The Biden administration has not been seen as scandal-ridden or incompetent, but that hasn’t stopped the second Trump administration from attempting to blame the previous president for everything that goes wrong under his watch.
The Trump administration declared what the courts deemed a false criminal emergency and used it as a pretext to deploy National Guard troops to American cities.
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Trump’s deployment of these National Guard troops to Washington, DC, and the fact that red state governors have allowed Trump to take over their National Guard troops to do with as he pleases.
Without Donald Trump’s false criminal pretense, West Virginia National Guard troops would not have been in Washington to be targeted by a shooter from Afghanistan.
The shooter is the second failure of the Trump administration, since the current president granted him asylum in April.
Trump and his cabinet have been trying to absolve themselves of responsibility for their decisions since the deadly shooting on Wednesday evening.
One member of the West Virginia National Guard is dead and another is in critical condition.
Yet DHS Secretary Kristi Noem appeared on ABC’s This Week to blame Joe Biden.
Noème said:
We believe this individual was not screened when he arrived in the country. It was brought into the country by the Biden administration as part of Operation Allies Welcome and then perhaps reviewed afterward, but it was not done well based on the guidelines proposed by President Biden. And now, since he’s been here, we believe he could have been radicalized in his home community and in his home state.
So, as we continue to speak to his family and contacts, more details will be revealed, and we will release them when appropriate. But for these people, when they arrive in our country, it is a dangerous situation.
If you don’t know who they are, if they come from a country that is not stable and does not have a government that can help you control them, we should not allow it. And that’s why I’m so grateful that President Trump has taken the steps that he has taken in recent days to end all asylum, to end all processes that bring people into this country until we are sure we know who these people are.
ABC’s Jon Karl asked: “So, you’re saying there was no monitoring outside the country? Because we were told there had been monitoring outside the country. You’re saying there was no monitoring at all by the Biden administration?”
This question sent Noem into a spiral.
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