'We are at war': Republicans said to be using New Orleans attack to boost Trump's agenda

Donald Trump is getting an unearned boost for his own political agenda based on a recent terror attack, according to a report.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar was an American citizen and a U.S. Army veteran who rented a pick-up and rammed it into a group of people in New Orleans, killing more than a dozen of them.

Trump seized on an early false report, which was later retracted, that suggested Jabbar might have been an illegal immigrant. The president-elect made multiple posts about border security in the wake of the terrorist act...