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BREAKING: Two West Virginia National Guard members have died after being shot near the White House, the state's governor says.[image or embed]

" The Associated Press (@apnews.com) Nov 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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... The area is one with a heavy security presence due to its proximity to the White House and other federal institutions.

The shooter is in custody, according to D.C. Metro Police.

NewsNation's Kellie Meyer was on her way back to the White House when she was stopped from going further by police due to the shooting, with barricades being put up near the location of the shooting.

She reported heavy police and Secret Service activity in the area.

President Donald Trump is not currently in residence at the White House, having headed to Mar-a-Lago for the Thanksgiving holiday. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-26 03:13 PM | Reply

Shooters are likely feral Trumpers with their pew pews.

#2 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-11-26 03:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

President Donald Trump is not currently in residence at the White House

Why would he be? That's the work office.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-26 03:27 PM | Reply

Update...

Two West Virginia National Guard members killed near White House, state's governor says
apnews.com

... Two West Virginia National Guard members shot Wednesday near the White House have died, the state's governor said.

Governor Patrick Morrisey confirmed their deaths in a social media post. "We are in ongoing contact with federal officials as the investigation continues," he said.

A suspect, now in custody, was also shot and has injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening, according to a law enforcement official not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. One National Guard member was shot in the head, according to a person familiar with the details of the incident who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. ...


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-26 04:00 PM | Reply

If Trump moves to tighten the military screws on the civilian population following this, that's proof he's at the bottom of it.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-26 04:06 PM | Reply

What a f***ing country we have now.


#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-26 04:07 PM | Reply

Guns keep America safe!

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-26 04:09 PM | Reply

This shooting comes on the very day that Trump's polls have slumped to their lowest point in either of his presidencies.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-26 04:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I bet they wished they had refused Trump's illegal order now!

Judge rules Trump's DC National Guard deployment was illegal
www.politico.com

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-26 04:26 PM | Reply

They died for a nazi pedophile.

Fuck around and find out. Too bad they weren't ICE instead.

#10 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2025-11-26 04:27 PM | Reply

They died for a nazi pedophile.

#10 | POSTED BY INDIANAJONES

Apparently they aren't dead yet.

I wonder how the news got out that they were?

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-26 04:30 PM | Reply

Well, that's it. All elections are hereby cancelled, from Dog Catcher to President. All present office holders will remain in their positions until death, at which time their oldest male offspring will take the job...

#12 | Posted by catdog at 2025-11-26 04:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I wonder if this shooter will also miraculously be devoid of any online presence, clear political views ect ect ect...

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-26 04:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This part of D.C. is full of high end law offices and lobbyists. Not a place the National Guard would really find anything to protect from looters, like a grocery store.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-26 04:49 PM | Reply

Trump has already ordered Hegseth to deploy hundreds of new Guardsmen to D.C.

Like I said, Donald is at the bottom of this.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-26 05:00 PM | Reply

No matter who shot them, I condemn both all gun violence and the proximate cause of this incident: the deployment of armed soldiers into a civilian area.

#16 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-11-26 05:04 PM | Reply

Apparently, they've walked back the report of them dying and attributed it to conflicting information coming through.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-26 05:05 PM | Reply

- Apparently they aren't dead yet.

Which is how we can tell that this is rwinger on rwinger violence... they shoot just like the Trumper who (supposedly) tried to shoot Trump.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-26 05:20 PM | Reply

Ugh. That's all we need. Trump has already decided to deploy 500 more troops to Washington. And he'll no doubt be squawking about how this proves he needed to "crack down" on Washington in the first place. This is what he lives for: strife, conflict, violence.

#19 | Posted by cbob at 2025-11-26 05:28 PM | Reply

Chickens coming home to roost.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-26 05:28 PM | Reply

Alive or dead at the moment, Dummkopf Trumpf is responsible for the two ARNG Soldiers becoming casualties by seeding the national environment with hatred. Those two ARNG Soldiers were thinking about enjoying watching the Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day when they were shot.

#21 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-26 05:30 PM | Reply

#19 Never fear, CBOB...

