The illegal immigrant who killed Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, but it wasn’t long before an ABC News reporter was in front of a camera claiming that President-elect Donald Trump was the real problem.

ABC’s Ike Ejiochi reported on the conviction of Jose Ibarra, who came into the United States illegally in 2022 and was paroled into the country under President Joe Biden’s lax immigration policies. Referring to the violent murder as a “political lightning rod,” he immediately pivoted to accuse Trump of using Riley’s death for his own personal political gain.

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Minutes after the illegal scum who killed Laken Riley was sentenced, Fake News hack @IkeEjiochi was on ABC blaming President Trump.

This isn’t a “political lightning rod” — it’s a TRAGEDY that ONLY happened because Biden-Harris LET this animal roam our country. pic.twitter.com/y0Tp3qpZqg

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 20, 2024

“This death of Laken Riley and the subsequent trial has essentially been a massive political lightning rod here in this country,” he began, adding, “The president-elect campaigning on the death of Laken Riley and pointing to the current administration, saying that their laws and what they’re calling ‘failed policies’ contributed to Laken Riley’s death.”

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Ejiochi went on to lay out the facts — namely that he entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and was paroled, after which he was arrested in New York in 2023 and released — but instead of drawing a connection to the Biden border policies that allowed his parole or the fact that New York is a sanctuary city, he pivoted back to Trump yet again.

“It’s important to note that although there is very little evidence indicating a connection between immigration and violent crime, this is still something the — uh — President-elect Trump, several Republicans on the Hill, wanted to essentially plant their flag on and point that to the current Biden administration,” he continued, going on to criticize Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for calling Biden out directly during his last State of the Union address. At the time, Biden responded by mispronouncing Riley’s name while attempting to acknowledge her tragic murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant — and later apologized for using the term “illegal.”

Ejiochi concluded by claiming that Trump had been instrumental in helping to “essentially tank” the bipartisan border bill — which, despite some claims to the contrary, would not have secured the border.