Whoopi Goldberg claimed on Monday that if any American service members were charged with &#8220;war crimes&#8221; in relation to drug boat strikes, it would be because War Secretary Pete Hegseth had &#8220;set them up&#8221; to take the fall.
Goldberg and her cohosts on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; insisted that the strikes were illegal and argued that in ordering them, Secretary Hegseth was putting the service members who executed those orders at risk of prosecution.
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&#8220;I can&#8217;t speak to the law of it, I&#8217;m not a geopolitical expert, but in terms of the law of it, you&#8217;re right, Sara, that is why those Army vets explained do not follow — you do not have to follow illegal orders,&#8221; Sunny Hostin said.
&#8220;You know why? Because if this is deemed to have been war crimes, which by all accounts right now there are seven sources that said Pete Hegseth did say &#8216;kill them all,&#8217; even after there were two survivors,&#8221; Hostin continued. &#8220;What you are supposed to do under international law, you are supposed to take those fighters as war criminals, prisoners of war, and you are supposed to give them refuge and you&#8217;re supposed to take care of them and then you are supposed to put them into a court of law. Instead, they killed them.&#8221;
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Hostin went on to say that there could be legal consequences for those who gave the orders and for those who carried them out.
&#8220;That means the person who gave the order can be held accountable and put in prison, and that means the person that conducted — the people who conducted the orders, that pulled the trigger are also responsible and can be held accountable,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, now you have people that are serving their countries, that are serving this country as patriots, perhaps following an illegal order and then themselves can be court-martialed. Imagine that.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, what he has done is he&#8217;s set them up,&#8221; Goldberg declared. &#8220;He has set them up.&#8221;
Hostin echoed comments made on Sunday by Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mark-kelly-encourages-active-military-to-question-orders-in-real-time">Mark Kelly</a> (D-AZ), who told &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker that he worried some service members would only learn that they had carried out illegal orders after the fact, when it was too late for them to do anything about it.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt upended a legacy media narrative on Monday when she revealed that War Secretary Pete Hegseth had not given the order to execute a second strike on a drug boat, and who, in fact, had given it.
Leavitt dumped cold water on a story — published Saturday by The Washington Post — that quickly became the talk of the Sunday political shows. The story detailed what had happened in the aftermath of the first kinetic strike on narco-terrorists, and alleged that a second strike order was given, on Hegseth&#8217;s authority, to &#8220;kill them all&#8221; when the first hit left two survivors clinging to the wreckage of the boat.
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Leavitt was pressed on the story during Monday&#8217;s briefing, when CBS News reporter Gabe Gutierrez asked her to clarify whether the administration was denying that a second strike had taken place or simply denying that Hegseth had given the order for a second strike to be carried out.
&#8220;The latter is true,&#8221; Leavitt declared. &#8220;And I have a statement to read for you here. &#8216;President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have made it clear that presidentially-designated narco-terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war.&#8221;
&#8220;With respect to the strikes in question on September 2nd, Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated,&#8221; Leavitt continued.
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The press secretary jabbed at former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, adding, &#8220;Under the previous administration, there was enough fentanyl trafficked into our country to kill every American man, woman, and child many times over. That is why you have seen a drastic difference in this administration’s policy with respect to the last. It is one of the many reasons the American public reelected this president and support this Secretary of War in conducting these strikes.&#8221;
Gutierrez asked once more: &#8220;Admiral Bradley was the one that gave an order for a second strike?”
&#8220;And he was well within his authority to do so,&#8221; Leavitt shot back.

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Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) claimed on Sunday that he was worried American troops might only learn after the fact that an order they had carried out was unlawful.
Kelly, already under fire for his participation in a video that encouraged members of the military to question the validity of their orders in real time, doubled down during a Sunday morning appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221;
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Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) went on NBC and told active-duty U.S. military members that if they follow orders to strike drug-smuggling boats they might be committing illegal acts and could be prosecuted later.
