Two National Guard members were shot by an Afghan illegal alien in Washington, D.C., just blocks from the White House.
The media immediately went into overdrive.
And Jeanine Pirro just shut down one sickening attack on Trump that had conservatives fuming.
Liberal Reporter Blames Trump For Shooting His Own Troops
Less than 24 hours after the Thanksgiving Eve shooting, the media mob was already spinning the attack into an anti-Trump narrative.
At a press conference, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro stood alongside FBI Director Kash Patel to brief reporters on the investigation.
That's when one reporter crossed a line that left Pirro visibly angry.
"There are people who are also upset with the president, believing the National Guard members should not even have been there, if it were not for the executive order," the reporter said.
Pirro shook her head and fired back immediately.
"I don't even want to talk about whether they should have been there," Pirro snapped. "We oughta kiss the ground and thank God that the president said it's time to bring in more law enforcement to make sure a city, that had the fourth highest homicide rate in the country, that that violence was quelled. I'm not even gonna go there!"
The exchange perfectly captured how desperate the Left has become to blame Trump for everything — even when an illegal alien from Afghanistan ambushes American troops on U.S. soil.
Biden's Failed Vetting Process Brought The Shooter Here
Pirro revealed disturbing details about the suspect during the press conference.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, drove all the way from Washington state to carry out what Pirro called a "targeted attack."
The shooter used a .357 Smith and Wesson revolver to gun down Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, 24, near the Farragut West metro station.
Beckstrom died from her injuries on Thanksgiving Day.
Wolfe remains in critical condition fighting for his life.
Lakanwal entered the United States in September 2021 during Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal under Operation Allies Welcome.
He overstayed his visa and applied for asylum in 2024.
Republicans warned about exactly this kind of disaster when Biden rushed nearly 200,000 Afghans into the country with virtually no vetting.
In October 2021, Senator Joni Ernst and 15 other senators wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warning that Biden's "hastily developed process creates gaps in security and criminal vetting and risks our Nation's security."
They were ignored.
A June 2025 Justice Department report found that Biden's rush to evacuate "overtook the normal processes required to determine whether individuals attempting to enter the United States pose a threat to national security."
That same report revealed 55 individuals evacuated under Operation Allies Welcome were later identified on terrorism watch lists.
So-Called Afghan "Allies" Have A History Of Attacking Americans
The suspect worked for a CIA-backed paramilitary unit in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
That's supposed to make Americans feel safer.
It doesn't.
During the war in Afghanistan, so-called Afghan allies committed what NATO called "green-on-blue" attacks — Afghan soldiers and police turning their weapons on American troops.
These insider attacks became so common they accounted for 15% of all coalition deaths in 2012.
Over 148 coalition troops were killed in these attacks, with 186 more wounded.
In 2019, insider attacks killed 172 Afghan security forces — the deadliest year on record for these betrayals.
An American soldier writing about his 2005 deployment described the first-ever green-on-blue attack.
An Afghan soldier who'd just been transferred to the unit got high on drugs, took $40 from the Taliban, and opened fire on American paratroopers.
"I never trusted another Afghan soldier again," he wrote.
That should have been the warning.
Instead, Biden brought 200,000 of them here.
Trump immediately ordered USCIS to halt all immigration applications for Afghan nationals pending a complete security review.
Democrats Blame Trump For Making Washington Safe
The reporter's question echoed talking points flooding social media from leftist activists.
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer posted on X the night before that the "poor Guardsmen should never have been deployed… it was for political show and at what a cost."
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung ripped Mayer for her "ghoulish behavior" and told her to "shut the f*** up."
Sarah Beckstrom volunteered to serve over Thanksgiving so other soldiers could be home with their families.
She wanted to protect Americans in their own capital.
She was murdered by someone Joe Biden let into the country with zero real vetting.
Trump deployed approximately 2,000 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., in August after the city posted the fourth-highest homicide rate in the nation.
During the first 30 days, violent crime dropped 18% compared to the same period the year before.
Homicides fell 38%.
Motor vehicle thefts dropped 35%.
Trump delivered a safer Washington, D.C.
And Democrats are trying to blame him for it.
Sarah Beckstrom didn't die because Trump deployed them.
They were murdered by an illegal alien that Joe Biden let into the country.
That's the scandal Democrats should be investigating.
¹ Jeanine Pirro, Press Conference Remarks, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, November 27, 2025.
² "2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting," Wikipedia, November 28, 2025.
³ Senator Joni Ernst, Letter to Secretary Austin and Secretary Mayorkas, U.S. Senate, October 21, 2021.
⁴ "Operation Allies Welcome | Homeland Security," Department of Homeland Security, 2025.
⁵ "Green on Blue: The allies who attack U.S. troops while their guard is down," We Are The Mighty, October 22, 2020.
⁶ "Did the National Guard lower crime in DC? What data shows before, after Trump sent troops," The Baltimore Sun, September 23, 2025.
