Vance Claims Vindication After Shooting Suspect ID’ed as Afghan National, Says Friends Were ‘Calling Me a Racist’ for Opposing Refugees

Sean James Nov 26th, 2025, 9:41 pm

Julia Demaree Nikhinson for the AP

Vice President JD Vance said the shooting of two National Guard members by an Afghan national was a “clarifying moment” that proved the friends who were called him “racist” in 2021 for opposing then-President Joe Biden’s bringing hundreds of thousands of Afghans into the U.S. were wrong.

The vice president shared his thoughts soon after Fox News on Wednesday reported the suspected shooter was Rahmanullah Lakanwal. The 29-year-old entered the U.S. from Afghanistan on a visa in 2021, after the U.S. pulled troops out of the country; his permission to stay in the U.S. expired

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