Trump Has Blood on His Tiny Hands

     Rahmanullah Lakanwal got into his car in Bellingham, Washington and drove 3000 miles to Washington, DC to kill National Guardsmen.

     God knows what was going through his mind or what he thought he was going to accomplish. We have no idea what his motives were but that really isn't important. He opened fire on two West Virginia Guardsmen near I Street and wound up killing Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom of the 863rd Military Police Company. 24 year-old Andrew Wolfe is still fighting for his life.

     The DOJ has upgraded its charges against Lakanwal and charging him with first degree murder. But considering Jeanine Pirro is in charge, with her track record, don't be surprised if Lakanwal winds up getting acquitted, receiving a key to the city and getting a huge civil judgment.

      Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Trump decided to send 500 more Guardsmen to Washington, even though the double shooting was by an Afghan national out of Bellingham, Washington and wasn't home-grown. Such a tactic is stupid and eerily mirrors the "sunk-cost fallacy" that made the 21 year-long war in Afghanistan such a losing, hopeless quagmire.

     If Trump had never sent those Guardsmen to Washington, that girl would still be alive. Wolfe wouldn't be fighting for his life. And our nation's capital wouldn't be an armed encampment. Sending more Guard troops to Washington is akin to pouring gasoline on a fire in the hopes it will extinguish it. Their very presence in DC simply invites conflict.

     Lakanwal worked with the CIA in Afghanistan and was, ironically a policeman in his native country. After the August 2021 exodus of US forces, Lakanwal came to the United States seeking asylum and was finally granted it by, wait for it, the Trump administration. That same administration, when warned about the danger to Guardsmen deployed to DC, simply blew it off. 

     Military commanders knew very well what the risks were but Pam Bondi's Justice Department dismissed the concerns as purely "speculative". Well, a girl barely two years out of high school is about to be put into her grave. It's looking a lot less fucking speculative now.

     Again, I don't know what Lakanwal's motives were and I don't care. And I don't want to hear about his mental health issues. He planned this and successfully drove 3000 miles from Washington state to Washington DC to murder people. As opposed as I am to the death penalty, I hope for once Pirro succeeds and gets this piece of shit the death penalty. But Trump's administration gave this psychopath the asylum he sought, he put the National Gard at risk just by deploying them and he dismissed the risks they'd face. And now he's ordering 500 more Guardsmen into a city he doesn't like. Let's not forget that. Ever.