President Donald Trump was asked at a press conference on Thursday whether he intends to go to the funeral of the murdered National Guardswoman, Sarah Beckstrom — and Trump detoured from the question into bragging about how popular he is in Beckstrom’s home state of West Virginia.
“It’s in the early stages, obviously, but do you plan to attend Sarah’s funeral?” asked a reporter.
“I haven’t thought about it yet, but it’s certainly something I could conceive of,” said Trump. “I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere. And it’s, you know, these are great people. I love the people of West Virginia. I love the people of our country.”
“But I haven’t given it any thought, but it sounds like something I could do, yeah,” Trump added.
Beckstrom and another National Guardsman, who as of press time remains in critical condition, were ambushed and shot in an attack while on deployment to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, as part of Trump’s move to take over law enforcement in that city.
The suspect, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, has been identified as an Afghan national who assisted the CIA in an elite security unit in the final days of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. He was paroled into the country in 2021 under former President Joe Biden’s administration, and formally granted asylum in April of this year under the Trump administration. Authorities have still not revealed a suspected motive.
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