Making the National Guard into Mall Cops, gardeners. Trump goes fuzzy, calling reporters 'stupid'

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Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025 Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025 at 5:39:49am PST

Making the military into media production extras, Trump can do things in DC he hasn’t been able to do elsewhere in the country. We deport. You decide.

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Nothing in her mission suggested she would die on a street corner while performing what commanders often call a “presence patrol.” These patrols—designed to deter local crime by providing a visible military presence to supplement police actions—were never intended to resemble combat. They are routine, steadying missions, carried out in a city where monuments shine and tourists jog with earbuds in place. Yet it was during one of those seemingly benign duties, on the day before Thanksgiving, that Spc. Beckstrom and another soldier were attacked by a gun-wielding assailant. Both soldiers were likely caught completely off-guard. Both Army National Guard Specialist Beckstrom and her teammate, Air National Guard Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe were grievously wounded. She died the next day. He remains hospitalized in critical condition.

For most Americans, this tragedy will be a headline that soon fades. But for those in her unit, it will divide their service, and likely their lives, into “before” and “after.” Soldiers know that feeling. I certainly do.

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Now only did White House pool reporters not stick up for their colleague who Trump repeatedly called “stupid” but you can hear them thanking Trump a few minutes later after he ended the Q&A. Sad stuff.

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Nov 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM

The alleged shooter was a vetted CIA operative in Afghanistan during the war, who later fled to the U.S. Trump's admin vetted him again in April & granted his asylum. Why did a former CIA operative, with asylum status & a family of 5, shoot 2 National Guardsmen in D.C.?