The 20-year-old National Guard member shot near the White House on Wednesday has died, President Donald Trump announced during a live speech on Thursday evening.

Trump, who is spending Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, announced Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom’s death during a live-streamed call with service members.

Praising Beckstrom as “magnificent” and “outstanding,” the president, 79, said he had heard of her passing just moments before his address and stated plainly, “She’s dead. Not with us.”

Trump began his speech by speaking of the “anguish and the horror of our entire nation at the terrorist attack yesterday,” noting that the targeted National Guard members had been deployed as part of his task force to clamp down on crime in the capital. He claimed that “until yesterday, we liter

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