Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) has long performed a key role for many on the left. When there is an argument barred by decency or decorum, Wasserman Schultz is happy to make it, from attacking journalists in her defense of censorship to attempting to rig an election and bar Republicans from ballots as part of her defense of democracy. However, on Friday, the Florida representative set a new low in American politics: attempting to assign some of the blame for the shooting of two National Guardsmen on President Donald Trump.
On CNN’s “News Central,” Rep. Wasserman Schultz declared that
“This is a deeply concerning situation, but, you know, it’s one that I think we have to — it begs the question, would an individual have flown across the country to target law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C.? And, I mean, the answer is likely no. So why wasn‘t the president‘s first thought, ‘Wow, you know, maybe I should reconsider deploying military troops in the nation‘s capital or in any city?’ Particularly not when they haven‘t coordinated closely with the leadership of these cities and when we have law enforcement that are quite capable of handling the criminal justice issues that are — that we need law enforcement to focus on, and not our military.”
There is a good-faith debate over the deployment of National Guard personnel in cities. However, the mayor of Washington, D.C., has worked with the Administration on that deployment, and crime has fallen in the Capitol. They have been coordinating with the city.
Nevertheless, Wasserman Schultz pressed on:
“I just think, you know, the president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies. We need to make sure that we don‘t have our military deployed in our cities, doing — handling law enforcement responsibilities. And we need to make sure that we address gun violence. We certainly need to make sure we always have the proper and appropriate and tight, tight vetting processes, and those should be reviewed. But it‘s never the president‘s fault or his policies when it comes to his reaction, and it’s pretty disgusting.”
D.C. has some of the strongest gun control measures in the nation. Moreover, this is a crime committed with a handgun brought from another area with strong gun control, Washington State.
Wasserman Schultz is also assuming that it was the deployment that motivated the shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national. Lakanwal entered the U.S. on September 8, 2021, under Operation Allies Welcome, a program established by former Democratic President Joe Biden after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
The father of slain Guardsman Staff Sgt. Darin “Taylor” Hoover blamed the “feckless Biden Administration” for the death of his daughter the day of Wasserman Schultz’s statement.
Wasserman Schultz, however, does not blame former President Biden for Lakanwal’s presence in the United States. (Lakanwal, a former member of a CIA unit in Afghanistan, was reportedly granted asylum under the Trump Administration in April).
Investigators are still working to discover the motive of Lakanwal for murdering one soldier and critically wounding another. However, Wasserman Schultz feels entirely comfortable in suggesting that it was the deployment of the Guard in cities over Democratic objections. Of course, a few other possibilities come to mind. First, it could be an act of religious-based terrorism. Second, it could be an act of mental illness. Third, it could be a personal grievance with the U.S. government.
Killing soldiers in the nation’s Capitol can be appealing for any of these motivations or a combination of motivations. It is not obvious that someone travels across the country because this is where you can find personnel on the streets. After all, there are also troops deployed in other states closer to Washington state. There are also large bases in Washington state where military personnel are present in large numbers in public areas.
A shooter with any of these motivations could view the location as amplifying his grievances against the government. Wasserman Schultz seems to suggest that Trump is responsible for making troops targets due to the controversial use of the Guard and supplying targets for a terrorist.
The most important point for Wasserman Schultz is a familiar one: Trump did it.
Yet, blaming the deployment is like blaming the Republican members for the mass shooting at the 2017 softball field. After all, if they had not made themselves targets, James T. Hodgkinson would not have gone there. Hodgkinson, a former Bernie Sanders supporter, hated Republicans and would have found another gathering to carry out his murderous plan. In the same way, Lakanwal may have been on the hunt for any soldiers as a symbol of the United States in the Capitol.
The point is that we do not know. The effort to use this tragedy for political purposes is to dishonor the victims. Few would feel comfortable getting into the head of a homicidal madman without any evidence or support. However, that appears to be a unique skill set for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
This column ran on Fox. com
The shooter worked for the CIA under Trump and was given asylum by Trump. He attacked the NG on the orders of Trump.
You must still be getting over your hangover.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national. Lakanwal entered the U.S. on September 8, 2021, under Operation Allies Welcome, a program established by former Democratic President Joe Biden after the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Question: did Biden actually import the taliban disguised as US cooperatives? He left the equipment for their use.
80% yes, he did.
