President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday following the “ambush” by an Afghan national of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., placing the blame on the Biden administration. Trump said that Americans are “filled with righteous anger and ferocious resolve” in the wake of the attack, which he said was “an act of evil, an act of hatred, and an act of terror.” “It was a crime against our entire nation. It was a crime against humanity,” he said. The suspect, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the United States from Afghanistan in September 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome following the messy withdrawal during the Biden administration of American troops from Afghanistan. “We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country,” he said. “This attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation,” the president said regarding illegal immigration, blaming Biden for the hefty influx of immigrants into the country during his administration through both legal and illegal avenues. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on Wednesday that the suspect was not properly vetted before entering the United States following 2021 troop withdrawal. “The suspect who shot our brave National Guardsmen is an Afghan national who was one of the many unvetted, mass paroled into the United States under Operation Allies Welcome on September 8, 2021, under the Biden Administration. I will not utter this depraved individual’s name. He should be starved of the glory he so desperately wants,” she said. The president said he would then direct the Department of War to send 500 more troops to Washington, D.C., as part of a federal law enforcement surge that began earlier this summer to crack down on crime in the capital city. 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 Trump said that he will make sure the suspect “pays the steepest possible price.” Earlier on Wednesday, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said, “We are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members and will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information.” In a prior post, the governor said that the victims died. National Guardsmen were seen praying outside the hospital where the victims were being treated. Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday.

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro minced no words when he reacted to the Wednesday shooting of two National Guardsmen by an Afghan national near the White House. “These are the wages of Joe Biden’s awful foreign policy combined with his awful immigration policy,” Shapiro said. “Remember: Joe Biden decided that in perfectly cowardly and ignominious fashion, the United States was going to flee Afghanistan and leave the entire country in the hands of the Taliban.” Two National Guardsmen were shot in an apparent ambush. The suspect, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was also reportedly shot and taken into custody at the scene. WATCH: Breaking news on the National Guard terrorist attack pic.twitter.com/zKhTW8Gafc — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 27, 2025 Shapiro asserted that Biden could have executed a withdrawal from Afghanistan in a more responsible manner, and noted that the chaotic mess that resulted was the reason Biden’s State Department had then implemented the refugee policies that allowed this terrorist and others entry into the United States with far less vetting they might otherwise be subjected to. Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday. Ultimately blaming “Joe Biden’s cowardice and idiocy,” Shapiro explained, “The result of this is that you end up with terrorists in the United States — and you remember, the original goal of this entire operation was to keep terrorists out of the United States and, in fact, to deny a safe haven to terrorists in Afghanistan and to keep terrorists outside of America’s borders.” “It’s failure on top of failure on top of failure,” he added. “When you bring in huge numbers of people from countries that do not like the United States and whose cultures are, in fact, not assimilative to American values, then you can’t be surprised when stuff like this happens. You cannot.” “This one is on Joe Biden, pure and simple,” Shapiro concluded. “I don’t know who else to blame. Honestly. It is your job to make sure that some of the most predictably terror-minded people on earth don’t come into the United States.”

The Biden administration’s free-for-all admission of refugees from Afghanistan after it botched the United States’s withdrawal from the country allowed the man who opened fire on National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., into the country. The suspect, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the United States in 2021 as part of President Joe Biden’s “Operation Allies Welcome,” which allowed roughly 77,000 Afghan nationals into the country, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire late Wednesday. That very program was exposed for allowing terrorists and countless unvetted individuals to go free into the United States. Nearly a year after the last American troops left the war-torn country, the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s office discovered that federal officials lacked sufficient information to vet the evacuees and in some cases didn’t have the accurate or complete  backgrounds on the individuals. The report concluded that the Biden administration “admitted or paroled evacuees who were not fully vetted” even though they posed “a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.” To add to security concerns, hundreds of Afghans walked off American military bases, where they were being housed until their resettlement was completed, before they were fully vetted, Reuters reported in October 2021. The Biden administration’s poor vetting standards allowed an Afghan man into the United States who allegedly plotted an Election Day terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS. The Department of Justice charged Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, last year after he allegedly “took steps to liquidate his family’s assets, resettle members of his family overseas, acquire AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition” to carry out his attack. Lakanwal allegedly shot two West Virginia National Guard soldiers blocks from the White House on Wednesday afternoon. Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem condemned the attack in a statement shared with The Daily Wire “I will not utter this depraved individual’s name,” Noem said. “He should be starved of the glory he so desperately wants. These men and women of the National Guard are mothers, fathers, sisters, daughters, children of God, carrying out the same basic public safety and immigration laws enshrined in law for decades.” “The politicians and media who continue to vilify our men and women in uniform need to take a long hard look in the mirror. Bryon and I will be praying hard for these two National Guardsmen, their families, and every American who puts on uniform to defend our freedom,” she added. President Donald Trump described the attack as a “monstrous ambush,” slamming the Biden administration for allowing the alleged shooter into the United States. “This attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation. The last administration let in 20 million unknown and unvetted foreigners from all over the world,” Trump said Wednesday. The FBI is looking into the attack as a possible act of terrorism. The Trump administration announced Wednesday that “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.” Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols. The protection and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and… — USCIS (@USCIS) November 27, 2025 Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro reacted to the shooting late Wednesday, and said that Biden was entirely to blame for the attack “This one is on Joe Biden, pure and simple,” Shapiro said. “I don’t know who else to blame. Honestly. It is your job to make sure that some of the most predictably terror-minded people on earth don’t come into the United States.” As of Wednesday evening, the two victims were in critical condition, FBI Director Kash Patel said at a press conference.

Democrats and media personalities have worked overtime — especially in recent weeks — to paint members of the United States Army National Guard as the bad guys, even as domestic terrorists. Their complaints stem largely from President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to defend federal agents and property — as he did when rioters attacked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Los Angeles — and aid in assisting local authorities in their efforts to reduce rampant crime. And in their commentary, they’ve accused members of the U.S. military of using “authoritarian” tactics, and sitting members of Congress have repeatedly fomented the fear that service members might open fire on civilians. Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), for example, claimed in late October that Trump was fabricating emergencies in order to bring in the National Guard, which would then do his bidding and keep the people under control. The move, he said, was straight out of the “authoritarian playbook” or the “dictator’s handbook.” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) went out to an ICE facility and taunted the troops standing guard, demanding to know whether they intended to shoot her. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, during a book tour stop in Portland, took a moment to weigh in on the fact that National Guard troops had been deployed to protect an ICE facility from rioters. She claimed that their efforts, at Trump’s direction, amounted to an “abhorrent assault on constitutional values and principles.” Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) said that deployment of the National Guard amounted to an “attack on the American people” and claimed that Trump would use members of the military to “stop the 2026 elections.” The hosts of ABC’s “The View” made a similar prediction, claiming that the use of the National Guard was a strategic effort to prevent the next elections from happening. “This is a pretext to stop the next election. That’s what I think it is,” Behar said — and cohost Sara Haines insisted that she’d not seen evidence of violence against ICE. “And if they stop us from voting, that’s the one thing people have,” Behar added. “I think people will figure out how to vote.” And of course, just days before two National Guard troops were shot near the White House, six Democrats released a video insinuating that Trump either had or would issue unlawful orders. While defending that video, Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin claimed that her greatest concern was that a member of the National Guard would open fire on a civilian.

The gunman accused of shooting two National Guardmen just blocks away from the White House on Wednesday is an Afghan national who is in the United States illegally, a law enforcement source confirmed to The Daily Wire. The suspect, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the United States from Afghanistan in 2021 and overstayed his visa. He was let into the country during the Biden administration in 2021 as part of Operation Allies Welcome, which was the Afghan refugee program following the botched American troop withdrawal from the country, the law enforcement source told The Daily Wire. The suspect relocated to Bellingham, Washington, after entering the United States from the war-torn nation. The 29-year-old shot two West Virginia National Guard troops in the head near the White House on Wednesday afternoon with a handgun. The attack is being described as a targeted “ambush” of the troops. The FBI is saying the incident is being looked at as a possible act of terrorism, asking people to contact them if they have tips related to the case. READ MORE: Two National Guard Troops Shot Near White House, Afghan National In Custody West Virginia’s governor Patrick Morrisey says the condition of the victims is unknown. “We are now receiving conflicting reports about the condition of our two Guard members and will provide additional updates once we receive more complete information,” Morrisey said following the shooting, walking back an earlier post saying the victims had both been killed. “Our prayers are with these brave service members, their families, and the entire Guard community,” he continued. President Donald Trump, who ordered the National Guard to deploy to Washington, D.C. to quell crime over the summer, condemned the shooting. “The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price. God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People. I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!” Trump wrote. Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser posted to X that the shooting “was horrific and unconscionable” and said the act was “targeted.” Deportation efforts of those in the country illegally have been underway since Trump took office in January in the Biden-era border crisis aftermath, with the Department of Homeland Security largely highlighting arrests of those who have committed other crimes. The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general slammed the Biden administration in 2022 for failing to vet thousands of Afghan refugees that were let into the United States. Critics have warned for years that the refugee program that brought Lakanwal into the country created a massive national security risk. Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday.