Trump has called in the National Guard to help with his administration’s mass deportation push. In his remarks, he even held up a printed photo of Afghan evacuees crowded onto a military plane during the rushed Kabul evacuation in 2021.
He suggested the shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, who had reportedly served in a CIA-backed Afghan military unit before immigrating to the US, became mentally unstable after the war and the Afghanistan withdrawal. “He went cuckoo. I mean, he went nuts,” the president said. “It happens too often with these people.”
