We reported earlier on the horrible shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., near the White House on Wednesday. The suspect was also wounded, and is in custody.
President Donald Trump has weighed in, as has the Department of Homeland Security, asking for prayers for the wounded Guard members. West Virginia Gov. Pat Morrisey initially reported that the two Guard members had died, but then walked it back, saying there were “conflicting reports.”
President Trump Reacts to National Guard Troops Shot, Reveals Their Conditions
In the wake of such a horrible event, you would hope that the media and everyone involved would be circumspect in what they say.
Then you have folks like MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian. This was the wrong thing to say, as our sister site Townhall reported.
MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian just after 3pm Eastern on the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington D.C…
“[O]f course, you know, there’s so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ice, who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks. And so there’s,… pic.twitter.com/p6IPk6XTWl
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 26, 2025
“[O]f course, you know, there’s so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ICE, who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks. And so there’s, you don’t know, people walking around with uniforms in an American city. There are some Americans that might object to that. And so apparently this shooting has happened.”
That’s pretty disgusting,
Then this was this rambling from ABC’s Aaron Katersky.
WHAT?! ABC’s Aaron Katersky speculating on a motive in the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington D.C…..
“Focus will turn to whether these guardsmen were specifically targeted. If that’s the case, it would fit with what we’ve been hearing from law enforcement… pic.twitter.com/cyB4SFlPMs
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 26, 2025
“Focus will turn to whether these guardsmen were specifically targeted. If that’s the case, it would fit with what we’ve been hearing from law enforcement officials for a number of months now that some political flashpoints in the country, whether that’s immigration policies by the administration, the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, even amid a tenuous cease fire, those kinds of flashpoints have made people in uniform, be they military, law enforcement, government officials, people in uniform have increasingly been targets, and that is going to be one focus of the investigation going forward.”
Jane Mayer of The New Yorker also jumped in with a horrible take. The twisted effort to somehow blame the administration and diminish the service of the National Guard in D.C. is truly vile.
This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed. I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show and at what a cost. https://t.co/ABkOHNHAvG
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) November 26, 2025
This is so tragic, so unnecessary; these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed. I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show and at what a cost.
So it’s the fault of being “deployed,” not the fault of the person who shot them. And their deployment wasn’t a “political show” – it helped drop the crime rate in D.C., and even the Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser had to acknowledge that. Mayer doesn’t seem to understand the concept that their very presence tends to deter people who would engage in criminal activity. She’s also attacking them when she says they are doing nothing, when they have been very effective.
As we reported, the FBI believes this was an ambush. So why are these members of the legacy media trying to blame the administration and “uniforms”? Where was their condemnation for people demonizing the National Guard before this?
NEW: Investigators Say National Guardsmen Shot Near White House Were Ambushed in Targeted Attack
The media, of course, doesn’t want to go there.
