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Joe and Jill Biden visit Bourbon Street after New Orleans terrorist attack

President Joe Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, visited Bourbon Street days after 14 people were killed when a terrorist drove a van through a crowd of people.

In a video job Per CSPAN, the Bidens were seen paying tribute to the 14 people who lost their lives on Bourbon Street. More than two dozen other people were injured following the attack.

The Bidens were seen exiting a vehicle and Jill Biden was seen placing a bouquet of flowers on the ground where other flowers had also been placed.

During the Bidens’ visit to New Orleans, the president pledged to help finish “the investigation quickly,” noting that he had “asked” his “team to make every resource available.” law enforcement officials at the federal, state, and local levels. levels, according to New York Post.

“I have directed my team to make every resource available to federal, state and local law enforcement to complete this investigation quickly and do everything we can,” Biden said during a speech Monday evening at the Saint-Louis Cathedral.

Biden also noted that “New Orleans defines strength and resilience.”

As Breitbart News’ Hannah Knudsen previously reported, Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), revealed that the terrorist suspect behind the New Orleans attack, Shamsud Din Jabbar, had “posed two IEDs” or improvised explosive devices before his attack.

In the aftermath of the attack, Biden revealed in a speech at Camp David that the FBI had told him that Jabbar was “an American citizen” who was born in Texas and had served in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves American.

During his speech, Biden also noted that videos Jabbar posted on social media indicated he was “inspired by ISIS.”

The FBI previously confirmed that Jabbar was carrying “an ISIS flag in the truck,” according to NOLA.com.

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