White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt began her Monday briefing with a stunning political attack on former President Joe Biden, blaming him directly for the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., ahead of Thanksgiving.
Leavitt said the shooting was part of the "deadly consequences" of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal, given the shooter was an Afghan national given admitted into the U.S. by the Biden administration. Leavitt ignored the fact that the Trump administration later granted him asylum based on the Biden administration's vetting.
Leavitt went on to declare that the shooting is further evidence that President Donald Trump's mass deportations must continue in order to protect American safety and culture. "These public safety threats are already inside our land, and President Trump was elected on a promise to find and remove them. And he has already taken significant steps and made significant progress towards fulfilling this promise. But there is more work to be done because President Trump believes that he has a sacred obligation to reverse the calamity of mass, unchecked migration into our country," Leavitt argued, adding: