The person responsible for shooting two National Guard members in Washington, DC is the shooter himself. I have a policy of never naming shooters, so he will not be named in this story, but the circumstances that created the opportunity for the person who carried out this act of senseless violence were put in place by the Trump administration.
There are currently approximately 160 National Guard troops from West Virginia serving in Washington DC under the pretext of a “crime emergency.” Courts in other jurisdictions have questioned the emergency basis for this deployment, but what is clear is that the two West Virginia National Guard members would not have been in Washington DC without the order of Donald Trump and the governor of West Virginia replacing his president.
The gunman had worked with the CIA during the war in Afghanistan and was allowed into the United States in 2021. However, it was the Trump administration that granted him asylum this year.
When Donald Trump was asked by a reporter how this person was vetted by his government and granted asylum, the president blew a whistle.
