ICE Barbie Panics When Asked About Vetting Alleged Guard Shooter
Trumpworld is working to blame last week’s National Guard shooting on the previous presidential administration.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem insisted Sunday that the suspected shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was the subject of an asylum request by the Biden administration, despite the fact that it was her department that granted the asylum request in April.
“I want to be very clear about this because his asylum was approved in April of this year on the watch of the Trump administration.” said Kristen Welker of NBC News. “Was there a vetting process in place to approve this asylum application? »
“The vetting process happened under the Joe Biden administration,” Noem said.
“But was he screened when he was granted asylum? Are you saying he was not screened when he was granted asylum?” » insisted Welker.
“The screening happens when they enter the country and that has been completely abandoned under the Joe Biden administration. It’s the irresponsibility that has completely devastated our country, Kristen, and put us in such a dangerous position,” Noem continued.
“I don’t think people realized when Joe Biden was in the White House exactly how he was allowing our country to be infiltrated by people whose identities we didn’t know, some of them we knew were dangerous and that we were going after them as soon as they arrived in this country, but under this program we could have up to 100,000 people coming from Afghanistan who could be here to harm us,” the security secretary added. interior.
Lakanwal, however, was not just an entity known to U.S. officials: He was a foreign partner of U.S. intelligence. He worked with the CIA as a partner in Afghanistan for more than a decade before the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region. Lakanwal, who entered the United States in 2021, always suffered from PTSD, his family said CNN.
He allegedly shot and killed two members of the West Virginia National Guard on the eve of Thanksgiving. U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died from her injuries. The other victim, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, would be in “very serious condition“, according to West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.
Lakanwal is currently hospitalized and in custody.
Of course, the West Virginia National Guard would never have been in Washington if Donald Trump had not ordered them to occupy the city under false pretenses.
Trump ordered some 2,000 National Guard members to Washington earlier this year, blaming rising crime rates, immigrant populations and homelessness — even though the numbers he used are actually from 2023.
These cherry-picked statistics misrepresent the state of crime in the nation’s capital, which, according to Metropolitan Police data touted by Trump’s FBI, actually fell 35 percent last year.
Just days before the shooting, a U.S. district judge ruled that Trump’s order “exceeded the bounds” of the Pentagon’s authority since the troops were being used for “non-military crime deterrence missions” without express authorization from city leaders.
