‘They Must Go Back’: Leavitt Says National Guard Shooting Shows Trump’s Mass Deportations Must Continue

Alex Griffing Dec 1st, 2025, 2:20 pm

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt began her Monday briefing with a stunning political attack on former President Joe Biden, blaming him directly for the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., ahead of Thanksgiving.

Leavitt said the shooting was part of the “deadly consequences” of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, given the shooter was an Afghan national given admitted into the U.S. by the Biden administration. Leavitt ignored the fact that the Trump administration later granted him asylum based on the Biden administration’s vetting.

Leavitt went on to declare that the shooting is further evidence that Presi

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