...those excesses make wonderful, ready-for-prime-time political ads.

The volume, on the television sets of Americans everywhere, does not need to even be above MUTE on for the message to register, loud and clear.

The visuals speak for themselves.

I welcome these in-kind contributions to the Democratic Party and its candidates.

We focus on affordability, and the Trump (and sycophants like Perry "bell boi" Mason, visitor_, and other assorted smooth-brained, adult applesauces here on the Retort) wallow in the cruelty of disappearing people off the streets of America. Nancy Mace, running for governor of South Carolina, openly admits that she masturbates to videos of people being disappeared off the streets of America.

And they amplify it.

Over and over and over again.

So yes, those excesses make wonderful, ready-for-prime-time political ads... and we should be grateful for the imbeciles like Perry "bell boi" Mason, visitor_, onepigheadedironguy, and ashrimpbutnotscallopsilliteratefool, Major DEI Boaz, among others here, for making the job of Democrats just that much easier.

#22 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-26 05:47 PM | Reply

"adult applesauces" - ha!

#23 | Posted by cbob at 2025-11-26 05:49 PM | Reply

#23 Full disclosure: JoJoFromJerz. :-)

#24 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-26 05:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If Democrats would quit shooting at people gun violence would go down 90%!

#25 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-11-26 06:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Not one full year yet into his bloodthirsty regime, how many people have died-- and will die-- domestically and overseas?

The US under Dummkopf Trumpf is the anti-Switzerland.

Thanks MAGA!

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-26 06:19 PM | Reply

At least they got that little asshole Charlie Kirk.

#27 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-26 06:31 PM | Reply

These are the "second amendment solutions" Republicans are always going on about, right?

#28 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2025-11-26 06:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I wonder how the news got out that they were?

#11 | Posted by Zed

Our government is infested with incompetent hacks?

Meanwhile President Piggy called yet another female reporter "ugly"

What a shitty country we have become

#29 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-11-26 06:50 PM | Reply

The shooter has been identified as 29 year old Rahmanullah Lakanwal who was brought in under the Biden Administration.

#30 | Posted by Handsomedan at 2025-11-26 07:52 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Ahahhh!!! So it's Biden and the Democrats' fault!

#31 | Posted by danni at 2025-11-26 07:58 PM | Reply

So it's Biden and the Democrats' fault!

Is it ever not? Probably used one of Obama's free terrorist guns.

#32 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-26 08:01 PM | Reply

This shooting comes on the very day that Trump's polls have slumped to their lowest point in either of his presidencies.

#8 | POSTED BY ZED

Yep, I am getting the "false flag" vibe here.

#33 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-11-26 08:06 PM | Reply

Is it ever not? Probably used one of Obama's free terrorist guns.

#32 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2025-11-26 08:01 PM | FLAG:

I thought Obama gave away phones. Unlike Trump, who has the integrity to announce a gold Trump phone that apparently doesn't exist.

#34 | Posted by cbob at 2025-11-26 08:13 PM | Reply

If Democrats would quit shooting at people gun violence would go down 90%!
#25 | Posted by Maverick

Holler back when you're prepared to repeal the Second Amendment. We could reduce gun violence by Democrats if Republicans would simply take their guns away. But you won't.

Republicans support Democrat Gun Violence.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-26 08:20 PM | Reply

#25 Sucks to be you ...

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman (and her husband and their dog) were all shot and murdered in cold blood - all of this in front of their daughter. The killer shot and wounded another lawmaker before he was ultimately caught. The murderer had a list of additional lawmakers he was targeting for murder. Their sin? THEY WERE ALL DEMOCRATS.

But, there were no calls or orders that flags should be flown at half-staff. There was no post on Delusion Social denouncing the killings. Not even a call to the Governor of Minnesota to express sympathy and solidarity against political violence. Nope. None.

In the case of Charlie Kirk, he was killed for whatever reason the murderer had for murdering Kirk.

In the case of the Hortmans, they were killed because they exercised their First Amendment right to choose to be a Democrat.

#36 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-26 08:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Unlike Trump, who has the integrity to announce

Lewzer has no integrity, in any form.

