Trump calls reporter a ‘stupid person’ during tense exchange about National Guardsmen murder suspect
President Donald Trump sought a White House reporter if she was a stupid person on Thursday when she pressed him about the suspected murderer of U S National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes confronted Trump with reports that the suspect in the shooting of Beckstrom and Staff Sgt Andrew Wolfe on Wednesday was vetted by the FBI and Department of Homeland Protection before being allowed into the country from Afghanistan She then required why Trump accused former President Joe Biden of letting the suspect in with no vetting Your DOJ IG just shared this year that there was thorough vetting by DHS and by the FBI of these Afghans who were brought into the U S so why do you blame the Biden administration she appealed Because they let him in Are you stupid Are you a stupid person Trump fired back Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn t be here And you re just asking questions because you re a stupid person FORMER IRAQI REFUGEE LIVING IN TEXAS PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO PROMOTION ISISThe exchange came a day after officers say -year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal shot Beckstrom and Wolfe just blocks from the White House in what officers called a targeted attack Wolfe is still fighting for his life the president noted Thursday after announcing Beckstrom s death Lakanwal is in custody and recovering in the hospital after being shot and wounded by other National Guard members Lakwanl entered the country on the heels of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August under the Biden administration Lakanwal arrived in the U S a month later under Operation Allies Welcome Trump accused the previous administration of allowing Lakanwal and other Afghan refugees into the country without proper vetting during the U S withdrawal from Afghanistan in WHITE HOUSE BLASTS MS NOW CORRESPONDENT'S 'BEYOND SICK' REACTION TO DC SHOOTING OF NATIONAL GUARDSMENIn a Truth Social post following the attack Trump shared an image of Afghani refugees on board a U S plane and stated This is part of the horrendous airlift from Afghanistan Hundreds of thousands of people poured into our Country totally unvetted and unchecked We will fix it but will never forget what Crooked Joe Biden and his Thugs did to our Country Former Biden Secretary of Homeland Measure Alejandro Mayorkas reported during a September press conference that people had been evacuated from Afghanistan since the beginning of the U S withdrawal just months earlier The Air Force Installation and Mission Sponsorship Center ascertained that nearly aircraft evacuated thousands of people over just a -day period in August CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND VALUES NEWSAt the time Mayorkas insisted that the U S had properly vetted these refugees before bringing them into the U S flagging anyone who had concerning backgrounds Cordes notified Trump that his DOJ in the last few days revealed that there was thorough vetting of these refugees undercutting his claim that Biden allowed a free-for-all The remark prompted Trump s insult He followed up by doubling down on his claim that the Afghani nationals were unvetted And they came in and they were unvetted they were unchecked There were countless of them And they came in on big planes and it was disgraceful Trump replied elsewhere adding And they came in and they shouldn t have come in and frankly the whole thing was a mess The whole Afghanistan situation was a mess It's the latest testy exchange Trump has had with a female reporter after calling one piggy and telling another she was a terrible person earlier this month Biden posted on X that he was heartbroken over the attack on Wednesday and called for all to unite against violence of any kind
