Laken Riley Is The Story Joe Biden Can't Suppress | Bobby Burack
Imagine you were unfamiliar with the deaths of George Floyd and Laken Riley. Instead, you read the following cases aloud for the first time today:
A career-long criminal who once robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint died during an altercation with a police officer, who used excessive force after the thug resisted arrest while reportedly doped up on fentanyl.
An illegal immigrant murdered a 22-year-old nursing student with blunt force while she was jogging a trail in Georgia between classes. Our current administration's senseless open border policy allowed the illegal to enter the country.
The death of the first individual caused nationwide civil unrest; months of news coverage; Congressional Democrats to kneel in Kente cloth; buildings to burn; and, Joe Biden to eulogize his life and call for systemic changes to the American police force.
By contrast, the broadcast news networks rarely mention the death of the college student. Biden has yet to say her name publicly.
In this scenario, you'd struggle to make sense of the disparate responses to the two deaths. But then you'd hopefully realize what voters ought to understand:
George Floyd's death was more useful to Democrats than Laken Riley's. That's it. That's the difference.
"Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act so we can make police reform the law of the land," Biden posted on X last week, the day of Riley's funeral.
Joe Biden and his media allies saw Floyd's death as a political opportunity, an avatar of the purported plague they vowed to combat: white supremacy.
In theory, racial hostility benefits the party that brands itself as more racially sensitive. Social justice was a hallmark of the Biden campaign. Police reform is a repeated hypothesis by which the Democratic Party swears. Supposed sympathy for George Floyd was a way to convince young black voters on the fence about voting that Biden would work endlessly to stop officers from harming them next.
Laken Riley is the inverse of George Floyd. Her death is the story that Joe Biden doesn't want you to think about or factor into the 2024 election.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed last week that the menace whom police arrested in connection to Riley's murder, Jose Antonio Ibarra, entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and had previously been arrested in New York City.
Biden’s oft-debated border policy allowed Ibarra to walk into this country, commit crimes and remain free only to batter a young woman to death.
That fact alone is damning. Now, factor in that immigration is the leading concern for voters heading into the 2024 presidential election, per a new Gallup poll. Over 28 percent of voters say the border is the most important problem facing the United States today.
If Biden loses the election – as polls and betting odds say he is more likely to than not – his negligence at the border will be the primary reason why, even more so than his cognitive decline or sputtering economy.
Laken Riley's pretty face is a symbol, a visual reminder of the threat Biden's border strategy imposes upon us.
Rachel Campos-Duffy, the host of the "From The Kitchen Table" podcast," has been covering the chaos at the border and illegal immigration for "Fox & Friends." She commented to OutKick on the impact she believes Laken Riley will have on the upcoming election:
"Remember the suburban 'security moms' of previous elections? Laken Riley’s brutal, senseless murder by an illegal gang member may very well mark the rise of ‘border moms.’ Being murdered in broad daylight while jogging on a safe college campus signals to moms that none of our daughters are safe in Biden’s America.
"Riley’s death was a wake-up call to American moms - especially for moms with college-aged daughters. It’s terrifying, and we will be thinking about this beautiful future nurse and our own daughters when we enter the voting booth."
The corporate media has tried to bury the details surrounding Riley's death and spin it away from its obvious links to an uncontrolled border.
The Associated Press called the murder validation of the "fears solo female athletes face" as opposed to validation over fears of illegal immigration.
CNN claimed there was "little evidence" connecting the murder to the border crisis while ignoring that the murderer crossed the border illegally.
An op-ed in New York Magazine claimed references to the border in connection to Riley's murder are just "grist for Culture War."
Yet despite calculated efforts by the press, Riley's story continues to percolate.
#SayHerName still trends across social media, in support of Laken Riley.
Donald Trump called Riley's parents and uttered her name on stage last week. Civilians clogged the streets around the church for Riley’s funeral on Friday.
Riley's mother, Allyson Phillips, implicated border security for the death of her daughter in a viral post on Facebook Sunday, saying "It would be really easy to lose our faith in mankind because of this senseless and avoidable tragedy."
Biden can't suppress what happened to Laken Riley. It's a movement. The censorship industrial complex cannot bury Riley’s death as it did the Hunter Biden laptop exposé in 2020, which one in six Biden voters say would’ve changed their vote.
Laken Riley’s death is not fodder for political theater. Her story is not manufactured for political gain. The public outcry is organic.
American voters know her name. They know who murdered her. They know how her murderer had access to beat her to death. And enough Americans know whose silence is deafening.
Riley’s murder is a devastating symptom of jeopardizing border safety in favor of an America Last political strategy, the gravest national security threat in our lifetime.
George Floyd is the name Joe Biden tethered to his campaign in 2020. Laken Riley is the name he cannot erase from his campaign in 2024.