Trump left over 80,000 items there and 2,500 US troops to look after them.
And the Trump administration reviewed his application and said he could stay. 4 years and not one infraction.
What changed?
One might note that Lakanwal did nothing illegal at all until Trump put the National Guard on the street, much like the way that Saddam Hussein put the Republican Guard onto the street.
This incompetent mind wants to remove all police from the streets, believing such removal will end crime.
Although Trump is not responsible for the shooting of the National Guard troops he is directly responsible for the cold blooded murder of Venezuelan fishermen. Also he is responsible for the coverup of the Epstein files in which there is damaging material regarding his crimes of a sexual nature. This is in addition to his history of financial fraud and chronic lying about everything.
Fishermen? Seriously?
Yes. Them being fisherman does not make murdering them legal.
When those “fishermen” are hauling fentanyl as bait to catch Americans, it’s no longer murder, it’s national defense.
Hear, hear!
Old Joe Kennedy sailed the same course in the 1920s, didn’t he, in sort of an unassailable, pristine pre-Camelot mode? Those Kennedys, as pure as the wind-driven snow, right?
Was that before or after he supported the Nazi Party prior WWII?
That could work as a defense, Olly. Afghani taliban soldier admitted by Biden in 2021 and Afghani national was killing the enemy, Sarah Brechtman.
What else has he done? Is he in fact a military prisoner?
Afghani is the currency of Afghanistan. Afghan is the identifier for those from Afghanistan.
Follow-up reporting indicate he’s had a mental breakdown. As one might expect the US doesn’t offer people much help after military service and he’s no exception.
Free trade. Americans can choose not to buy or use fentanyl. Otherwise it’s a bunch of entrepreneurs who see a market opportunity to sell to willing and eager buyers.
Oh, yeah. So many fishermen need a 40ft speed boat with three or four oversized outboard engines and enough fuel to get them to Miami. See the videos of them trying to outrun the USCG? Why would honest fishermen not just stop, let the USCG inspect their speed boat?
The run is to other Caribbean nations to get shipped to Europe. American drugs are shipped via Mexico.
The boats don’t have the range to reach America from Venezuela. That’s a 2000 mile one-way trip; 28 hours of 70 mph driving. And, if that is the destination, why not let them get closer?
“See the videos of them trying to outrun the USCG?”
The USCG isn’t there. That is the US Navy, which Trump has made very public that they are trying to kill them. Of course they are running.
“The boats don’t have the range to reach America from Venezuela.”
I gather you’ve never heard of go-fast boats retrofitted with custom fuel tanks.
I rely on those in the maritime industry who know about go-fast boats retrofitted with custom fuel tanks who have noted that a boat that size cannot have a 2000 mile range. They are pulling about 100 gallons per hour to make time, so they would need almost 3000 gallons of fuel for the trip, nearly 20,000 pounds or 10 tons of fuel. It would take a tank 20 feet long, 10 feet wide and 2 feet deep.
A plane is far more practical. Not only faster, but uses less fuel.
The boats run out of Colombia and Venezuela to the Dominican Republic. They offload from there and Honduras then head over to Puerto Rico and the BVI and VI for further distribution. Cuba use to assist and allow offloads in their waters to trawlers and shrimp boats, risky and you gotta pay, sometimes with your life. No fishing vessel has 4 or 5 400hp outboards, these guys carry 55-gal drums of gas to refuel on the way and illicit cargo that pays big. There is no fishing vessel that would operate this way, there’s no fish to profit from hook and line, think fuel vs catch. What else do you wanna know, rough way to get rich…
When you start smuggling drugs on your “fishing” boat, you stop being a “fisherman” and start being a “drug smuggler.”
Guifree told Andrew she was 21.
Rosie said those weren’t herpes too.
Fisherman with HIGH speed boats. I had no idea fish could swim that fast?
In real life, where the rest of us live, getting to the fish faster is a big deal. If there is a report of a school of fish and it takes 5 hours to get there, the fish will be long gone.
Tuna, for example, can swim at cruise at 2-3 mph, so a 5 hour delay moves the fish between 10 and 15 miles. Good luck finding them then. At a burst a tuna can go nearly 50 mph, when they are hunting and feeding. Just a few minutes can get them a mile or two.