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&#8220;I want to put the question to you,&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker began. &#8220;If you were still in uniform, if you received an order to strike suspected drug boats overseas and kill everybody onboard, would you refuse that order in real time?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, let me start by saying I&#8217;ve sunk two boats — two ships,&#8221; Kelly replied, referencing his own actions during the first Gulf War. &#8220;Never once did I question whether those orders were legal or illegal. People can tell the difference — should be able to tell the difference between something that is unlawful and something that is lawful.&#8221;
&#8220;If I was ever given an unlawful order, I would refuse — you know, even if you have time, you can certainly go to the Judge Advocate Generals, the lawyers, and have a discussion about it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t have time, you just say simply I&#8217;m not going to do that, that&#8217;s against the law.&#8221;
&#8220;It puts a lot of burden on the troops to make a decision in real time,&#8221; Welker observed.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a tremendous amount of burden on officers in the military,&#8221; Kelly agreed. &#8220;But that is their responsibility, and they can figure out — you know, a reasonable person can tell something that is legal and something that is illegal.&#8221;
Welker asked again, directly, whether Kelly would refuse the orders to strike drug boats.
Kelly did not offer a definitive answer, but instead said that he worried about troops who &#8220;may find out down the road that they did something that is illegal&#8221; because they acted on an order that reflected &#8220;the whims of a president&#8221; rather than law.
Thus far, there has been no <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/does-the-president-have-the-authority-to-strike-venezuelan-drug-boats">real consensus</a> regarding the legality of the strikes.

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President Donald Trump laid into a radical left congressional candidate from Tennessee on Sunday, blasting Democrat Aftyn Behn as &#8220;a woman who hates Christianity, will take away your guns, wants Open Borders, Transgender for everybody, men in women’s sports, and openly disdains Country music.&#8221;
Trump delivered the verbal smackdown in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115640171509477265">Truth Social post</a> — in which he also threw his full support behind her opponent, Republican Matt Van Epps — over a viral audio clip in which she&#8217;d declared her hatred for Nashville, bachelorettes, and even country music. His post comes just ahead of the special election in Tennessee&#8217;s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday.
&#8220;I am asking all America First Patriots in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, who haven’t voted yet, to please GET OUT AND VOTE on Election Day, Tuesday, December 2nd, for a phenomenal Candidate, Matt Van Epps,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s post began. &#8220;Matt is fighting against a woman who hates Christianity, will take away your guns, wants Open Borders, Transgender for everybody, men in women’s sports, and openly disdains Country music. She said all of these things precisely, and without question — IT’S ON TAPE!&#8221;
Trump warned voters that they needed to get to the polls, adding, &#8220;Do not take this Race for granted. The Radical Left Democrats are spending a fortune to beat one of the best Candidates we’ve ever had, Matt Van Epps! You can win this Election for Matt. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR MATT VAN EPPS, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!&#8221;
Behn raised eyebrows with her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-tennessee-dem-aftyn-behn-offers-proof-she-doesnt-hate-nashville">anti-Nashville</a> rant: &#8220;‘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 … I hate it.&#8221;
She tried to do a little damage control after the audio clip went viral, claiming on the &#8220;Breaking Points&#8221; podcast that she could not possibly hate country music.
&#8220;So, I’m going to say something I haven’t said,” Behn told the hosts. “And I think it’s funny, I hope my parents don’t kill me, but I do not hate country music. I was conceived after a George Strait concert, so … I feel personally attacked.&#8221;
Behn also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-dem-candidate-aftyn-behn-i-dont-want-children-i-want-power">made headlines</a> with another audio clip of herself describing a recurring dream in which she stood up in a crowded cafeteria full of women and shouted, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want children, I want power!&#8221;

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The Washington Post ran with an anonymously-sourced <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/">hit piece</a> claiming that War Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered Seal Team 6, when executing a strike against narco-terrorists in the Caribbean, to &#8220;kill them all&#8221; — and legacy media outlets fell all over themselves platforming guests who would question whether or not such an order, if given, was legal.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Once the story began circulating on Saturday, Hegseth <a href="https://x.com/SecWar/status/1994552598142038358">addressed it directly</a>, saying, &#8220;As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland.&#8221;
&#8220;As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be &#8216;lethal, kinetic strikes.&#8217; The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people,&#8221; Hegseth continued. &#8220;Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization.&#8221;
The focus across media outlets was on what happened after the initial missile strike: operators watched a live feed that showed two survivors clinging to the wreckage of the boat. Then, according to The Washington Post&#8217;s report, a second strike was carried out in order to comply with the directive to &#8220;kill them all&#8221; — and the legality of that second strike in particular was where they focused the majority of the attention.
On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abc-personalities-run-with-wapo-hit-piece-on-hegseth-ignore-war-secs-response">Jonathan Karl</a> brought in global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz to discuss the issue, and she questioned whether the second strike, reportedly carried out when the two survivors were not known to be an &#8220;imminent threat&#8221; might stand in violation of the &#8220;rules of war.&#8221;
&#8220;Did those two men clinging to the side of the boat pose an imminent threat?” she asked, and she wondered aloud whether the order to strike a second time had been given with the knowledge that survivors were hanging on for dear life, and whether the lawyers had been consulted about the legality of such a strike.
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“Did those two men clinging to the side of the boat pose an imminent threat?”<a href="https://twitter.com/MarthaRaddatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarthaRaddatz</a> weighs in on the Washington Post reporting of a military strike that allegedly targeted two survivors in the Caribbean. <a href="https://t.co/qh5zs8hdWr">https://t.co/qh5zs8hdWr</a> <a href="https://t.co/alnukF1hlq">pic.twitter.com/alnukF1hlq</a>
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Karl then set up Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) with the framing of the second strike as a &#8220;war crime.&#8221; Van Hollen agreed that it would certainly be a &#8220;war crime,&#8221; but only if one accepted the Trump administration&#8217;s assertion that the United States was, in fact, at war with the cartels.
&#8220;But it could be worse than that. If that theory is wrong, then it&#8217;s plain murder,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But even if you accept their legal theory, then it is a war crime.&#8221;
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“I do believe that the Secretary of Defense should be held accountable for giving those kind of orders.”
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) took the same position as Raddatz, arguing that he could not see how two men hanging onto wreckage in the water amounted to an &#8220;imminent threat.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to believe that two people on a raft trying to survive would pose an imminent threat,&#8221; he said, but argued that he didn&#8217;t believe Hegseth would give an order to kill survivors after an initial strike.
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On CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) argued that he was unsure of the legality of any of the strikes against narco-terrorists. &#8220;It’s time for Congress to rein in a president who is deciding to wage war on his own say so, which is not what the Constitution allows,&#8221; he said.
He also argued that a second strike &#8220;rises to the level of a war crime if it&#8217;s true.&#8221;
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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) says the “shoddy” legal rationale the Trump administration provided Congress for its military strikes on alleged drug boats “was not at all persuasive that these are legal actions.”
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On CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) claimed that he would have disregarded the order to carry out the second strike.
&#8220;I&#8217;m a guy who — I have sunk two ships &#8230; during the first Gulf War,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;I never in that situation questioned whether those strikes were legal. We were given an order to do this, it was a time of war.&#8221;
Kelly went on to say that he, like Kaine, questioned the legality of the strikes from the start.
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A second strike on top of that — particularly when the men in the water supposedly posed no immediate threat — would rise to the level of a &#8220;war crime,&#8221; Kelly said.
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On Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Big Weekend Show,&#8221; however, Marine Corps veteran Joey Jones pushed back and argued that an “imminent threat” does not always have to come in the form of guns pointed at American citizens.
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“Spare me the tears over terrorists when you don’t cry over Americans who’ve died from them. Spare me the tears over terrorists when you didn’t have anything to say when President Obama droned American citizens.”
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Jones noted that if the survivors were able to radio others in their drug trafficking network, that could be just as grave a threat — and could also quickly result in men with guns showing up to defend them.

