{"id":2354829,"date":"2024-10-14T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T21:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-clintons-attempt-to-pin-laken-rileys-death-on-trump-backfires-causes-new-headache-for-harris-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:00:04","slug":"bill-clintons-attempt-to-pin-laken-rileys-death-on-trump-backfires-causes-new-headache-for-harris-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-clintons-attempt-to-pin-laken-rileys-death-on-trump-backfires-causes-new-headache-for-harris-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton\u2019s attempt to pin Laken Riley\u2019s death on Trump backfires, causes new headache for Harris &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fbill-clintons-attempt-to-pin-laken-rileys-death-on-trump-backfires-causes-new-headache-for-harris-washington-examiner%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=2354829&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>Former President Bill Clinton&#8217;s attempt to blame former President \u2064Donald Trump for\u200b the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has created\u200d controversy and backfired. \u200dDuring his campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia, Clinton connected Trump&#8217;s actions\u2063 in Congress, particularly his urging of Republicans to \u2062vote against an immigration \u200cbill, \u2062to Riley&#8217;s death. Clinton stated that had the bill passed, it could \u200dhave potentially prevented the tragedy\u2063 attributed to an undocumented immigrant. However, Trump&#8217;s campaign seized on Clinton&#8217;s remarks to support their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asylum-seekers-stream-into-us-after-biden-revokes-remain-in-mexico-policy\/\" title=\"Asylum Seekers \u2018Stream\u2019 Into US After Biden Revokes \u2018Remain In Mexico\u2019 Policy\">anti-immigration agenda<\/a>, highlighting that Clinton&#8217;s comments might undermine Harris&#8217;s \u2064campaign by shifting blame away from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton&#8217;s remarks were \u200bcriticized,\u200c with Trump&#8217;s campaign\u2062 suggesting that\u200d he inadvertently made their case for them. Clinton also mentioned the broader\u2062 context of immigration in the \u2063U.S., emphasizing a need for increased immigration due to declining birthrates,\u2064 which sparked further\u2064 discussions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-flees-podium-without-answering-questions-after-delivering-remarks-in-delaware-video\/\" title=\"Biden Flees Podium without Answering Questions After Delivering Remarks in Delaware (VIDEO)\">immigration policies<\/a>. The narrative around this incident reflects \u200dongoing political tensions and debates regarding immigration and accountability in policy-making.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Bill Clinton&rsquo;s attempt to pin Laken Riley&rsquo;s death on Trump backfires, causes new headache for Harris<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1835328\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bill Clinton\">Bill Clinton<\/a>&lsquo;s attempt to pin the blame on former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> for the death of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley backfired after his comments were used as a soundbite by the Republican presidential nominee&rsquo;s campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Clinton, who has been dispatched to Georgia to campaign for Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, was trying to make a broader case that Trump is responsible for her death because he told Republicans in Congress to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2843032\/bipartisan-border-ukraine-deal-fails-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"vote against\">vote against<\/a> an immigration bill earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Trump killed the bill. The bill was being written by senior Republicans in the Senate, and he killed the bill. Why?&rdquo; Clinton said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RMSFTjoTr5E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"during a stop in Fort Valley, Georgia.\">during a stop in Fort Valley, Georgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s campaign clipped the second part of Clinton&rsquo;s comment in a post to X, deploying it on social media, where it then was recirculated by Trump-friendly surrogates and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You got a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn&rsquo;t you &mdash; they made an ad about it,&rdquo; Clinton said, referencing the killing of Laken Riley. &ldquo;A young woman who had been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they&rsquo;d all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn&rsquo;t have happened.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bill Clinton says Laken Riley&#8217;s death &#8220;probably wouldn&#8217;t have happened&#8221; if Kamala did her job at the border, continues on to imply that we need illegal immigrants for cheap labor.<\/p>\n<p>He was supposed to be campaigning FOR Kamala. YIKES. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k55Ee8rVH3\">pic.twitter.com\/k55Ee8rVH3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1845868462796603583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s campaign, which is heavily focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-poll-finds-hispanic-voters-fleeing-the-democratic-party\/\" title=\"Another Poll Finds Hispanic Voters Fleeing The Democratic Party\">reducing illegal immigration<\/a>, said Clinton was making the point for them. &ldquo;He was supposed to be campaigning FOR Kamala,&rdquo; the Trump War Room account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1845868462796603583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"writing\">posted<\/a> on X. &ldquo;YIKES.