It’s taken less than a year for a sense of chaos and confusion to descend upon Donald Trump’s second spin in the White House — at least in his home base in Washington, D.C.

Barely a week after the end of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, the fall-out from the never-ending Jeffrey Epstein saga and Trump’s bafflingly feel-good meeting with nemesis Zohran Mamdani, Washington is now convulsing from a shooting yesterday of two National Guard troops mere moments from the Oval Office.

While details of the attack remain murky, the identity of the shooter is now clear: 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the US in 2021.

The specifics around Lakanwal’s brief history in the U.S. reveal the very chaos and dysfunction that both propelled Trump back to the pr

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