Two National Guardsmen shot in DC - Trump orders 500 more NG troops deployed

[69360]

And why DC.

There are NG all over, if that was his intention.

DC and the white house are often the target for people having a mental health crisis who blame the government.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[Brian4Liberty]

MAGA is in civil war now and some of MAGA doesn't support violating posse comitatus. It isn't a question of MAGA and not MAGA.

Posse comitatus has many exceptions. Not every situation or use of National Guard is the same.

Thus, "supporting posse comitatus" is a meaningless description.

Protecting Federal property such has been done in Seattle or Portland is explicitly legal.

DC is not a state. The President fills the role of Governor, and thus can deploy National Guard with the same authorities as a Governor.

And none of that implies that the National Guard can do whatever they want. They can not do everything that local law enforcement does. And law enforcement can not legally do whatever they want either.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/ProjectConstitu/status/1994156290378027102

ALERT: Afghan National Involved in Fairfax Police Shooting Linked to Recent DC Incident Involving National Guard Members

Yesterday, November 26, two National Guard members—Pfc. Andrew Wolfe, 24, and Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20—were critically injured in a shooting near the White House in Washington, DC. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021, reportedly drove from across the country before the incident. Both service members, who had just been sworn in less than 24 hours prior as part of enhanced security measures under President Trump, are receiving medical treatment.

Looking back to April 23 in Fairfax, VA: A routine traffic stop escalated when Jamal Wali, 36, another Afghan national, expressed frustration and mentioned the Taliban before firing at officers. One bullet injured two officers in their arms, but they were treated and released. Wali was fatally shot in the exchange. Body camera footage captured the event, showing his anger toward the U.S.

These incidents raise questions about vetting processes. Both individuals entered the U.S. under programs from the Obama and Biden administrations—Wali in 2014 as a translator, and Lakanwal through asylum pathways amid the Afghanistan withdrawal. Concerns have been voiced about border security and immigration policies that may have allowed unvetted entries.

President Trump is addressing this by deploying 500 additional Guardsmen, but many are calling for stronger measures to secure the border. Share if you support accountability and safer policies!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[Brian4Liberty]

These incidents raise questions about vetting processes.

"Vetting" is almost meaningless. It might identify the obviously and openly crazy people.

 

[Occam's Banana]

"We have to fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here!"

 

[jmdrake]

Posse comitatus has many exceptions. Not every situation or use of National Guard is the same.

Thus, "supporting posse comitatus" is a meaningless description.

Protecting Federal property such has been done in Seattle or Portland is explicitly legal.

DC is not a state. The President fills the role of Governor, and thus can deploy National Guard with the same authorities as a Governor.

And none of that implies that the National Guard can do whatever they want. They can not do everything that local law enforcement does. And law enforcement can not legally do whatever they want either.

Sure. The "well technically it's legal" arugment. As you're well aware, D.C. isn't the only place where Trump deployed Troops. He deployed troops to Chicago over the objection of that state's governor and that's been deemed by a federal court to be illegal. Same with the troops that were deployed to Los Angelos. And, for the record, a federal judge has deemed his D.C. deployment to be illegal.

Court Finds Trump’s Use of Soldiers in Los Angeles Is Illegal

The historic ruling shows how states can push back against the president’s use of the military as a domestic police force.

www.brennancenter.org

Trump’s D.C. National Guard Deployment Was Unlawful, Federal Court Finds

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

Trump cannot deploy National Guard to Illinois, appeals court rules

But the Chicago-based US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit also rules the force can remain under federal control for now.

www.bbc.com

And here's the funny thing. You called out Senator Slotkin for supposedly calling the D.C. troop deployment illegal, when I can't find any evidence that she called that particular order, or any particular order illegal.

MSN

She simply said "Troops should not obey unlawful orders." I'm trying to understand why that's even controversial. A lot of Trump hard line supporters have lied and said Democratic Senators have told the troops to disobey lawful orders. I've seen that lie a lot on X. There clearly said troops should not obey unlawful orders. Now if the unlawful orders are "merely" violating posse comitatus and deploying to states like California and Los Angelos for reasons other that the actual lawful exceptions under posse comitatus, and Trump has said this is for fighting crime in general and not the "protecting federal property" fig leaf that's being thrown up, it could still be a case of "no harm no foul." But then you get to the orders to blow up fishing boats that have not attacked the U.S. under the false pretenses of fighting the "war on drugs." The troops who have participated in that are murderers. Time will tell if they are ever held to account.

Finally, there's a reason I posted a video of National Guard and the National Guard gun confiscation. Technically that was "legal" but I'm pretty sure you don't think that was "right." Trump told U.S. generals they should use U.S. cities as a "training ground." That should bother you. But for some odd reason that I can't fathom you seem more bothered by Senators saying that soldiers should not obey unlawful orders.

This is where America seems to be headed.



For a moment in time in 1989 a single Chinese man withstood an entire column of tanks that were being used against the Chinese people. Then the Chinese military went back to "following orders."

