While the Biden administration hasn’t been widely perceived as mired in scandal or incompetence, that hasn’t deterred the second Trump administration from engaging in a game of blame-shifting, attributing every misstep to its predecessor.
The Trump administration has publicly declared what courts have labeled a dubious crime emergency, seizing this narrative as justification to deploy National Guard troops across American cities.
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In a striking move, Trump’s administration dispatched National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., with the unwitting assistance of red state governors who have allowed Trump to commandeer their military resources at will.
Without Trump’s questionable crime narrative, the West Virginia National Guard would likely have remained uninvolved in D.C., thus avoiding becoming targets for an assailant from Afghanistan.
This individual represents yet another failure of the Trump administration, particularly given that the current president had granted him asylum just months earlier in April.
In the wake of a tragic shooting incident on Wednesday night, Trump and his advisors have been scrambling to spin the narrative to deflect responsibility for their actions.
The aftermath left one member of the West Virginia National Guard dead and another in critical condition, yet DHS Secretary Kristi Noem took to ABC’s This Week to point fingers at Joe Biden.
Noem asserted:
We do believe this individual when they came into the country, we know he was unvetted. He was brought into the country by the Biden administration through Operation Allies Welcome, and then maybe vetted after that but not done well based on what the guidelines were put forward by President Biden. And now since he’s been here, we believe he could have been radicalized in his home community and in his home state.
As we continue to talk to his family and his contacts, more details will be revealed, and we’ll release those when it’s appropriate. But for these individuals brought into our country, it’s a dangerous situation.
If you don’t know who they are, if they’re coming from a country that’s not stable and doesn’t have a government that can help you vet them, that we shouldn’t allow it. And that’s why I’m so grateful that President Trump has taken action in recent days to halt all asylum and processes that bring people into this country until we ensure that we know who these people are.
ABC’s Jon Karl challenged, “So — so you’re saying there was no vetting outside the country? Because we had been told that there had been vetting outside the country. You’re saying that there was no vetting at all by the Biden administration?”
This question sent Noem into a defensive spiral, revealing the fragility of the narrative being constructed.
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