riley&#8217;s name, \u200bprompting him\u2064 to\u2063 acknowledge \u200cher in his address. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting between Trump and Riley&#8217;s family highlights the political debate surrounding immigration policies and their consequences. Trump remains \u2063committed to advocating \u2064for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jordans-red-line-one-thing-top-speaker-candidate-says-he-wont-cave-to-biden-on\/\" title=\"Jordan's firm stance: Top speaker contender refuses to yield to Biden.\">strong \u200cborder security measures<\/a>, while \u200cBiden \u200bfaces criticism for his administration&#8217;s perceived leniency towards \u2062illegal \u2062immigration. The tragic\u200d loss \u200bof Laken Riley serves \u200bas a painful reminder of the potential dangers posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cotton-republicans-need-to-pursue-president-trumps-america-first-agenda\/\" title=\"Sen. Cotton: Republicans need to pursue President Trump\u2019s \u2018America First\u2019 agenda\">weak immigration policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump met with Laken Riley&#8217;s family prior to addressing a sizable crowd at a Georgia rally in Rome. 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