"Two families are shattered and destroyed and torn apart as the result of the actions of one man," said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
"Two families are shattered and destroyed and torn apart as the result of the actions of one man," said Pirro, in what should be obvious but, judging from most of the response from the Administration, apparently is not.
Immediately after a report (not substantiated at the time) that an Afghan national was responsible for shooting two members of the National Guard deployed to Washington, D.C,. the X right got into action politicizing the crime.. One was Bo Loudon, of whom during last year's campaign it was reported
Despite barely being old enough to vote, 18-year-olds Bo Loudon and Barron Trump were unofficially recruited onto team Trump to help the oldest presidential candidate in history tap into the manosphere and capture the “bro vote.”
Earlier this year Trump, 78, began experimenting with the new audience by engaging with YouTubers and podcasters, many of whom are sympathetic towards the MAGA movement....
“The strategy is reaching an audience that maybe isn’t being recognized,” Loudon told Piers Morgan on Thursday.
Much to the distress of the vast majority of the world not named Javier Millei, Viktor Orban, or Vladimir Putin, we know how that turned out. The 19-year-old maintains his influence in Trumpland. Therefore, he promptly amplified Donald's stridently partisan and anti-American response to Wednesday's shooting:
🚨BREAKING: President Trump just revealed the Biden admin. extended the stay of the foreigner "animal" who shot our National Guard.
— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) November 27, 2025
Follow: @BoLoudon pic.twitter.com/UJzsF8dGuh
Before we even knew the suspect's motive(s), Trump had decided the real culprit was not American policy or the (presumed) offender himself. It was a former President. And that is turning out to be less than the entire truth.
🚨 BREAKING: The Trump administration is suddenly blaming Biden for the D.C. shooter’s asylum approval…
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) November 27, 2025
…but CNN just confirmed the shooter applied for asylum in December 2024 and was approved in April of THIS YEAR, under Trump. pic.twitter.com/bUe5iJzJSF
Nor could we have been surprised that the Trump rot has seeped even into the Central Intelligence Agency, where in an e-mailed statement Director John Ratcliffe claimed
In the wake of the disastrous Biden Withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden Administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. Government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation.
This individual — and so many others — should have never been allowed to come here. Our citizens and servicemembers deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden Administration's catastrophic failures.
In such cases, it's customary to say "before the bodies are even cold...." Yet, the the Administration quickly not only decided, but proclaimed, that Operation Allies Welcome was a grave error ("and so many others") but that the primary culprit was not Rahmanullah Lakanwal but Trump's immediate predecessor.
Those "so many others" slandered by Donald's C.I.A. director served as partners to the C.I.A. in Afghanistan and deserved exceptional consideration by Washington when the war in Afghanistan ended. They sacrificed in their capacity for the USA and had they remained in Afghanistan, would have been targeted by the new Taliban government. The program has been imperfect but that was not the message of either the President or the C.I.A. director, who slammed the program itself and the President who created it.
And that Taliban government did not come about magically when the USA withdrew from Afghanistan in spring of 2021. Rather
The Trump Administration February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the tAliban tha t excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021 for the final withdrawal.
And the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership.
The withdrawal, though chaotic in execution, was planned and orchestrated by the first Trump Administration, negotiated with the Taliban and behind the back of the Afghan government. As we now see with the Russia-Ukraine war, it is Donald's style figuratively to pull the rug out from under our allies and shoot them in the back.
Very few other Democrats, liberals, or progressives are doing what tweeter Allen is doing, indirectly defending the Biden Administration by explaining that the Trump Administration does not have clean hands in the case of Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Notably, his bio reads "America FIRST," in contrast to the MAGA crowd which inaccurately portrays itself as "America First."
At the very least, though, the Trump Administration should be held responsible for caring less about the Guardsmen or the nation they were representing than they do in condemning another American President. Donald speaks for the America Last crowd or, perhaps, the Hate America gang.
In either case, more Democrats need to realize that a narrative has quickly formed and a counter-narrative, that President Trump has put our soldiers in harm's way, must arise. It will be hard to motivate Democrats to do that. Here is a suggestion: pretend Donald Trump is blaming Barack Obama, not Joe Biden, and Democrats will do something about it.
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