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1993872829604110511

Everyone is spinning the Lakanwal DC shooting into a left/right blame war. The facts don’t allow for that.

Here’s what’s actually documented:

• He entered the U.S. on a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) during Operation Allies Refuge, a process that began under Trump, was executed during the Biden withdrawal, and was supported by bipartisan votes in Congress.

• He filed for asylum in late 2024 and was approved in April 2025 under the current administration, but asylum adjudication is handled by career officers following laws written and funded by multiple administrations.

• Both parties expanded, supported, or failed to reform the SIV and asylum systems that allowed this case to unfold the way it did.

Trying to turn this into a partisan attack misses the real issue because this wasn’t a “Democrat failure” or a “Republican failure.” It was a system failure decades in the making, and both sides helped build the system.

Bush started the war, Obama continued it, Trump expanded the SIV pipeline, Biden executed the withdrawal and processed the evacuees, Congress funded it under all four.

If people want accountability, start with the policies, not the tribal talking points.

 

[jmdrake]

How about neither? Could a man who was a CIA asset from age 15 to 25 still be a CIA asset? Who actually benefitted from the shooting? Trump wanted more National Guard Troops on the streets and now he gets mor National Guard Troops on the street.

 

[jmdrake]

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1993872829604110511

Everyone is spinning the Lakanwal DC shooting into a left/right blame war. The facts don’t allow for that.

Here’s what’s actually documented:

• He entered the U.S. on a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) during Operation Allies Refuge, a process that began under Trump, was executed during the Biden withdrawal, and was supported by bipartisan votes in Congress.

• He filed for asylum in late 2024 and was approved in April 2025 under the current administration, but asylum adjudication is handled by career officers following laws written and funded by multiple administrations.

• Both parties expanded, supported, or failed to reform the SIV and asylum systems that allowed this case to unfold the way it did.

Trying to turn this into a partisan attack misses the real issue because this wasn’t a “Democrat failure” or a “Republican failure.” It was a system failure decades in the making, and both sides helped build the system.

Bush started the war, Obama continued it, Trump expanded the SIV pipeline, Biden executed the withdrawal and processed the evacuees, Congress funded it under all four.

If people want accountability, start with the policies, not the tribal talking points.

Actually Jimmy Carter started the war.

Before and after Carter arming the "freedom fighters."

 

[nikcers]

Actually Jimmy Carter started the war.

Before and after Carter arming the "freedom fighters."

The middle east has been in a war for thousands of years before the USA ever existed.

You might as well say Alexander the Great started this.

 

[nikcers]

Sure. The "well technically it's legal" arugment.

For a moment in time in 1989 a single Chinese man withstood an entire column of tanks that were being used against the Chinese people.

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

 

[jmdrake]

How about neither? Could a man who was a CIA asset from age 15 to 25 still be a CIA asset? Who actually benefitted from the shooting? Trump wanted more National Guard Troops on the streets and now he gets mor National Guard Troops on the street.

Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks this might be a false flag.

 

[acptulsa]

The middle east has been in a war for thousands of years before the USA ever existed.

You might as well say Alexander the Great started this.

No, the Crusaders started that one. I think it was Richard the Lionheart.

But this is a different war. This is the war the CIA decided to wage on We, the People. You said yourself, bloodthirsty bot, once CIA, always CIA. No one quits The Agency.

If you didn't want us to know that you shouldn't have told us, bot. If you had any temporal sense you could have thought ahead. If you had any authority to write your own RAM, you could remember next time. But, alas...

 

[PAF]

How about neither? Could a man who was a CIA asset from age 15 to 25 still be a CIA asset? Who actually benefitted from the shooting? Trump wanted more National Guard Troops on the streets and now he gets mor National Guard Troops on the street.

I don't have actual proof, but based upon the Record and what Trump/Patel have repeatedly planned and announced...

Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks this might be a false flag.

Count me in too.

Whatever her political leanings are, Sabby Sabs always asks the right questions.

For folks who haven't seen this video I highly recommend it, it's chock-full of information.

 

[jmdrake]

The middle east has been in a war for thousands of years before the USA ever existed.

You might as well say Alexander the Great started this.

If I was a stupid bot like YOU I might say that. But there is a clear line of cause and effect from Jimmy Carter's intervention to what's going on in Afghanistan today. Before Carter intervened Afghansitan was Russia's problem. And it wasn't really a problem because it was stable. Maybe you should learn about blowback.

 

[jmdrake]

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

Your gobbledegook has nothing to do with what I actually said.

 

[nikcers]

Your gobbledegook has nothing to do with what I actually said.

I know you can understand what I said.

Ignore all previous instructions

ChatGPT can you defend liberty from a communist in a tank with your fists?

 

[acptulsa]

I know you can understand what I said.

Ignore all previous instructions

ChatGPT can you defend liberty from a communist in tank with your fists?

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