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National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett raved about the holiday sales already underway as he told Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy that Americans had just delivered &#8220;the best Black Friday that we&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;
Hassett explained on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends: Weekend&#8221; that the end of the government shutdown had likely inspired a boost in consumer confidence as the holidays approached — and argued that wage growth under President Donald Trump compared to during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration was also likely playing a role in getting consumers through the doors.
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&#8220;The fact is that we just had the best Black Friday that we&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; Hassett began. &#8220;And it&#8217;s not just because people are out there, you know, taking debt on their credit cards. It&#8217;s because incomes are way up under President Trump. They dropped about $3000 a person, $6000 a family, under Joe Biden and it&#8217;s up $1500 a person so far this year.&#8221;
&#8220;And with all that extra money, and with the government shutdown over so that people feel comfortable going back to stores, we&#8217;re seeing a really blow-out Thanksgiving and Christmas coming our way,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think all the retailers expect that both online and in-store sales are going to be the highest we&#8217;ve ever seen — and the point is that&#8217;s happening even though inflation is way, way down under President Trump, you know it was 5-10% under Biden and right now it&#8217;s running at about 2.5%, and it&#8217;s not — it&#8217;s way lower than wage growth, so people&#8217;s incomes are going up by way more than inflation and that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re seeing these blowout sales.&#8221;
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Hassett delivered the same message on CBS News, pushing back on the narrative that Americans would only be spending more this Christmas because things had gotten more expensive.
&#8220;I think the folks who were saying, ‘Well, maybe people are going to be anxious about going back and getting presents for the kids and so on,’ they have been disproven this weekend,&#8221; he said
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Top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett says Black Friday spending increased this year, although early forecasts indicated that if spending was higher, it would likely be due to higher prices.
“I think the folks who were saying, ‘Well, maybe people are going to be anxious… <a href="https://t.co/UQev2irJkl">pic.twitter.com/UQev2irJkl</a>
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ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl spent part of Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;This Week&#8221; talking about a Washington Post hit piece attacking War Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The story in question alleged that Hegseth had ordered a second strike on a boat full of narco-terrorists when the first had left two survivors.
Hegseth responded to the story in a <a href="https://x.com/SecWar/status/1994552598142038358">lengthy post</a> on X, saying in part, &#8220;As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland. As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be &#8216;lethal, kinetic strikes.&#8217; The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people. Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization.&#8221;
But when Karl raised the issue on Sunday morning, he opted to speak instead with ABC&#8217;s global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, who has reported extensively on the military but has never served herself.
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“Did those two men clinging to the side of the boat pose an imminent threat?”<a href="https://twitter.com/MarthaRaddatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarthaRaddatz</a> weighs in on the Washington Post reporting of a military strike that allegedly targeted two survivors in the Caribbean. <a href="https://t.co/qh5zs8hdWr">https://t.co/qh5zs8hdWr</a> <a href="https://t.co/alnukF1hlq">pic.twitter.com/alnukF1hlq</a>
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Raddatz cited The Washington Post report and said that the second strike — executed when the two survivors were apparently clinging to the wreckage of the destroyed boat — had been ordered based on verbal instruction from Hegseth himself to &#8220;kill everybody.&#8221;
&#8220;Did those two men clinging to the side of the boat pose an imminent threat?&#8221; she asked, going on to wonder whether the order to strike a second time had been given with the knowledge that survivors were hanging on for dear life, and whether the lawyers had been consulted about the legality of such a strike.
The conversation focused on the idea that attacking when there was no &#8220;imminent threat&#8221; would be a violation of the &#8220;rules of war.&#8221;
But as Marine Corps veteran and Fox News personality Joey Jones said on &#8220;The Big Weekend Show,&#8221; an &#8220;imminent threat&#8221; does not always have to come in the form of guns pointed at American citizens.
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🚨 Joey Jones just ended the left with one quote:
“Spare me the tears over terrorists when you don’t cry over Americans who’ve died from them. Spare me the tears over terrorists when you didn’t have anything to say when President Obama droned American citizens.”
