UPDATE Thanksgiving Day 9:32 CST: God bless these kids. Judge Jeanine said they volunteered to work on Thanksgiving.
Heal quickly and fully, you wonderful young Americans.
#BREAKING: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro identifies the DC National Guard members, as Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolf, 24. #JeaninePirro #SarahBeckstrom #AndrewWolf #NationalGuard #Trump #WashingtonDC #RahmanullahLakanwal #WashingtonDCShooting #Shooter #USA #UnitedStates pic.twitter.com/pzr8ltxopF
— upuknews (@upuknews1) November 27, 2025
Please know we are all pulling for you.
🚨 BREAKING: Jeanine Pirro has identified the two National Guardsmen shot by an Afghan in DC as Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24 of West Virginia
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 27, 2025
"They were in DC to keep DC SAFE."
They are fighting for their lives right now in the hospital 🙏 pic.twitter.com/p79GAYVm4m
Press conference below.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro (@USAttyPirro): "Two uniform guardsmen were ambushed in a brazen and targeted attack. A lone gunman opened fire without provocation, ambush style..."
— CSPAN (@cspan) November 27, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash): "It is an ongoing investigation of terrorism." pic.twitter.com/Ob9qwSEcNH
UPDATE 8:41 CST: President Trump just addressed the nation from Mar-A Lago
🚨@POTUS: “I can report tonight that based on the best available information, the Department of Homeland Security is confident that the suspect in custody is a foreigner who entered our country from Afghanistan, a hellhole on earth. He was FLOWN IN by the Biden Administration in… pic.twitter.com/KjLVnwEt7f
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 27, 2025
..."Nobody knew who was coming in, knew anything about it! And his status was extended by legislation signed by Biden”
He said the suspect had been flown in by the Biden administration post-Afghanistan disaster, and then had his status extended.
He also announced that they're going to be 'reexamining' everyone who came in under the Biden programs, which means for many of them, it will be the FIRST time.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces that EVERY AFGHAN let in under Biden will now have their status "reexamined"
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 27, 2025
GOOD! Every single one should be sent back to the 3rd where they came from.
Not a single one should be left here. pic.twitter.com/stCl8vHDum
Per Biden's orders.
FLASHBACK: Email obtained by @HawleyMO shows the Biden admin ordered them to fill up planes with Afghan “refugees” even without vetting them.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 27, 2025
Troops on the ground said they were shocked by Biden’s failure to vet these Afghans before bringing them into our country. pic.twitter.com/JMDrI6O7zU
The president's remarks in full below.
WATCH IN FULL: President Donald J. Trump addresses the nation following the horrific terror attack on National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/5g6xpAYqVw
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 27, 2025
The 'most reckless immigration program in US history.
I wrote this in October 2021.
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) November 27, 2025
Biden's Afghan resettlement campaign was arguably the most reckless immigration program in U.S. history.
Not only was there almost no meaningful vetting to start with—they actively sought to *exempt* Afghans from the basic screening requirements. https://t.co/HoCQCQRMiy pic.twitter.com/mu80KLSLsK
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Oh. My. God.
CBS News had it first, and we just heard it on Fox during the Ingraham Angle.
Breaking CBS News: Multiple law enforcement officials say the suspect in the shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C. today is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, noting he entered the U.S. in 2021. pic.twitter.com/2YqMdmgmRS
— Breaking X (@BreakingXAlerts) November 27, 2025
Entered with the friends and Taliban family programs Biden started after his disaster at Kabul, and then overstayed his visa.
The gunman accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House the day before Thanksgiving is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, three law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Lakanwal, an illegal migrant who entered the U.S. after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, overstayed his visa granted under Operation Allies Welcome, sources said.
Authorities are investigating the shooting as a possible act of international terrorism.
Remember the questions about the vetting at the time, and being told 'shut up, already'?
🚨#BREAKING: The 29-year-old shooter known as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who shot two National Guard members, is reported to have entered the United States under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome a program created to resettle Afghans after the… pic.twitter.com/ZGfGjw0mNY
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) November 27, 2025
...administration’s Operation Allies Welcome a program created to resettle Afghans after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
The suspect in the National Guard shooting in D.C. has been identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021, multiple law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News. https://t.co/InOMexN9Aj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 27, 2025
He used a handgun in the attack. Wonder how he got that?
Suspect in National Guard shooting identified, sources say
Multiple law enforcement officials tell CBS News the suspect in the shooting of the two National Guard members is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the U.S. in 2021.
The suspect used a handgun to carry out the attack, two law enforcement sources told CBS News.
He reportedly waited around the corner for the Guardsmen to come around and shot a female Guard in the chest first, and then shot her in the head with her own weapon.
The Fox News reporter just told Jason Chaffetz they were also stabbed in their heads, both of them.
UPDATE
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) November 27, 2025
Reports that the shooter of 2 national guards members was an Afghan who overstayed a visa -- came in during Allied Welcome during the Biden Administration
The shooter shot a female guardsman, the secured her weapon and shot her again in the head before firing on others
BREAKING - The National Guard shooter has been identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan illegal who entered the United States under the Biden administration in 2021 and reportedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” during the attack. pic.twitter.com/h3KklqepoQ
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) November 27, 2025
I'll update as things come out.
UPDATE:
Every last swinging you-know-what in the Biden administration has so much to answer for, damn them.
November, 2021. Mayorkas admits that the 60,000 Afghans brought into the country after the botched withdrawal were not given in-person vetting interviews.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) November 27, 2025
In a proper country this would have been bigger news than the removal of an illegal immigrant gang member. pic.twitter.com/p8v5UUuWAo
Details from Mike Davis, usually a pretty reliable source.
From law-enforcement source:
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) November 27, 2025
Afghan National, born in 1996, armed with a revolver ambushed a female guardsman, shooting her in the head, and a male guardsman, shot multiple times. They never saw it coming. Both guardsmen were armed.
A Major in the National Guard, who was…
...A Major in the National Guard, who was unarmed and doing his spot checks of the guardsmen was in the block, heard the shots and turned to see the shooter who spotted him. He took cover behind a truck.
The suspect came for the Major who pulled out his pocket knife, and bravely took on the suspect who was reloading his revolver.
The Major began stabbing the suspect in the head.
Another guardsman in the area who was armed, them drew his pistol and shot the suspect twice, once in the leg and once in the buttocks.
The Major stated that when the suspect began shooting he heard him shout, Allahu akbar!”
I just briefed [omitted].
Now, you know too.
There’s more: we trying to confirm if the suspect, an Afghan national was an interpreter brought over by Biden, because he has a Department of Defense record. Again, we are trying to confirm.
The suspect has a home address in Washington State.
2021 Flashback: 'Conservative' Bill Kristol with the supergreen hot take
Almost every Afghan refugee will turn out to be so much better an American than Charlie Kirk. https://t.co/CdKZCCm2BO
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 16, 2021
Prayers up all over the country with theirs.
🚨 BEAUTIFUL: Members of the National Guard were spotted praying together outside the DC hospital where their fellow soldiers are fighting for their lives
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 27, 2025
Keep praying for a miracle here 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/loyB8VqvLG
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