#37 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-26 08:29 PM | Reply

#30 | Posted by Handsomedan About this account

Location: 55.7569 N, 37.6151 E

#38 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-26 09:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

PEDO DONNIE has gotten people killed for a photo shoot.
This fat asshole needs an "intervention".

#39 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-26 09:08 PM | Reply

#38 Is what I posted called "doxxing"?

Or is it more "approxxing"?

I don't think it is "swatting."

Unless there are an abundance of annoying pests.

In which case "swatting" is entirely appropriate.

#40 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-26 09:17 PM | Reply

Why did Fat Smelvis grant asylum to the shooter?

#41 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-26 09:57 PM | Reply

Why did Fat Smelvis grant asylum to the shooter?

That's an interesting question.

#42 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-26 11:37 PM | Reply

#30 | Posted by Handsomedan

Allahu Akbar, we have a new user to the Drudge Retort!

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-27 12:08 AM | Reply

The important question is, when do we get to see the unredacted Epstein files?

#44 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-11-27 12:45 AM | Reply

when do we get to see the unredacted Epstein files?

In two weeks. Like everything else.

#45 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-27 12:48 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

FDT really wants to sic the military on American citizens ... he wants to kill Americans. Like, he really wants to do that. Maybe he's jealous of Nixon and Kent State or something, but he will not be satisfied until at least 5 American citizens are shot by the military.

MBS must've pulled some strings to get this guy to give FDT an excuse to increase the military involvement in DC. It isn't, really, but we all know what he wants to do. Declare an emergency. Maybe even try to shut down the elections in 2026. I don't think he's going to pull it off ... he can't shake his dead BFF. Dude's all. over. those. files.

#46 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-11-27 12:51 AM | Reply

"FDT really wants to sic the military on American citizens ... he wants to kill Americans."

He, does, but, what he really wants is to be loved.

So he would only do that if people would love him for it.

Trump is often called stupid, but that doesn't effectively describe his mental impairment.

Trump is reasonably smart in an analytic sense, as smart as say Eberly. But his unmet emotional needs result in unforced errors. Like when Eberky has had a few.

Trump doesn't drink, after watching his brother succumb to the bottle. That's a true strength. But then so is mustering up the courage to kill someone.

Trump still has a chance to be the greatest President ever, if he does a rug pull on Putin and the utterly useless health insurance "industry." He's got the global world order and the domestic tranquility ready for a reshuffle and he can stack the deck on both sides.

But I won't hold my breath.

In the past few months, gold peaked, Bitcoin fell off, stocks stumbled, real estate is slumping, bots that are replacing jobs caused Internet outages.

It's Joever.

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-27 01:06 AM | Reply

Bugsy Patel Vows to Track Down National Guard Shooter Already in Hospital

www.thedailybeast.com

What an ass clown.

#48 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-27 01:08 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

What an ass clown.

He's getting close to his "Best Before" date.

#49 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-27 01:35 AM | Reply

Nothing justifies ambushing Domestic deployed National Guardsmen ever! Was this a false-flag incident? Or the act of some random lunatic? Neither is justifiable but we must wait for more details. As we wait, some thoughts to consider:

Trump knows that sending National Guards from other states into cities is controversial, provocative, and possibly incendiary. His decisions have been made with the intent to incite something, anything, that would allow him to stoke more protests and tension to justify even more repressive actions.

Ultimately, IMHO, DJT would like nothing better than to provoke (or to false flag) an incident that his cabinet will consider bad enough to invoke the Insurrection Act. His 2020 team of insiders plotted to invoke the Act back then, and now his current gaggle of extremist, pro-authoritarian advisors would be thrilled to see Trump become dictator. Right out of the authoritarian how-to guide-book that led 1933 Germany to empower its own one-party dictatorship.

#50 | Posted by Augustine at 2025-11-27 02:56 AM | Reply

Every Democrat that keeps labeling the National Guard, ICE and others enforcing immigration laws and trying to make cities safer as thugs and other derogatory names are 100% responsible for this attack on these officers.