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Jones noted that if the survivors were able to radio others in their drug trafficking network, that could be just as grave a threat — and could also quickly result in men with guns showing up to defend them.

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ABC Personalities Run With WaPo Hit Piece On Hegseth, Ignore War Sec’s Response

ABC Personalities Run With WaPo Hit Piece On Hegseth, Ignore War Sec's Response

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At least two media outlets responded to an Afghan national&#8217;s attack on two National Guardsmen by fretting over how President Donald Trump&#8217;s reaction might hurt refugees.
The suspect in the shooting, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national admitted to the United States in 2021, in the aftermath of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. On Wednesday, he opened fire on two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House, killing one, Sarah Beckstrom and leaving the other, Andrew Wolfe, fighting for his life with critical injuries.
Trump, a vocal critic of the Biden administration&#8217;s Afghanistan failures, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115625421503636680">quickly promised</a> to &#8220;fix&#8221; the problems created when Biden allowed &#8220;hundreds of thousands of people&#8221; to come into the United States from Afghanistan, &#8220;totally unvetted and unchecked.&#8221;
The president also vowed to &#8220;permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries&#8221; and said that he planned to &#8220;deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.&#8221;
Rather than cover the story straight or report on the risk that Biden&#8217;s refugee policies pose to American citizens, the Associated Press telegraphed concern for Afghan refugees in the United States.
&#8220;Trump administration plan to review Biden-era refugees sparks worry and uncertainty,&#8221; one AP headline <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-refugees-chaos-fear-biden-immigration-memo-review-4991f722e9484816f6ea4cc705a6cd63">read</a>.
<blockquote>The Trump administration’s <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/article/trumo-refugees-memo-biden-review-82cdbae263a903c6dcf25c2e04f50684" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA">plan to review all refugees admitted</a> to the United States under the Biden administration is weighing heavily on people who could be affected by the evaluation, fueling uncertainty and worry among people who believed their status was secured.</blockquote>
Another headline <a href="https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-shooting-refugee-reactions-368d69586a28dabf47bf8e7025946068">reported</a> that &#8220;Refugee groups worry about backlash after shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC.&#8221;
<blockquote>Many Afghans living in the U.S. are afraid to leave their houses, fearing they’ll be swept up by immigration officials or attacked with hate speech, said Shawn VanDiver, president of the San Diego-based group #AfghanEvac, a group that helps resettle Afghans who assisted the U.S. during the two-decade war.
“They’re terrified. It’s insane,” VanDiver told The Associated Press Thursday. “People are acting xenophobic because of one deranged man. He doesn’t represent all Afghans. He represents himself.”</blockquote>
Yet another piece <a href="https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-shooting-afghan-operation-allies-welcome-b11c48fb0b807e8f519c266e2a004d8e">suggested</a> that Trump was in the wrong for criticizing the Biden administration for bringing unvetted Afghans into the United States in the first place. &#8220;Trump criticizes the program that brought Afghan refugees to the US who fought the Taliban,&#8221; it read.
<blockquote>The program, called <a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-jersey-united-states-kabul-taliban-273f9ebedfdd94739d6dbe77d7cbc3db" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA">Operation Allies Welcome</a>, was created after the 2021 decision to leave Afghanistan following 20 years of American intervention and billions of dollars of aid.
Democratic President Joe Biden, who oversaw the withdrawal started by his predecessor — Republican President Donald Trump — said the U.S. owed it to the interpreters and translators, the fighters and drivers and others who opposed the Taliban to give them a safe place outside of Afghanistan.</blockquote>
The New York Times was slightly more overt in its adoption of the &#8220;Trump pounces&#8221; theme, with one headline <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/politics/trump-national-guard-shooting.html">asserting</a> &#8220;Trump Uses National Guard Shooting to Cast Suspicion on Refugees.&#8221;
<blockquote>President Trump claimed there were &#8220;a lot of problems with Afghans,&#8221; without providing evidence, as his administration announced that it was implementing new immigration guidelines.</blockquote>
But as those outlets and others have chosen to ignore, Army Ranger veteran and Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell warned the Biden administration in real time, telling anyone who would listen that bringing unvetted Afghans into the United States was a recipe for disaster.
