The Haystack Is All Needles – Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller Discusses DC Terrorist Attack

White House Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, appears on Fox News in the aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack that has left two national guard members critically injured.

Miller notes the 20+ million illegal aliens allowed in by Joe Biden and Barack Obama represent a grave national security threat that President Trump is now having to deal with.  WATCH:

Reverend Franklin Graham outlines the spiritual battle that needs to be faced.

“The streets of our cities are not safe. Another tragedy today as two National Guardsmen were shot and critically injured on duty just blocks from the White House. It is regrettable that in most of the big cities needing help, the Democratic leadership seems to be doing all they can to undermine law enforcement and the safety of residents by defunding the police, by not backing the National Guard who are there to protect, and by letting dangerous criminals with multiple convictions back out on the streets to harm again.”

“Our country not only needs prayer, but also President @realDonaldTrump as he is battling to fix these critical issues for us. Especially pray for these two severely injured National Guardsmen and their families. I wholeheartedly agree with President Trump as he told the nation today, “God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement.” Amen!”  ~ Franklin Graham

Old Clips Prove JD Vance’s Afghan Refugee Fears Were Justified: ‘They Shouldn’t Have Been in Our Country’

RedState 

Old video clips of Vice President JD Vance have resurfaced across social media following a horrific terror attack linked to an Afghan refugee on Wednesday— and for good reason.

They provide an illuminating light following a violent strike on two National Guard members serving in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Both National Guardsmen remain in critical condition as of the latest reporting, after being ambushed by a gunman identified as 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

Lakanwal, according to CNN, entered the United States on a temporary visa issued to him in 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, a program designed to coordinate the evacuation, processing, and resettlement of vulnerable Afghan nationals in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Some of those Afghan nationals had worked alongside U.S. forces.

Vance, even during his time as a Senate candidate in Ohio, expressed valid concerns about resettling Afghan refugees. There was no proper vetting process in place, and the botched military withdrawal under former President Biden was expediting the process to unsafe levels.

Vance saw it. He knew this presented a problem.

One of the earlier examples of that involved Vance, who had just entered the political arena, getting into a dustup with then-Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), whose oft-squishy views on bringing refugees into the United States had put them at odds with one another.

Sasse, as Biden's failed withdrawal was heating up, argued that the United States had an obligation to help those who had helped the country, urging the Biden administration to "go faster and save the Americans and Afghan allies behind enemy lines."

Vance, though, dismissed Sasse's "ridiculous platitude" and pointed out that America should keep its word, but must prioritize America first.

"Of course, nobody disagrees with that … the question is not whether we honor our word," he said. "The question is, who we made promises to, who do we owe an obligation toward? And to any leader of this country, the obvious answer should be American citizens. So, let's focus first on getting them out of Afghanistan before we say another word about the Afghan refugees."

Amen. Sing it from the mountaintops.

Another clip making the rounds is Vance's tussle with CBS News' Margaret Brennan in his first interview since becoming Vice President. Brennan, practically parroting the Biden White House, had insisted that people coming into the country had been adequately vetted.

Spoiler alert: Vetting was virtually non-existent.

Vance immediately turned Brennan's argument on its head by pointing to a planned terrorist attack on Election Day in 2024 by an Afghan national residing in Oklahoma City. That attack was thwarted, thankfully.

The back-and-forth argument—and by that I mean something akin to an argument between a hammer and a nail, with Vance serving as the hammer—led to the Vice President's viral retort, "I don't really care, Margaret."

"That was a very particular case. It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living here, but..." Brennan argued.

Vance replied, "I don't really care, Margaret. I don't want that person in my country, and I think most Americans agree with me."

They likely agree at a much higher rate, considering the latest terrorist attack on the National Guard.

The Vice President, in X posts following the National Guard attack, pointed out the obvious. He was right. Trump voters were right. Any American with more than three operational brain cells was right.

Bringing unvetted Afghan refugees into the country was a bad idea. Any promises to them should have been secondary at best to those made regarding the safety and security of the American people.

"I remember back in 2021 criticizing the Biden policy of opening the floodgate to unvetted Afghan refugees. Friends sent me messages calling me a racist. It was a clarifying moment," Vance wrote. "They shouldn't have been in our country."

The 2028 frontrunner said the Trump administration would work tirelessly to continue packing the bags of any people illegally in the United States.

"Many of our voters will demand not just words, but action, and this is an entirely appropriate response," Vance explained. "We will first bring the shooter to justice, and then we must redouble our efforts to deport people with no right to be in our country."

President Trump, in an address to the nation's military on Thanksgiving Eve, echoed those sentiments, saying his administration would "re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden."

Trump and Vance will need to keep working to clean up the mess that Biden and his minions helped usher in—no letting off the gas now. These two National Guard members deserve a ruthlessly aggressive reset on the invasion that led to their attacker getting into this country in the first place.

We Were Warned in 2021 on the Danger of Afghan Refugees Flooding Our Country

RedState 

As RedState has updated, in the wake of Wednesday's terror ambush attack of 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, two West Virginia National Guardsmen who were shot blocks from the White House, there is much information is pouring in about the alleged terrorist, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. RedState reported after the attack that Lakanwal came to the U.S. in September 2021 through former President Joe Biden's Operation Allies Welcome program, which was instituted after Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. 

Also emerging are video clips from 2021 of then-OH Senator (Now Vice President) JD Vance, former United States Army captain and current assistant to the Secretary of War for public affairs, Sean Parnell, and others, who were highly critical of this program to allow 30,000 unvetted Afghan refugees to enter the United States. This endeavor received overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats, but Vance and Parnell's warnings seem almost prophetic in the wake of this heinous assault on two American soldiers. 

