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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Joe Biden yelling Lincoln Riley after MTG asked him about murdered woman whom he mispronounced ‘Laken Riley’.
President Joe Biden mispronounced jogger Laken Riley’s name when mentioned her at his State of the Union address, calling her ‘Lincoln’ as he held up a pin with her name given to him by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green.
Biden got into several back-and-forth with Republican lawmakers during his remarks, in which he repeatedly attacked his GOP presidential rival, Donald Trump.
Authorities say Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant caught and released in 2022 under Mr. Biden’s border policies and protected from deportation by sanctuary city policies, killed Riley while she was out for a morning jog on the University of Georgia campus on Feb. 22.
Her death, and several other high-profile crimes blamed on illegal immigrants, have deepened an already venomous debate over immigration and the border.
Mr. Biden was speaking just hours after the House passed the Laken Riley Act in a bipartisan vote. The bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to detain illegal immigrants accused of theft offenses.
‘Lincoln, Lincoln Riley,’ Biden said holding up the pin. ‘An innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal.’
‘But how many of thousands of people being killed by legals? To her parents I save my heart goes out to you having lost children myself, I understand,’ he said.
He flubbed the name of the Georgia nursing student, who was killed while out jogging, on the same day the House passed the Laken Riley Act, which would mandate that migrants who enter the country without authorization and are accused of theft be taken into federal custody.
“Lincoln — Lincoln Riley,” Mr. Biden said, holding up a button with her name on it that Republicans were passing out. “An innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal.”
He continued: “That’s right, but how many of the thousands of people are being killed by illegals.”
“To her parents, I say, my heart goes out to you, having lost children myself. I understand,” Mr. Biden said.
Mr. Biden’s prepared remarks did not include any reference to Riley, so the remarks appeared to be off-the-cuff.
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