#51 | Posted by gasman21 at 2025-11-27 06:30 AM | Reply

#51 sounds like Pickled Pete dry drunk posting again.

#52 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-27 07:23 AM | Reply

Shooters are likely feral Trumpers with their pew pews.

#2 | Posted by a_monson

Well, that aged like fine wine.

#53 | Posted by boaz at 2025-11-27 07:29 AM | Reply

Shooters are likely feral Trumpers with their pew pews.

#2 | Posted by a_monson

Well, that aged like fine wine.

#53 | Posted by boaz

Don't pretend that it's never a good theory to start with.

#54 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-27 08:53 AM | Reply

The 300 lb sack of child rape who calls troops "suckers and losers" needs to explain why he granted asylum to Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

#55 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-27 08:54 AM | Reply

What happened in DC appears to be what we all worried about at the start: that Trump would use the Guard to bait someone into violence, so that he could send in more troops.

This is exactly what happened.

#56 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-27 08:55 AM | Reply

Is pedo 47 going to invite the taliban to Camp David again?

#57 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-27 09:50 AM | Reply

This is exactly what happened.

#56 | POSTED BY ZED

The shooter worked for/with the CIA.

The plot thickens..

#58 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-27 10:02 AM | Reply

Link: www.theguardian.com

The suspected 6 Jan pipe bomb planter worked as a USCP officer before joining CIA: drudge.com

Years ago, I heard RUMINT that the Boston Marathon bombers had a nebulous CIA connection. The FBI ended up killing someone named Ibragim Todashev in Florida who was connected to the case. The following source is a bit suspect. But of all the people Joe Biden pardoned from the death sentence, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and one other convict will end up in Thomas Edison's rocking chair. Dead men tell no tales: www.globalresearch.ca

#59 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-27 10:20 AM | Reply

in 2021 Trump predicts that it will be a mistake taking Afgan refugees.

Trump was right again

BTW Rahmanullah Lakanwal was let in by Biden after the horrible pullout in Afghanistan

yes he did work for the CIA, but we had a lot of so called Allies in Afghanistan that turned against US troops and started shooting at them

#60 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-11-27 10:21 AM | Reply

Fucktard, the orange child rapist granted asylum to the shooter in April 2025.

#61 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-27 10:35 AM | Reply

Bugsy Patel avoids question on DC gunman's asylum

www.rawstory.com

Lol

#62 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-27 10:37 AM | Reply

"... Lakanwal came to the US in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome and was granted asylum in April. (this year)"

www.cnn.com

Facts are difficult for Trumpers, always have been. They are just so used to believing his lies.

#63 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-27 11:10 AM | Reply

in 2021 Trump predicts that it will be a mistake taking Afgan refugees.

Trump was right again

So why did Trumpy grant him asylum?

"You picked the wrong target, the wrong city and the wrong country, and you will be sorry for the violence and the evil that you perpetrated in our nation's capital,"

So we are sending you 500 more targets to chose from.

#64 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-27 11:19 AM | Reply

"Suspect in Washington DC national guard shooting had ties to CIA, agency confirms

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, worked with agency-backed military units during US war in Afghanistan

Lakanwal's ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, which worked alongside US special forces in Afghanistan, were confirmed by the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to media outlets on Wednesday evening.

The New York Times reported that the shooting suspect had worked for several US government agencies in Afghanistan, including a CIA-backed unit in the southern province of Kandahar, a stronghold of the Taliban."

www.theguardian.com

Which is why he got a visa in the first place.

#65 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-27 11:25 AM | Reply

AND the first thing Trump has done after this shooting is.... call for a bigger Immigration Crackdown.

So, perhaps this shooter is still werking for the CIA, eh? Trump's CIA.

#66 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-27 11:40 AM | Reply

Trump's CIA.

#66 | POSTED BY CORKY

L'tat, c'est moi!!

#67 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-27 11:46 AM | Reply

"I AM the State!"

#68 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-27 11:52 AM | Reply

... attributed to Louis the 14th... and the resemblance is remarkable!

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#69 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-27 11:55 AM | Reply

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