Sean Parnell appeared with Tucker Carlson on Fox News in 2021, and talked about his personal experience with Afghan terror, which cost the life of one member of his platoon. An Afghan interpreter, who had been embedded with Parnell's unit for a year, double-crossed them. Parnell said the interpreter "had been with us every step of the way, someone who we thought was our friend." 

It is clear that the ideology of jihad does not recognize friendship with infidels. This interpreter embedded with this unit in order to learn their procedures, their strengths, and their weaknesses in order to strike. Parnell later discovered that this interpreter had coordinated with an Iranian IED cell in Pakistan with planting a bomb, and led them over the bomb for it to detonate. Four of Parnell's soldiers were seriously injured, and one was killed. 

Parnell said to Carlson:

Just because an Afghan works with us and is friends with us does not actually mean that they're safe to bring here. And this precisely why we cannot bring 30,000 unvetted Afghan refugees to the United States of America. It is an irresponsible policy, and quite frankly, I can't believe we even have to have this conversation. American citizens have to have the — they have to be the priority.

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WATCH: Sean Parnell in 2021 arguing against bringing unvetted Afghan "refugees" into America by telling a story about a longtime interpreter in Afghanistan who betrayed his platoon.  

People forget that this was a lonely and courageous position to take in 2021. 

Countless establishment Republicans in Congress, along with virtually the entire donor class, sided with Biden and supported bringing these people into our country. 

I saw firsthand how MAGA Conservatives like @JDVance, @Jim_Banks and @SeanParnellUSA were ruthlessly smeared and attacked by RINOs inside the GOP for opposing it, but they were right all along.

Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) was one of those Republican legislators who was full-court press for allowing the Afghan refugees to come to America, deeming it the least that we could do for them. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) worked to open up his state for this influx, receiving 10,000 of the 30,000 Afghan refugees to Texas. But more and more evidence is showing that any form of vetting was cursory or non-existent. So, who knows where these refugees are today? As the investigation into the National Guard attack in D.C. continues, Graham, Cornyn, and others should be questioned about their role in this Biden program.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, who planned the 2024 Election Day terrorist attack in Oklahoma, was never properly vetted by the Biden administration. He laid low and plotted to disrupt our electoral process for three years. Now, Rahmanullah Lakanwal is raising the same red flags. As RedState reported, Lakanwal was cleared by the Biden administration because he worked "with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation," CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News Digital.

A New York Times exclusive also asserts that Lakanwal had mental health issues because of the brutality he witnessed as part of this U.S. government work:

The Afghan refugee accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., fought in the late days of the U.S. war there as part of a “Zero Unit,” a paramilitary force that worked with the C.I.A., according to a person briefed on the investigation and an Afghan intelligence officer familiar with the matter. The units were known for their brutality and labeled “death squads” by human rights groups.

The suspect, identified by federal officials as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, grew up in a village in the eastern province of Khost. A childhood friend, who asked to be identified only as Muhammad because he feared Taliban reprisals, said that Mr. Lakanwal had suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit had caused.

“He would tell me and our friends that their military operations were very tough, their job was very difficult, and they were under a lot of pressure,” Muhammad said.

Why would anyone consider this type of person a candidate for U.S. resettlement? The fact that Lakanwal was associated with the CIA also sets off alarm bells. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is one of the Seditious Six and as a CIA analyst, she was extensively involved in the war on terror. In her campaign for Senate, she bragged about her work with the State Department, on the National Security Council, and at the Pentagon. As the FBI seeks to question the Seditious Six about that janky video they recorded a few weeks ago, whether Slotkin had any connection with the supposed vetting of the Afghan refugees—and if she had any connection to Lakanwal specifically—would be a legitimate focal point.   

There are still the bigger questions: was Lakanwal given status as a refugee, or did he slip through the cracks, disappearing into society? Are Tawhedi and Lakanwal one-offs, or part of a terror network that is waiting for precise moments in particular cities to activate? Thanks to the Biden administration, records and information on these individuals are sketchy or incomplete, so the FBI will be required to piece together this puzzle. At present, the blame and finger-pointing is obscuring what should be the priority: Finding and removing those 30,000 Afghan refugees from our country.

The Trump administration has pledged to seek justice for the two National Guard members and to re-vet every Afghan refugee. But in light of the damage, it's akin to putting a bandage over a gushing artery.

As this is a developing story, we'll bring along new updates as more information becomes available.

Death Toll Climbs with Hundreds Missing in Massive Hong Kong Inferno

A massive fire at Wang Fuk Court in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong erupted on Wednesday afternoon, quickly spreading through multiple high rise residential buildings with bamboo scaffolding, trapping hundreds of residents, triggering mass panic, overwhelming firefighters, killing, as of tme of publishing, at least 55 people, injuring many others.

In the latest Reuters News report at least 55 people have been confirmed killed with hundreds still missing. The complex housed 4,600 apartments and was undergoing renovations. The 31 story buildings were covered in nylon mesh and bamboo scaffolding, with reports of foam insulation sprayed on the outside of the windows.

As the fire spread, the construction mesh and bamboo became ablaze and triggered fallout on the surrounding buildings, spreading the fire throughout the complex. The fire entered the buildings trapping many residents on the upper floors as the horrific inferno spread.

The videos and still images are terrible.  24 hours later and the heat inside the buildings is too intense for firefighters conducting search and rescue efforts.  An absolute nightmare for those who lived in the buildings.