Come on Man! Didn’t you know that Cackling Hag only has one que card in her Comedy Routine – Orange Man Bad and Threat To Democracy! Everything fits nicely in this moronic Democrap Theorem!!
It’s spelled “cue” card.
This is nothing particularly new from former DNC chairthing, DWS. She’s the teflon woman that walked Scot free, when her Pakistan spy IT employees were given full access to Democrat computers and emails – while grifting millions of taxpayer dollars from DWS before escaping back to Pakistan with all the data on those computers. She walked – and was part of the ensuing DNC effort to claim that Trump working with Putin was how would-be president Hillary Clinton’s emails got out in the wild.
Professor Turley, when your fellow Democrats like Wasserman-Schultz, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland et al keep both showing and telling you what the Democratic party is today, maybe you should finally believe them and ask yourself why you still self-identify as a Democrat voter.
It’s official—> “chairthing”.
Once again who’s the problem Schultz, the Seditious Six, Nashville’s “AOC” Aftyn Behn or their constituents who re-elect them? You can only hope that their statements and conduct show their at the heart of the nation’s problem’s.
There will be many more ‘Squeaky Wheels’ before the Mid Term election.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Representative for Florida’s 25th congressional district
Since Jan. 3, 2023 (next election in 2026)
Democrat
Map of the Congresswoman’s District – See area FL25
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/embed/mapframe?state=fl&district=25&bounds=-81.032,27.736,-77.55,24.197
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) is babbling imbecile parroting the progressive left’s anti-Trump acute TDS propaganda narrative, as usual.
Truth be damned.
Representative Wasserman Schultz is evidence that blind hatred doesn’t necessarily concern itself with facts.
Good one. Spot on.
Blind hatred NEVER concerns itself with the facts as seen in the psychosis known as Trump Derangement Syndrome!
Yawn, of course ALL DEMOcultists blame Trump (and systemic-historical inequities) for everything. Are they sincere in their statements? Why bother pondering that, everything in their existence is politics=power+wealth. They fully explain justification for every act of political violence as they vicariously participate and cheerlead for ever more of it. This is simply more of the perpetual campaigning-propaganda-attack on their enemies at the behest of their masters and their plot for power. Preaching to their devoted voters, muddling and moving the minds of the moronic middle, and agitating the right is easily accomplished with a high profile Dem running their mouth to media–like a nationwide daily call to prayer. How odd that the CIA could accidentally enlist someone suffering from mental illness to carry out their duties. Asylum for persons hostile to the concept of America? Bring them in by the millions, shower them with benefits and they’ll love America just like Democrats do. Perhaps the Trump-Rep govt shutdown could also be listed by Dems as a potential factor. Rhamanullah’s Natl. Guard D.C. killcation coincided neatly with the billboard campaign for N. Guard to seek legal help disobeying orders and the slick advertisement featuring elected Dem vets encouraging the same. Now they excitedly anticipate fraggings, desertions, and a Kent State-like massacre as part of their escalation of the “No Kings!” 2026 Election season.
Most of the blame goes to the creators of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation with a big bunch to the Federalist Society. I blame Trump for representing the racist, xenophobic, misogynistic mob that got him elected to act as a puppet for those two organizations, while also bending the knee to oppressive dictators out of what appears to be envy. Making this possible is the spineless Machiavellian machinations of Moscow Mitch McConnell.
Sure, if Trump had a spine and any morality, he could, at this point, resist, but that’s not going to happen. He sold out to them in exchange for his followers worshiping him.
*. Her statements are clearly irrational. It’s concerning. Drug testing is appropriate as is a psychological evaluation. People sluff off this kind of speech when it should be examined medically.
Personally I wouldn’t feel comfortable if I was in the same room with her.
“Personally I wouldn’t feel comfortable if I was in the same room with her.”
That sounds a bit ‘Paranoid’, maybe you should chick in for an evaluation.
*. Premeditated 1st degree murder and failure to recognize it is funny to you?
Hey Ano.
Try again (you should chick in for an evaluation.)
^^^…if I were in the same room..
This is a failure to recognize premeditated 1st degree murder. It’s deeply concerning. It is not a lack of decorum nor political speech. She cannot recognize murder.
Listening to Schultz and other TDS-afflicted Democrats, one might well ask: could todays’ Democrat Party be deemed a Domestic Terrorist Organization?
“Remember Imran Awan, the DNC-employed technology aide who worked closely with Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) until it was discovered he and family members also working on the Hill were stealing tech equipment by falsifying work orders while simultaneously funneling members’ emails improperly onto a an unauthorized server?“ REDSTATE. All information on the Pakistani Imran Awan was sealed by the DOJ. If Congress wanted to make progress, it could unseal those records. Something is truly not right with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. It would be good to know who her master is.
Having been married to an orthodox Torah scholar I can only say that Wasserman Schultz and George Soros can be seen as the justification for the rise in antisemitism. If I thought all Jews were like this I would want to shed them from this nation in a NYC minute. The truth is, either one of them represent a G-dless adherence to self-service and are capable of any number of actions that would be condemned by Judaism. Aside from that she is just your ordinary, obfuscating, manipulating political grifter of the biden sort and nothing will stop her but the final curtain of her life.
Every people group has good people and bad people, just not in the same proportion.
That is true, but no other group has been so maligned. I wish the general western world would realize what the chinese did centuries ago and see that there is far more danger from islam that from Judaism. But that is going to be a lesson that will be quite painful for this nation before it is learned.
Is she Jewish?
I think she is and therefore she is a disappointment. I usually tend to think of Jewish people as smarter than rest of us–and they seldom disappoint–but apparently even they can pop out an occasional idiot.
Do you think Soros, Elias, Epstein, Garland, Goldman, Kane and Raskin are all smarter? An occasional idiot, or quite troubling few?
Being smart isn’t the same as being good.
Here’s a few more prominent government heavy hitters creating total chaos in our country for the list; Judge Boasberg, Anthony Blinkin ( the creator of the 50 Intel agents letter), Larry Summers.
Gee, it’s almost like a pattern of chaos and corruption being sown.
I don’t think it is that she is stupid in the manner of mazie horono, but she is calculating and cleaver and she uses her intelligence for malignant purposes which is far worse.
Whimsocal–
That may be. And is worse.
Is Sammy Davis Jr. Jewish?
Are you asking if there is a Jewish gene? A group of chromosomes upon which the Torah is written?
What a cockeyed question 🤣
I loved Sammy D, Joey Bishop, Dean, Frank and the other Rats in the pack!
Is Dr. Jill a real doctor?
“When there is an argument barred by decency or decorum, Wasserman Schultz is happy to make it.”.I think that says it all. (In fact, there are any number of Democrats who are willing to make it.) But, note that Wasserman-Schultz and Trump have an especial history.
Don’tcha just love the way all our Congressional members love to have their pictures taken with the prominent American flag over their shoulder, –giving them “under the cover of” authority and credibility and validation– for all those good things they do,… –like “attacking journalists in [ ] defense of censorship, to attempting to rig an election and bar Republicans from ballots as part of [ ] defense of democracy,…and…’accusing the President for causing the shooting of two National Guardsmen.'”
It’s my understanding that the flag photo is a standard Human Resources practice for officials and senior managers throughout the Federal government.
looks like you missed the irony and hypocrisy.
Which is more likely to be true? Trump was responsible for the deaths of the two guardsmen or Biden was responsible for the death of Laken Riley because of his open border policy.
Laken Riley (22 years old): Laken Riley, an Augusta University nursing student, was found murdered on the University of Georgia campus in February 2024. Jose Antonio Ibarra, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela who had illegally entered the U.S., was convicted of malice murder and other charges in her death and sentenced to life in prison without parole. There are more.
Jocelyn Nungaray (12 years old): In June 2024, Jocelyn Nungaray was sexually assaulted and murdered by strangulation in North Houston, Texas. Two Venezuelan nationals, Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and Franklin Jose Peña-Ramos, who were in the country illegally, were charged with capital murder.
Has this slime sludge from the swamp creature ever considered what the last moments of life must have been like for these girls? Leftist politicians like this creature only care about advancing their career by virtue signaling to their compatriots. Blood money collected spends just fine.
More likely to be true? What complete sickness.
More likely to be true? What complete sickness.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else.
This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.
100X or more were murdered or raped by good red blooded, God-fearing, American citizens. Say the names of the 10,000 who have been raped by Americans. You won’t get to the end of the list because more will be added as you go. You will never catch up. Violence is how America is. Violence to steal the vote by putting falsified documents before the House of Representatives. Sending the equivalent of 5 to 7 Hiroshima bombs to level the buildings in Gaza. Killing villagers in Afghanistan because Saudi Arabians attacked the US. You may have higher chances of being killed by lightning than being attacked by an immigrants.
So many refuse to acknowledge that in order to flip (fundamentally transform) a constitutional republic to become socialist, communist or under the jurisdiction of the global world order, there will be bloodshed. Consider such a transformation as THE FALL OF AMERICA.
Well, now we have DWS on record with her assessment. If it proves to be wrong as the investigation moves forward, will she admit it?
If “we” have the record … where in heavens name do you come up with such nonsense?
Just maybe, you should pay attention for once.
Say her name Anonymous. Laken Riley. Say her name Anonymous Jocelyn Nungaray.
My God, Jocelyn was only twelve tears old and they ganged raped her and then murdered her.
Once again you have convinced us that yours is a heart of stone and you are representative of all your friends in Washington D.C. Maybe Joe Biden will hear you when you SAY THEIR NAMES!!
Hey, at least Wasserman-Schultz admitted human agency in the shooting, rather than blaming the evil gun.
Almost by design that the Trump-triggered gunman didn’t use an AR or EV in his broad daylight D.C. targeted attack on the National Guard. Media and the pukes like W-S would be quickly sidetracked were that the case. The legally purchased .357 is not a distraction.
“The legally purchased .357 is not a distraction.”
I do, however, find it a somewhat odd weapons selection for attacking two Guardsmen who presumably were armed with M17 handguns and/or M4 carbines. I have access to 3 revolvers and a lever action carbine in .357 magnum, and I wouldn’t for a moment, under any circumstances, consider using any of those weapons to voluntarily go against multiple, well-trained persons bearing US military issued arms. According to the reports, the attacker came around a corner, and so would appear to have been relying on the element of surprise, which also does not seem to be a likely recipe for success, given that the NG was deployed there to forestall and intercept trouble. That all makes me wonder if his primary motivation might not have been to die as a martyr. Not that any motivation would in any way excuse his actions.
In America, the gun is the universally approved problem solver. Worried about robbery? Buy a gun. Think someone will attack? Buy a gun. Think the country will fall into anarchy? Buy 20 guns and 50,000 rounds of ammunition plus a literal ton of freeze-dried rations to guard the hoard of gold. Someone talks to you in a way you don’t like? Buy a gun. Someone cuts you off in traffic? Brandish a gun. Someone bumps you in the parking lot? Shoot them.
Guns are used in TV shows to solve problems. Cops shoot bad guy – problem solved. Bad guy shoots other bad guy – problem solved. On broadcast TV this might be 50 times a week of someone getting a bullet hole. And the number of times it’s just a nick; doesn’t collapse a lung, doesn’t shatter a shoulder blade, doesn’t dump the contents from the intestines out to cause a massive infection, doesn’t hit an artery so the person either bleeds to death or has a critical injury from compartment syndrome.
Gun violence is sanitized. To be a solution guns cannot be shown to cause more problems.
The USA doesn’t merely have a problem with more guns than people living here.
The USA has a problem because it is reinforced that the way to solve a problem is to use a gun to do it.
Look at how Trump is “solving” the drug problem. Using the gun follow-on, air-to-surface missiles, to blow up fast boats. Imagine if Trump were to succeed – millions of drug addicts going through withdrawal all at the same time. The gun solution causes even larger problems.
A gun is no more a problem than an uncontrollable attack dog is a problem. It’s the owner attitude that guns are a solution that is a problem.
Get a gun, solve problems.
This message paid for by the American gun makers lobby. In Gun We Trust.
All true patriots know that it’s the Democrats, led by Biden, Austin and Milley, who have Sarah Beckstrom’s blood on their hands. People like Debbie Wasserman Shultz can try to deflect, but anyone with a hint of intelligence knows it was Biden’s surrender of Afghanistan that led to this and many other bloody disasters.
“…we always have the proper and appropriate and tight, tight vetting processes…”
Yea, right. Under Biden and with the support of DWS, if they had a heartbeat Afghani refugees we’d let in by the plane load. Even Blinken admitted as much.
“Under Biden and with the support of DWS, if they had a heartbeat Afghani refugees we’d let in by the plane load. ”
Few Afghans escaped from being murdered by the Taliban for cooperating with the USA. These, including the shooter, helped the US fight in Afghanistan.