The Trump administration on Thursday blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Donald Trump, according to a U.S. government file seen by Reuters.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, entered the U.S. on September 8, 2021, under Operation Allies Welcome. The resettlement program was set up by Joe Biden after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 that led to the rapid collapse of the Afghan government and the country’s takeover by the Taliban.

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    That’s embarrassing but have you considered not leaving all your local Afghan translators, informants, and fixers behind to get tortured and killed by the Taliban when you left? No?

    “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

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    I mean…this is just another in the line of examples (that will get much longer) of Trump just saying what he wished happened, instead of what actually happened. Kirk shooter, ICE shooter etc

    “The shooter was an immigrant from a poor country to we must ban all immigration from poor counties”. He doesn’t expect it to become relevant that the shooter was a lunatic hired by the CIA and imported by his own administration.

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    They have been screaming Biden for everything. Every problem the makeup wearing pedophile creates, is Bidens fault. He will never accept reality or responsibility. He is too far gone mentally.

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    Their listeners don’t know that and don’t care, and the admin knows it. All they have to do is blame Biden, and they’re scot free.

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      Wouldn’t matter if they knew it. Everyone alive knows trump raped children but the percentage of people who care is less than 99.9% by far, contrary to any expectation one would have in an even slightly sane world.

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      Oh they don’t pay… They manipulate and pressure like a Mafia until you comply.

      They probably do it through algorithms and tracking via datamining.

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      Gotta have that false flag because they thought we would be rioting by now and they are itching to have that martial law.

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      Basically every false flag ever claimed is bullshit, however in this case I’d be hard pressed to deny this being a likely real one. The cartoon evil on display in public leads me to believe there are probably hundreds or thousands of evil things done which we don’t (and may never) know about.

      Trump makes it impossible not to assume he’s committed every felony in existence many times. It’s so extreme that he managed to be a billionaire who also was convicted of over 30 felonies. It’s almost like he tried to see how many crimes he could get away with like it’s a video game high score or something. Imagine if some day he magically was tried and convicted for everything you can prove he did. I’ve zero doubt he’d be facing several life sentences.

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        False flags have happened a bunch of times over the years.

        We did one to start the war in Vietnam. Nazis did the with the reichstag fire

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          Notice I said “basically”. It’s not my fault that 99 times out of 100 these claims come from morons like Alex Jones.

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      Given their rate of projectionconfessions and widespread belief of democratic deep state false flag operations it’s more likely than not

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    …“before allowing him to enter the U.S. in 2021.”…“Lakanwal applied for asylum in December 2024 and was approved on April 23 of this year, three months after Trump took office.” WHICH IS IT? EDIT: oh okay i get it now. He came to the US in 2021, applied for asylum in 2024. its actually very clear and I just need more coffee.

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      wouldnt blame ya, the writing sucks. They could have ended with “was approved on April 23 of this year, during the Trump administration”.