Two National Guardsmen were shot, and one of them killed, two blocks from the White House by an Afghan national let in under the Biden administration. While the left and the right play the blame game on this it seems pretty clear to the American people. The Daily Wire’s editor Ben Shapiro said it best perhaps, “This one is on Joe Biden.”
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who was in the U.S. illegally, opened fire on our National Guardsmen in broad daylight as they patrolled near a train stop. Lakanwal was reportedly shot by a fellow National Guardsman and taken into custody at the scene, but not before doing serious damage. President Trump, announced last night, from his home in Palm Beach, Florida, that National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom had died as a result of her injuries.
“I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the Guardsmen that we are talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away,” President Trump told the crowd. “She’s no longer with us.”
Let’s not forget how we got here. Biden’s total disaster of a withdrawal from Afghanistan—leaving the country to the Taliban like it was a bad Airbnb rental—set off a chain reaction. It wasn’t just military failure; it was a national security time bomb. And now we’re watching it explode in our own streets.
Shapiro didn’t hold back: “These are the wages of Joe Biden’s awful foreign policy combined with his awful immigration policy.” And he’s right. After that humiliating exit from Afghanistan, Biden’s State Department rolled out the red carpet for “refugees,” slashing vetting procedures and pushing people through the system without proper checks.
And what do we get? A terrorist on American soil shooting our troops.
This isn’t just some freak incident. This is what happens when you import people from countries that hate us, with no plan to ensure they share our values or even respect our laws. “It’s failure on top of failure on top of failure,” Shapiro said—and it’s not hyperbole.
Shapiro makes a lot more great points about the state Joe Biden left us and Afghanistan in with her policy decisions that you should hear…