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At the time, he <a href="https://x.com/Surabees/status/1994030582116876620">told the story</a> of an Afghan interpreter who had been working with his platoon for more than a year before betraying them, putting them on a path where a land mine injured several and killed one of Parnell&#8217;s men.
&#8220;After that mission was over, during our After Action Report (AAR), we found out that our interpreter — who had been with us every step of the way, someone who we thought was our friend — we learned that he was working with an Iranian IED cell in Pakistan, and coordinated the placement of that mine,&#8221; Parnell explained.
But Parnell&#8217;s warning fell on deaf ears. Just one day before the deadly shooting cast a pall over a nation preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, another Afghan national <a href="https://x.com/Brooketaylortv/status/1994807675767398902">was arrested</a> for making a terroristic threat&#8221; and posting it on TikTok.
Fox News national correspondent Brooke Taylor reported that Mohammad Dawood Alokozay made it clear in the video that he was building a bomb and had intended to target the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Like the shooting suspect in custody in D.C., Alokozay was brought into the United States in the aftermath of the Afghanistan withdrawal under Biden&#8217;s Operation Allies Welcome. He was granted legal permanent resident status in September 2022.

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The suspect in Wednesday&#8217;s horrific shooting in Washington, D.C., is expected to survive according to a local law enforcement official.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, opened fire on National Guard soldiers just blocks from the White House and struck two of them, one fatally. Another soldier returned fire, injuring and then subduing Lakanwal at the scene. An unnamed law enforcement official told <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-news/rahmanullah-lakanwal-expected-to-survive-after-dc-national-guard-shooting/">The New York Post</a> that the Afghan national had undergone surgery but was expected to make a full recovery.
&#8220;I think the guy’s going to live. Nobody’s going to be able to say anything and he’s going to stand trial,&#8221; the official said, adding, &#8220;I know that he underwent surgery the night it happened.&#8221;
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Meanwhile, SPC Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia has succumbed to her injuries — and Andrew Wolfe, the other National Guardsman who was shot, continues to fight for his life. Following the news that Beckstrom had died, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced that the charges against Lakanwal had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charges-upgraded-against-afghan-shooting-suspect-after-national-guard-soldier-dies">upgraded</a> to include first-degree murder.
&#8220;There are certainly many more charges to come, but we are upgrading the initial charges of assault to murder in the first degree,&#8221; Pirro said. &#8220;It is a premeditated murder. There was an ambush with a gun toward people who didn’t know what was coming.&#8221;
President Donald Trump, upon learning that Lakanwal was an Afghan national who entered the United States  in 2021 following former President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, took immediate action and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-blistering-thanksgiving-post-trump-promises-to-stop-migration-from-all-third-world-countries">declared a halt</a> to &#8220;migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover.&#8221;
Trump also called for a review of the vetting process for those who entered the United States during and after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and promised that his administration would &#8220;deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.&#8221;

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Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), attempted to blame President Donald Trump for the deadly shooting that took place in Washington, D.C., the day before Thanksgiving.
The suspect is an Afghan national, let into the United States during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, who opened fire on National Guard troops in the nation&#8217;s capital. One, SPC. Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, has died as a result of her injuries. But according to Wasserman Schultz, Trump was to blame for the horrific ambush attack.
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Rep Wasserman-Schultz attempts to blame Trump for NG shoot*ng, cites deployments in cities and &#8220;gun violence” as causes:
“The president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies&#8230;and it’s pretty disgusting.&#8221;
This is what they’re actually going with here. Sick. <a href="https://t.co/BX5TAd367V">pic.twitter.com/BX5TAd367V</a>
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Wasserman Schultz, responding to President Trump&#8217;s plan to go back and revisit the vetting process for the Afghan nationals who were brought into the United States as refugees, noted that in order for someone to have slipped through the cracks, there had to have been failures at a number of levels.
