Three days before an Afghan refugee ambushed two National Guard soldiers in Washington, killing one and critically wounding the other, Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin appeared on ABC News to express her fear that members of the Guard would soon attack innocent civilians. “It makes me incredibly nervous,” Slotkin said , “that we’re about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military, get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians.”

In real life, the Guard did not attack civilians. A civilian attacked the Guard.

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