Updated 30-Nov-2025: See Debbie Wasserman's similar comment next
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Did Trump’s ‘political’ stunt of deploying that National Guard unnecessarily endanger the National Guard members’ lives?
The Atlantic colmunist and national security analyst for TV media, Juliette Kayyem, thinks so. She says that it was an unnecessary stunt that culminated in the shooting of two Guard members Wednesday.
"There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military — one of which is the risk of endangering them," she says. They basically have nothing to do all day other than hang out in the streets like stitting ducks in a non-combat zone, simply so the senile Moron can claim he's fighting crime. With him, it's the image that counts, not the substance. But in a country where any asshole can buy a gun and walk into a school and mass murder children, the Guardsmen and Guardswomen become easy targets.
Just like his targeted assassinations of fishermen in the Caribbean under the guise of combating drug smuggling. No one knows if these murdered people in the open sea are fishermen or drug smugglers, as no evidence is presented. But the black-and-white images of boats getting blown up in the ocean are welcomed by his moronic MAGA followers.
The Atlantic contributing writer Juliette Kayyem said Trump endangered U.S. National Guard soldiers when he deployed to Washington, D.C., for a political stunt.
Trump called the shooting of the two members in DC a "crime against the entire country" and said the "animal" who committed the murder would pay the "steepest possible price." This highly charged comment on the killing of guardswoman Sarah Beckstrom, while her fellow guardsman is fighting for his life, reflects Trump's feeling of guilt for causing their tragedy. Since they are not really fighting a war - they are rather trying incompetently to play police - it is difficult for the Moron to justify his deploying them. In fact, relatives of the slain Guardswoman, say that she had confided in them her thought that the deployment was "pointless".
Kayyem argued the tragedy was avoidable because Trump was warned not to station troops in the city in the first place. "The troops, deployed in an effort to reduce crime, are untrained in law enforcement; their days are spent cleaning up trash and walking the streets in uniform. Commanders, in a memo that was included in litigation challenging the high-visibility mission in D.C., argued that this could put them in danger," she wrote.
Kayyem added that Trump’s decision was merely a way to attack his "political" opponents and not a good use of U.S. military members.
"The National Guard has been deployed as part of the White House’s political attacks on cities run by Democrats, and the Guard members are vulnerable because politics is not a military mission," Kayyem continued... Morale is low among part-time volunteer soldiers, who have had to leave home to patrol the streets of an American city that Trump doesn’t like."
The "animal ", as it were, would’ve never been here if not for incompetent Kash Patel's FBI dereliction in granting asylum to the killer because of improperly vetting Afghan refugees who escaped Kabul with US troops. Patel is very busy flying his girlfriend on FBI and government planes all over the country to attend concerts, football games and parties. The combination of "marketing" deployment of troops on US soil and the incompetence of the Trump administration is a very dangerous mix that allowed unvetted criminals to cause harm to US troops. The killing in DC is no different from the mass killings in schools, churches, bars, etc. that take place every day in America, perpetrated by US-born Americans. Blaming refugees is disgusting racism and xenophobia.
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Rep. Wasserman Schultz says Trump should blame self for putting National Guard in harm’s way with DC crackdown
Alexander Hall
Sat, November 29, 2025
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., former chair of the Democratic National Committee, suggested Friday that President Donald Trump is to blame for the death of a member of the National Guard.
Multiple left-wing commentators argued that the ambush-style shooting of National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe Wednesday only happened because of Trump’s orders to station the National Guard in U.S. cities.
On Friday, as the nation was still reeling from the shooting, CNN host Sara Sidner spoke to Schultz about the tragic incident.
The shooting, Schultz said, "begs the question, would an individual have flown across the country to target law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C.? And, I mean, the answer is likely no. So, why wasn‘t the president‘s first thought, 'Wow, you know, maybe I should reconsider deploying military troops in the nation‘s capital or in any city?'
"Particularly not when they haven‘t coordinated closely with the leadership of these cities and when we have law enforcement that are quite capable of handling the criminal justice issues that are — that we need law enforcement to focus on, and not our military."
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., blasted President Donald Trump, arguing he should blame his own choices for putting National Guard members in harm's way.
Trump said he launched the crackdown because local law enforcement had failed to handle the amount of crime in some of America’s most famous cities.
Since the shooting Wednesday, carried out by an Afghan national, according to authorities, Trump has called to halt mass migration from the "Third World" and to initiate a "reverse migration" plan.
Even before that, Sidner noted that "days before the shooting, the public learned through reporting that the Trump administration had planned to review and reinterview refugees that came in during the Biden administration."
"I just think that any administration needs to be careful about making sweeping generalizations," Wasserman Schultz responded. "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."
National Guard members stand together behind yellow tape, after two National Guard members were shot near the White House in Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 2025.
Trump should blame himself for putting the National Guard in harm’s way, Schultz argued.
"The president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies. We need to make sure that we don‘t have our military deployed in our cities, doing — handling law enforcement responsibilities," she said. "We certainly need to make sure we always have the proper and appropriate and tight, tight vetting processes, and those should be reviewed. But it‘s never the president‘s fault or his policies when it comes to his reaction, and it‘s pretty disgusting."
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