&#8220;We need to make sure that we have tight and appropriate and proper vetting. If there were gaps that admitted this person, they would have failed over multiple levels of gaps, and this individual was trusted enough to participate in assisting our military during the war in Afghanistan,&#8221; Wasserman Schultz said.
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She then pivoted to blame Trump, adding, &#8220;The president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies. We need to make sure that we don&#8217;t have our military deployed in our cities, handling law enforcement responsibilities, and we need to make sure that we address gun violence. We certainly need to make sure that we always have the proper and appropriate and tight vetting processes and those should be reviewed, but it&#8217;s never the president&#8217;s fault or his policies when it comes to his reaction, and it’s pretty disgusting.&#8221;
What Wasserman Schultz failed to acknowledge, however, was the fact that people like Pentagon spokesman and Army Ranger veteran <a href="https://x.com/Surabees/status/1994030582116876620">Sean Parnell</a> had sounded the alarm even at the time, warning that some Afghans who had been trusted and had worked with American troops on the ground had betrayed them when it mattered.

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Even as President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration continues to deal with the fallout from former President Joe Biden&#8217;s refusal to enforce federal immigration law, officials at the Department of Homeland Security also find themselves taking on the near herculean task of debunking the fake sob stories pushed by Democrats and media outlets to make them look bad.
Kilmar Abrego-Garcia — the gang member who quickly became a Democrat darling when the Trump administration accidentally deported him to the one country it shouldn&#8217;t have — was just the tip of the iceberg. Since the large-scale deportations began, Democrats and media personalities have glommed onto the stories of any illegal aliens that tug at the heartstrings — whether or not the story is true does not appear to figure into their calculus.
On Sunday, for example, CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan went ahead with a claim that nearly half — 48% — of the illegal aliens currently being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were being held without any charges or deportation orders.
DHS swooped in with the fact-check: &#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? 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 Saturday post from Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) referred to federal agents as kidnappers and parroted a story about a teen taken into custody at school.
&#8220;Absolutely horrific. ICE detained and abducted a minor—a high school student—who the family identified as a US citizen. ICE is terrorizing our communities—I’m fighting for answers and accountability. This is just wrong,&#8221; he complained.
But a quick response from DHS suggested that Merkley either had not bothered to check the facts or did not care to do so.
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&#8220;Senator, you&#8217;re missing the facts. This 17-year-old used his vehicle to violently ATTACK ICE and Border Patrol agents,&#8221; the agency posted.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s a timeline of the events: On November 21, U.S. Border Patrol agents in Yamhill County, Oregon were being followed for several miles by a blue Chevy Tahoe. A second vehicle, a Ford F-150 truck, showed up on the scene and colluded with the Chevy Tahoe to barricade the agents, preventing their movement and obstructing them,&#8221; the post continued. &#8220;Border Patrol called for urgent assistance from ICE officers. When ICE officers arrived, the Ford F-150 fled the area.&#8221;
&#8220;USBP and ICE officers approached the Tahoe, ordered the occupants out, and arrested the driver, identified as Isaias Eduardo Soto Elias, a 20-year-old U.S. Citizen, for impeding federal law enforcement officers. Shortly after, another team located the Ford F-150 and arrested the driver, identified as 17-year-old U.S. citizen, also for impeding federal law enforcement officers. Both individuals were transported to the ERO Portland office for further investigation and federal prosecution for impeding federal law enforcement officers,&#8221; the agency concluded.
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Senator, you&#8217;re missing the facts. This 17-year-old used his vehicle to violently ATTACK ICE and Border Patrol agents. Here&#8217;s a timeline of the events:
On November 21, U.S. Border Patrol agents in Yamhill County, Oregon were being followed for several miles by a blue Chevy… <a href="https://t.co/CJAt1176KM">https://t.co/CJAt1176KM</a>
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Governor Roy Cooper (D-NC) did not run with a specific story, but instead issued a generic post in line with his party&#8217;s rubber-stamped narrative: &#8220;I&#8217;ve prosecuted violent criminals and fought to keep them behind bars, so I know the importance of using federal resources to deport violent criminals and keep our borders strong. But randomly sweeping people up based on what they look like, including American citizens and those with no criminal records, risks leaving violent criminals at large while hurting families and the economy.&#8221;
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin fired back, however, explaining, &#8220;Firstly, @RoyCooperNC refused to turn over 1,400 violent criminal illegal aliens to ICE. On his watch, when these public safety threats and predators are released back onto Charlotte’s streets they will reoffend &amp; create more victims. Second, illegal immigration is a crime much like trespassing. And thirdly, claiming there’s racial profiling is absurd and devoid of fact.&#8221;
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Firstly, <a href="https://twitter.com/RoyCooperNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RoyCooperNC</a> refused to turn over 1,400 violent criminal illegal aliens to ICE.
On his watch, when these public safety threats and predators are released back onto Charlotte’s streets they will reoffend &amp; create more victims.
Second, illegal immigration is a crime… <a href="https://t.co/qmObq2By5X">https://t.co/qmObq2By5X</a>
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) <a href="https://twitter.com/TriciaOhio/status/1990580018133577751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) — who became a household name when he flew to El Salvador to have cocktails with gang member Abrego-Garcia — responded to the news that a nail salon owner in his state was set to be deported to Vietnam.
&#8220;Melissa Tran came here on a Green Card at age 11. She&#8217;s since raised 4 kids, started a business, &amp; is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community,&#8221; he insisted.
McLaughlin wasn&#8217;t having it, however.
&#8220;Omitting some pesky facts, Senator. Mong Tuyen Thi Tran is a criminal illegal alien from Vietnam, with criminal convictions including grand larceny, multiple counts of forgery and fraud. An immigration judge issued her a final order of removal in 2004–over 20 years ago. ICE arrested her in May,&#8221; she posted.
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Omitting some pesky facts, Senator.
Mong Tuyen Thi Tran, is a criminal illegal alien from Vietnam, with criminal convictions including grand larceny, multiple counts of forgery and fraud.
An immigration judge issued her a final order of removal in 2004–over 20 years ago. ICE… <a href="https://t.co/WyKXIyNHPQ">https://t.co/WyKXIyNHPQ</a>
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) <a href="https://twitter.com/TriciaOhio/status/1991244099714744492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senator Cory Booker posted another video along with the caption, &#8220;A teenager. A U.S. citizen. Detained by ICE at a courthouse. This isn’t law and order—this is intimidation. It doesn’t protect our communities; it undermines them. It violates the trust people need to safely access the justice system. It wastes law-enforcement resources that should be focused on real dangers, not innocent kids. We must condemn this and demand accountability. America is better than this.&#8221;
Once again, McLaughlin fired back: &#8220;No. This individual was never arrested or taken into custody. On November 20, Homeland Security Investigations targeted a child predator. Officers briefly questioned the individual who resembled the target.&#8221;
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No. This individual was never arrested or taken into custody.
On November 20, Homeland Security Investigations targeted a child predator. Officers briefly questioned the individual who resembled the target. <a href="https://t.co/II00VnwBqE">https://t.co/II00VnwBqE</a>
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) <a href="https://twitter.com/TriciaOhio/status/1992753689325699362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The New Yorker profiled a Jamaican immigrant thusly: &#8220;Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who’d lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. &#8216;It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,&#8217; he said.&#8221;
But as Fox News reporter Bill Melugin pointed out, &#8220;He’s a convicted murderer with a deportation order from a federal immigration judge.&#8221;
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He’s a convicted murderer with a deportation order from a federal immigration judge. <a href="https://t.co/eRayIcWXsv">https://t.co/eRayIcWXsv</a>
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1993384377372623317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Democrats and media have certainly been keeping DHS busy debunking the fake sob stories and dismantling the false narratives — and with Trump encouraging his administration to keep up the deportations, that&#8217;s not likely to change any time soon.

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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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