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President Donald Trump, 79, delivered a late-night address from Florida calling the ambush “an act of terror,” vowing to “re-examine every single alien” who entered from Afghanistan and to send 500 more Guard troops to Washington.
The suspect, an Afghan man who entered the United States in 2021, was arrested after the shooting near the White House. President Trump halted immigration applications from Afghanistan.
Two National Guard soldiers were shot and critically wounded on Wednesday in downtown Washington near the White House in what officials described as a targeted ambush, and the suspect was in custody after suffering gunshot wounds during the incident.
President Donald Trump took a swipe at Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, during the Thanksgiving turkey pardon at the White House on Tuesday, blasting Pritzker's resistance to using the National Guard to quell Chicago crime.