President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Specialist Sarah Beckstrom of the West Virginia National Guard had passed away after being shot near the White House the day before.
Trump delivered the news as families across the United States were celebrating Thanksgiving, saying, “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’re talking about — highly respected, young, magnificent person — started service in 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away.”
&#8220;She’s no longer with us, she’s looking down on us right now,” the president continued. “Her parents are with her. This just happened. She was savagely attacked, she’s dead, not with us. Incredible person. Outstanding in every single way, in every department. Just horrible.”
Trump’s announcement comes just hours after Beckstrom’s father revealed that she was not expected to survive her injuries.
“I’m holding her hand right now,” Gary Beckstrom said earlier on Thursday. “She has a mortal wound. It’s not going to be a recovery.”
Beckstrom, 20, had reportedly volunteered to serve over the Thanksgiving holiday so that other National Guard members could spend the time at home with their families.
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“She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families. Yet, now, their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
“They answered the call, they took the charge, they volunteered, they put their lives on the line for people they don’t even know, and that unfortunately is becoming a reality more and more for the members of law enforcement,” United States Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro added.
The suspect, Afghan national <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghan-national-in-custody-for-national-guard-attack-was-in-country-illegally?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Afghan+National+In+Custody+For+National+Guard+Attack+Was+In+Country+Illegally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rahmanullah Lakanwal</a>, 29, entered the United States in 2021 as part of President Joe Biden’s “Operation Allies Welcome,” which — as The Daily Wire previously reported — allowed roughly 77,000 Afghan nationals into the country.

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Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) posted a performance piece on Sunday — wringing her hands as she blamed the recently-ended government shutdown on President Donald Trump and claimed that he had almost single-handedly ruined Thanksgiving because of it — and got an impromptu review from actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman.
Murray, who voted to keep the government closed — and thus deprive millions of Americans of their food stamp (SNAP) benefits — more than a dozen times, claimed that Trump and Republicans were taking major steps to deprive families of food assistance as the holidays approached. Her main point of contention appeared to be the fact that President Trump had refused to override her vote — and the votes of a majority of Democrats — and do what they would not do, and she insisted that he was the real reason families were being made to suffer.
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It&#8217;s nearly Thanksgiving and everyone should remember that Trump fought all the way to the Supreme Court to deny families SNAP benefits this month.
All of this after Trump &amp; Republicans passed the largest cuts to SNAP in HISTORY this summer.
It&#8217;s fundamentally immoral. <a href="https://t.co/tiDol5wegG">pic.twitter.com/tiDol5wegG</a>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s nearly Thanksgiving and everyone should remember that Trump fought all the way to the Supreme Court to deny families SNAP benefits this month. All of this after Trump &amp; Republicans passed the largest cuts to SNAP in HISTORY this summer. It&#8217;s fundamentally immoral,&#8221; she said.
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Bateman chimed in with her review, addressing everything from the actress and her demeanor to the staging and the setting chosen for the video.
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&#8211; There are many unfortunate issues with this piece. 
&#8211; The actress appears to be at once under-rehearsed, and also weary of the task of performing. 
&#8211; Careful casting is a must when a project has an exacting director. The impression… <a href="https://t.co/DlAxrq3NyE">https://t.co/DlAxrq3NyE</a>
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&#8220;There are many unfortunate issues with this piece,&#8221; Bateman began, starting in on Murray immediately. &#8220;The actress appears to be at once under-rehearsed, and also weary of the task of performing. Careful casting is a must when a project has an exacting director.&#8221;
&#8220;The impression given here is that the director&#8217;s efforts to elicit a proper performance caused the actress to check out during her takes,&#8221; Bateman continued. &#8220;The resulting dialogue delivery is halting. Awkward pauses within the compound word &#8216;Thanksgiving&#8217; and before some prepositions are perhaps an effort by the actress to sabotage the piece itself.&#8221;
When she&#8217;d finished with the actress and her awkward delivery, Bateman turned her attention to the staging of the shot — and some of the issues that a good camera operator would certainly have noticed before making the film public.
&#8220;The utilitarian lighting appears to have been applied hastily and implies a parking garage or other industrial settings,&#8221; she noted. &#8220;The camera frame is vertical with some hazy video filled in at the sides. Avoid this at all costs. This implies an amateur effort. Properly orient your camera horizontally.&#8221;
&#8220;Finally, the setting is extremely distracting. The first impression is that the actress is standing in a bathroom stall. The low wall on her left as the semi-private partition. The orange object on the floor appears to be a toilet with closed toilet seat cover,&#8221; Bateman concluded. &#8220;The silver pipe on the wall suggests an old-fashioned flush system, where the tank is installed above. And the red box serving as the &#8216;flush&#8217; button.&#8221;

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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.
&#8220;These are the wages of Joe Biden&#8217;s awful foreign policy combined with his awful immigration policy,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;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.&#8221;
Two National Guardsmen were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghan-national-in-custody-for-national-guard-attack-was-in-country-illegally">shot</a> in an apparent ambush. The suspect, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was also reportedly shot and taken into custody at the scene.
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Breaking news on the National Guard terrorist attack <a href="https://t.co/zKhTW8Gafc">pic.twitter.com/zKhTW8Gafc</a>
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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&#8217;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.
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Ultimately blaming &#8220;Joe Biden&#8217;s cowardice and idiocy,&#8221; Shapiro explained, &#8220;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&#8217;s borders.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s failure on top of failure on top of failure,&#8221; he added. &#8220;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&#8217;t be surprised when stuff like this happens. You cannot.&#8221;
&#8220;This one is on Joe Biden, pure and simple,&#8221; Shapiro concluded. &#8220;I don&#8217;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&#8217;t come into the United States.&#8221;

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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, <a href="https://x.com/gavinnewsom/status/1981103617265586655?s=46&amp;t=5nB3R1hthzMlYMrXjZyN8Q">claimed</a> 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.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mad-maxine-maxine-waters-harasses-ice-agents-are-you-going-to-shoot-an-elected-official">Rep. Maxine Waters</a> (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.”
<a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1993787164157673565?s=46&amp;t=5nB3R1hthzMlYMrXjZyN8Q">Governor JB Pritzker</a> (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 <a href="https://x.com/nickfondacaro/status/1975586006205095999?s=46&amp;t=5nB3R1hthzMlYMrXjZyN8Q">similar prediction</a>, 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&#8217;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&#8217;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.

Democrats Have Spent Months Cultivating ‘Terrorist’ Image Of National Guard

Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) doubled down on the viral video he made with five of his colleagues, saying that he had no intention of backing off despite a pending inquiry into his comments.
Kelly addressed the issue during an appearance on &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live,&#8221; telling the late-night host that he stood by what he&#8217;d said in the video, which he claimed was intended to caution members of the military to follow only lawful orders from President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration.
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🚨 BREAKING: Seditious Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly has cooked himself even FURTHER, running to Jimmy Kimmel and telling Pete Hegseth and President Trump he’ll KEEP pushing for rebellion
“I’m NOT backing down!” 🤯
Court-martial this traitor. Enough.
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&#8220;I mean, you can&#8217;t keep track of this guy and what he says,&#8221; Kelly said, apparently referring to Trump. &#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you this though: I&#8217;m not backing down.&#8221;
The audience cheered, and Kelly continued, &#8220;I mean, we said something very simple. Members of the military need to follow the law. We wanted to say that we have their backs.&#8221;
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What Kelly left out was the fact that in the video, clearly implied in their admonitions to &#8220;only obey lawful orders,&#8221; was the notion that President Trump either already had or would certainly issue one or more orders that were not lawful — and that they should be actively looking for them.
War Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-hegseth-unloads-on-insurrection-video-a-politically-motivated-influence-operation">Pete Hegseth</a> referred to it as &#8220;a politically-motivated influence operation&#8221; and argued that it was designed to sow doubt in the minds of service members and plant the seeds of insurrection. He, along with others, noted that Kelly was the only one of the &#8220;Seditious Six&#8221; who had retired from military service and was still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and could therefore be returned to active duty to face repercussions for his actions. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/call-for-rebellion-stephen-miller-scorches-dems-for-pushing-insurrection-against-trumps-military-orders/">described</a> it as &#8220;insurrection.&#8221;
Kimmel, only too happy to carry Kelly&#8217;s water, lamented the fact that the Arizona senator would now have to take time away from serving the people of his state to hire attorneys and deal with the consequences of his actions.
&#8220;[You have to] consult with lawyers, and have to deal with this when you&#8217;re first of all working for the people of Arizona, the people of the United States,&#8221; Kimmel said. &#8220;Now you actually have to spend your time — are you actually, like, worried about this?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been through a lot more challenging things than this,&#8221; Kelly said, waving away the concern. &#8220;What I&#8217;m worried about is the reaction and what this transmits to the military and the public, which is basically, &#8216;Shut up, and listen to that guy.'&#8221;
Kelly continued down that same path, noting that service members swear an oath to the Constitution while insinuating that President Trump — who also swore such an oath — was likely to violate that and order them to do the same.

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Gym rat and singer turned activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-tish-hyman-the-california-lesbian-fighting-to-keep-men-out-of-womens-locker-rooms">Tish Hyman</a> crashed Rep. Eric Swalwell&#8217;s (D-CA) recent town hall event, demanding answers from him regarding whether he would support women&#8217;s sex-based rights or would continue to allow trans-identifying men to invade women&#8217;s spaces.
Swalwell, who just recently announced that he was running to be the next governor of California, was trying to tout his personal record as a prosecutor when it came to crimes against women. Hyman, the subject of a recent viral video involving a trans-identifying man in the women&#8217;s locker room at her gym, pressed him repeatedly to recognize that men were not women, regardless of how they choose to identify.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES! Jaw-dropping moment as California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell gets RIPPED to his face by Tish Hyman, the woman who went viral for being kicked out of Gold&#8217;s Gym for opposing men in women&#8217;s restrooms
HYMAN: Show the women of California you will PROTECT… <a href="https://t.co/p3AtScvuvL">pic.twitter.com/p3AtScvuvL</a>
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&#8220;First, ma&#8217;am, you asked I think the most emotionally poignant question and I want to start with you,&#8221; Swalwell began, and immediately began to give his resume on prosecuting crimes against women. &#8220;I will not be a governor that tolerates violence against women in our state, period. That&#8217;s not gonna happen. It&#8217;s not.&#8221;
A number in the audience applauded, but that was when things started to get a little bit sticky.
&#8220;Now, as it relates, you know, to the issue of —&#8221; Swalwell continued.
&#8220;Men,&#8221; Hyman interjected.
&#8220;—trans kids —&#8221; Swalwell tried again.
&#8220;Men,&#8221; Hyman repeated.
&#8220;— particularly in sports —&#8221; Swalwell said.
&#8220;Men, in women&#8217;s space,&#8221; Hyman insisted. &#8220;Harassing, and you said it wasn&#8217;t a thing. 14 times you said it wasn&#8217;t a thing. So I need you to show all the women of California that you&#8217;re gonna protect us.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to protect women,&#8221; Swawell said. &#8220;I did as a prosecutor, I will protect women. No woman should be harassed —&#8221;
&#8220;Are there gonna be men allowed in the women&#8217;s room anymore?&#8221; Hyman shouted. &#8220;We need to know!&#8221;
&#8220;No woman should be harassed in a locker room, that&#8217;s a crime,&#8221; Swalwell said.
&#8220;Answer straight!&#8221; Hyman demanded. &#8220;Are there gonna be women — are you against men in women&#8217;s locker rooms and sports? That&#8217;s all you need to answer. Please!&#8221;
Swalwell did not answer directly but continued to insist that he would protect women and that women &#8220;should not be harassed&#8221; while in locker rooms.
&#8220;It&#8217;s happening all over America. There are 45 men in the women&#8217;s prisons right now raping them! Picking them out like chicken. Trans men are NOT women! They are raping women. So I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re on the Democrat side, the Republican side, we need to be on the women&#8217;s side, people!&#8221; Hyman demanded. &#8220;It&#8217;s happening to our girls, it&#8217;s happening to our women, and I&#8217;m here to let everyone know that this is happening. Open your eyes!&#8221;

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an earful to a small group of Democrats — most of whom were veterans of the United States Armed Services — who created a video that appeared to be actively encouraging current service members to disobey orders from President Donald Trump.
In the video in question, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despicable-reckless-and-false-hegseth-coins-new-nickname-for-dems-pushing-military-insurrection">six Democrats</a> — former CIA analyst and Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) along with Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) — called on members of the military to seriously consider whether or not orders coming from the White House were “lawful&#8221; and clearly insinuated that they might not be.
Hegseth laid into the six lawmakers in a post on Tuesday, pointing out that even though civilians might not think anything of the things they&#8217;d said, military service members should know better.
&#8220;The despicable video urging @DeptofWar troops to &#8216;refuse illegal orders&#8217; may seem harmless to civilians — but it carries a different weight inside the military,&#8221; Hegseth explained. &#8220;This was a politically-motivated influence operation: It never named a specific &#8216;illegal order&#8217;; It created ambiguity rather than clarity; It used carefully scripted, legal-sounding language; It subtly reframed military obedience around partisan distrust instead of established legal processes.&#8221;
&#8220;In the military, vague rhetoric and ambiguity undermines trust, creates hesitation in the chain of command, and erodes cohesion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The military already has clear procedures for handling unlawful orders. It does not need political actors injecting doubt into an already clear chain of command. As veterans of various sorts, the Seditious Six knew exactly what they were doing — sowing doubt through a politically-motivated influence operation. The @DeptofWar won’t fall for it or stand for it.&#8221;
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The despicable video urging <a href="https://twitter.com/DeptofWar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeptofWar</a> troops to “refuse illegal orders” may seem harmless to civilians — but it carries a different weight inside the military.
This was a politically-motivated influence operation:
☑️ It never named a specific “illegal order.” 
☑️ It created…
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/1993304935874592932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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After noting on Monday that Senator Kelly — the only one of the six who retired from the military — was still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), Hegseth sent a memorandum on Tuesday to the Secretary of the Navy asking for a full review of Kelly&#8217;s comments on the video. He said that he&#8217;d expect a brief on the Navy Secretary&#8217;s review no later than December 10.
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Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani (D-NYC) raised eyebrows with a recent addition to his transition team: sociology professor and author of &#8220;The End of Policing,&#8221; Alex Vitale.
Mamdani had to dial back his own anti-police rhetoric during his mayoral campaign, apologizing to New York City police officers for previous comments when prompted by Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, but his selection of Vitale appears to be a sign that he&#8217;s reverting back to his original positions.
&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC,&#8221; Vitale <a href="https://x.com/avitale/status/1993053108663198202">announced via X</a> on Sunday.
As critics quickly pointed out, Vitale&#8217;s position has always been decidedly anti-cop. His book, &#8220;The End of Policing,&#8221; imagines a word where &#8220;modern policing&#8221; is broadly replaced by a combination of decriminalization and community empowerment. He argues that policing is designed to reinforce inequality, and that giving police officers diversity training is not enough to bridge the gap.
He has called for the decriminalization of offenses such as prostitution and drug use, and advocates for private corporations or government programs that would provide permanent housing for the homeless population. In addition, he has repeatedly attacked Israel, claiming that Israelis are &#8220;occupying&#8221; land belonging to Palestinians — and tied that in to his negative views on policing as well, complaining that American police should not be training with Israelis: &#8220;I’m not happy with these exchanges of policing to Israel. Israel is engaged in an occupation.&#8221;
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Video circulated of Vitale, in an interview, referring to police as &#8220;violence workers&#8221; and adding, &#8220;if you don’t want racism and violence, don’t get the police involved.&#8221;
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🚨 New Mamdani Transition Team Member Says Cops Are “Violence Workers” and NYPD–Israel Training Trips “Pervert American Politics”
Alex Vitale — author of The End of Policing, sociology professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, and now officially part of Zohran… <a href="https://t.co/n6REJNfbjH">pic.twitter.com/n6REJNfbjH</a>
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/thestustustudio/status/1993101611804049914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The overall assessment, as shared by a number of people via X, is that Mamdani had simply reverted to the same anti-police, anti-Israel socialist that his opposition had spent the entire campaign warning people he was.
&#8220;The biggest risk of a Mamdani mayorship? Mass exodus from the NYPD. This occurred in SF under the radical left DA, Chesa Boudin. When police aren&#8217;t supported, they quit, retire early, or never join in the first place,&#8221; one <a href="https://x.com/michelletandler/status/1943321480466424104">posted</a>.
&#8220;Huge step backwards for Mamdani. This guy wants to defund and abolish policing. You can find him wherever prep school lefties congregate, zero working class New Yorkers adhere to these ideas,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/lhfang/status/1993123594474566090">another added</a>.

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Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) threatened members of the U.S. military on Monday, warning that there would be &#8220;consequences&#8221; if they went along with the War Department&#8217;s plan to investigate Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) over his participation in a video that appeared to encourage insurrection.
Gallego spoke with CNN host Kasie Hunt on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Arena with Kasie Hunt,&#8221; where he defended the video in which Kelly and several others called on members of the military to refuse &#8220;unlawful orders&#8221; — while clearly insinuating that President Donald Trump either would or had already issued such orders. He then lashed out at the War Department for calling out Kelly, who, as a retired Navy commander, is still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), and promised retribution to any who went along with it.
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MORE THREATS: Ruben Gallego promises legal retaliation over military&#8217;s investigation into Mark Kelly:
“Donald Trump&#8217;s going to be gone in a couple of years.&#8221;
&#8220;If you&#8217;re part of the military that is going after sitting Senators&#8230;and part of the weaponization of government —… <a href="https://t.co/QJwq2v6GLe">pic.twitter.com/QJwq2v6GLe</a>
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1993083556067946837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hunt asked what was Gallego&#8217;s &#8220;level of trust in the U.S. military justice system, if it were to get that far, to handle this?&#8221;
The Arizona Senator said that he did trust the system, but that if it were to go too far, members of the military who aided in any such action against Kelly would do well to remember that someday Trump would no longer be in office and could not &#8220;protect&#8221; them.
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&#8220;Donald Trump is going to be gone in a couple years. And if you’re part of the military that is going after sitting senators, sitting members of Congress, and part of the weaponization of government, there will be consequences, without a doubt,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;I think there’s going to be a lot of officers that are part of this potential tribunal, if they want to call it that, that will be looking over their shoulders,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;Because they know that Donald Trump will be gone, and they will not have that protection. They’re going to have to do the safest thing possible, which is follow the Constitution of the United States, and you’ll be fine.&#8221;

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Embattled Democrat <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-dem-candidate-aftyn-behn-i-dont-want-children-i-want-power">Aftyn Behn</a>, currently vying for a House seat in Tennessee&#8217;s 7th Congressional District, attempted to do some damage control after an audio recording of her saying that she &#8220;hates&#8221; everything about Nashville went viral — and her defense may have made the situation worse.
Behn, appearing on the Breaking Points podcast, fielded a question about her comment and claimed that she couldn&#8217;t possibly hate country music because she was &#8220;conceived after a George Strait concert.&#8221;
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Democrat Aftyn Behn bizarrely tries to walk back her comments saying she &#8220;hates&#8221; Nashville and country music.
&#8220;I do not hate country music, I was conceived after a George Strait concert.&#8221; 🤡 <a href="https://t.co/jqhixHhOq6">pic.twitter.com/jqhixHhOq6</a>
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One of the hosts began by repeating her previous comment for context: &#8220;Apparently you said, &#8216;I hate the city, I hate the Tennessee bachelorettes, I hate pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all the things that make Nashville &#8230; I hate it.'&#8221;
&#8220;The bachelorette part is a little bit fair,&#8221; one of the others joked. &#8220;So we won&#8217;t make you weigh in on that, Aftyn.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s so fair,&#8221; another agreed.
&#8220;But what would you like to say about this clip that&#8217;s floating around?&#8221;
&#8220;So, I&#8217;m going to say something I haven&#8217;t said,&#8221; Behn replied. &#8220;And I think it&#8217;s funny, I hope my parents don&#8217;t kill me, but I do not hate country music. I was conceived after a George Strait concert, so &#8230; I feel personally attacked.&#8221;
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Behn also raised eyebrows with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-dem-candidate-aftyn-behn-i-dont-want-children-i-want-power">another audio clip</a> in which she could be heard describing a recurring dream that she had discussed with her therapist.
&#8220;My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams when they happen, and the recurring dream I’ve had is standing up in a cafeteria full of women — I don’t know why I was there or whatever — and saying, ‘I don’t want children. I want power!’ And just screaming it at the top of my lungs,&#8221; she recalled.

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&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Joe Scarborough laid into Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on Monday, criticizing her defense of a video in which she and several others in her party had actively encouraged service members to refuse &#8220;unlawful&#8221; orders from President Donald Trump.
Scarborough&#8217;s issue was not the fact that Slotkin, a former CIA analyst — and several others who had served in the military — had made the video insinuating that Trump either had already or would soon issue unlawful orders and telling military service members that they had a responsibility to refuse them. He did not take issue with the fact that she was defending the video, but rather, he was upset that she&#8217;d been unable to answer a specific question about it to his satisfaction during a recent interview.
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Joe Scarborough is very mad at Senator Slotkin for saying Trump hasn’t issued any illegal orders.
&#8220;Wrong answer!&#8221;
Joe then goes on to cite a hypothetical scenario of what Trump might do as evidence of illegal orders. <a href="https://t.co/viCkHoAxMJ">https://t.co/viCkHoAxMJ</a> <a href="https://t.co/NNyUdgizPw">pic.twitter.com/NNyUdgizPw</a>
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Scarborough was responding to Slotkin&#8217;s answer to host Martha Raddatz — on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; —  when she admitted that she didn&#8217;t actually know of any illegal orders that President Trump had given.
&#8220;I’m sorry, with all due respect, wrong answer. President of the United States, the commander-in-chief does have wide latitude, just does. And the Senate can take that up. But he has wide latitude on strikes. Ask Barack Obama on drone strikes. Ask George W. Bush on drone strikes,&#8221; Scarborough said, referencing the Trump administration&#8217;s actions against narco-terrorists.
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&#8220;But where we know the president has said, I am going to give illegal orders to people in the military, is when he was on Air Force One coming back, I forget where he was coming back from, but he said, ‘I can send the Marines. I can send the Army. I can send the Air Force. I can send the Coast Guard into any city I want to control crime. And the courts can’t do anything about it.’ That’s illegal. It’s just illegal,&#8221; Scarborough continued, insisting that Trump had said he&#8217;d give illegal orders despite the fact that thus far, he had not done so.
&#8220;And so Democrats kind of need to – if the president has already said, I’m going to commit this illegal act, then I’m kind of surprised they don’t have the answer when they go on a Sunday show for that,&#8221; he complained.

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CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan claimed on Sunday that nearly half of the illegal immigrants being deported by President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration had neither been charged nor convicted of any crimes — but the Department of Homeland Security took a different view of things.
Brennan laid out the situation on &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; where she explained, &#8220;The number of detainees held by U.S. immigration and customs enforcement has reached a record high of nearly 66,000, according to data released Friday by DHS.&#8221;
&#8220;Earlier this month, our Camilo Montoya-Galvez reported that roughly half of those in custody have no criminal charges or convictions on their record,&#8221; she added, claiming that they were &#8220;being held solely because of alleged civil violations of immigration law &#8230; 48% of current detainees lack criminal charges or convictions.&#8221;
She went on to claim that the number of &#8220;non-criminal detainees&#8221; held by immigration officers had gone up more than 2,000% since Trump took office. She went on to share the most recent polling data stating that President Trump was slightly underwater on his handling of immigration — 45% approved, and 55% disapproved.
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The DHS struck back in an X post, however, and contested the data Brennan had put forth.
&#8220;WRONG. ~ 70% of illegal aliens arrested have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions. Does CBS really want us to release accused murderers and rapists back on the streets?&#8221; the DHS post read. &#8220;But @FaceTheNation is right about one thing: our deportation operations are at a RECORD HIGH.&#8221;
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WRONG. ~ 70% of illegal aliens arrested have pending criminal charges or criminal convictions.
Does CBS really want us to release accused murderers and rapists back on the streets?
But <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FaceTheNation</a> is right about one thing: our deportation operations are at a RECORD HIGH. <a href="https://t.co/JFQ044rfZe">https://t.co/JFQ044rfZe</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1992972952313249990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A number of others pushed back as well, criticizing Brennan&#8217;s efforts to frame the illegal actions of illegal immigrants as &#8220;less than&#8221; when compared to others who had broken the law.
&#8220;100 percent of them are in the U.S. illegally. The real headline should be &#8216;Biden and Mayorkas allowed tens of thousands of violent criminal illegals to remain in the country,&#8217; but these propagandists aren’t about to go there,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/ThePowersThatBe/status/1992939864074166750">one said</a>.

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