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During his comments, Clinton accused Trump of hampering the bill because &ldquo;there wouldn&rsquo;t be a problem [if it passed], and he couldn&rsquo;t keep people all torn up and upset.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Clinton&rsquo;s defense of Harris, who he stated was &ldquo;the only candidate who has actually endorsed a bill that would hold down immigration in any given year to a certain point,&rdquo; might be causing new headaches for her as the timeline of Clinton&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wake-up-with-the-washington-examiner-trumps-lawyer-problem-and-harris-scrambling-to-hold-latino-vote-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Wake up with the Washington Examiner: Trump\u2019s lawyer problem and Harris scrambling to hold Latino vote - Washington Examiner\">story doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t line up.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal immigrant accused of killing Riley, Jose Antonio Ibarra, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/press\/rep\/releases\/dhs-confirms-to-graham-laken-riley-murder-suspect-illegally-paroled-into-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"crossed\">crossed<\/a> the border in September 2022, was released into the United States, and then was arrested in February. That&rsquo;s the same month the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2843032\/bipartisan-border-ukraine-deal-fails-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"voted\">voted<\/a> on the border bill, so even if it passed, it would not have made a difference in the Riley case.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kamala Harris and extreme House Democrats&rsquo; embrace of far-left open-border policies even has Bill Clinton saying they went too far,&rdquo; National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Will Reinert said. &ldquo;Unfortunately, swing-district House Democrats voted against every reasonable border security bill this Congress that could have saved Laken Riley&rsquo;s life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton also raised a few eyebrows by saying there&rsquo;s a need for increased immigration due to low birthrates.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think Americans are anti-immigration, they&rsquo;re anti-chaos,&rdquo; Clinton said during a speech in Columbus, Georgia. &ldquo;They recognize, at least most people do, we&rsquo;ve got the lowest birthrate we&rsquo;ve had in well over 100 years. We&rsquo;re not at replacement level, which means we&rsquo;ve got to have somebody come here if we want to keep growing the economy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Unless one of you is one of these artificial intelligence geniuses and figured out how we can all grow with no work,&rdquo; he added as a joke. &ldquo;Which I&rsquo;m not sure would be good for us. I think it helps us a little to get up and go to work every day.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bill Clinton on migrants: &#8220;Most Americans recognize &hellip; we got the lowest birthrate we&rsquo;ve had in well over a hundred years, we&rsquo;re not a replacement level, which means we&rsquo;ve gotta have somebody come here if we want to grow the economy&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PdLvxeuAtM\">pic.twitter.com\/PdLvxeuAtM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1845851822939947448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Former Trump adviser Steve Cortes shared a clip of Clinton speaking and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CortesSteve\/status\/1845900459304771959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"added\">added<\/a>, &ldquo;Democrats want to replace American citizens with migrants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clinton is touring rural Georgia, a key swing state, as the Harris campaign looks to shore up support among black voters, with whom he is especially popular.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is leading Harris in the Peach State by a narrow 0.5-percentage-point margin, according to the <em>RealClearPolitics <\/em>polling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/georgia\/trump-vs-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"average\">average<\/a>. Democrats are hoping to keep Georgia in their corner after unexpectedly winning the state four years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1835328\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1835328\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Clinton&#8217;s effort to blame Trump for Laken Riley&#8217;s death backfires, creating issues for Harris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2354830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bill-Clinton-georgia-immigration.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38900,32438,42983,3634],"class_list":["post-2354829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bill-clinton","tag-kamala-harris","tag-laken-riley","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bill-Clinton-georgia-immigration.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}