Sarah Beckstrom, one of the national guard troops shot in Washington DC on Wednesday, has died, Donald Trump said on Thursday.
Beckstrom, 20, was one of two members of the national guards shot near the White House in a targeted attack. The other member, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still fighting for his life, according to the president.
Beckstrom’s father had told the New York Times in a phone call earlier in the day that his daughter was unlikely to recover. “I’m holding her hand right now,” Gary Beckstrom said. “She has a mortal wound. It’s not going to be a recovery.”
Both Beckstrom and Wolfe belonged to the West Virginia National Guard, which deployed hundreds of troops to Washington as part of Trump’s crime-fighting mission in the capital.
Deployed on a bogus mission just to have this outcome. Ordered by a felon rapist president, who found bone spurs when it came time for his duty. He should also be sitting in a prison cell due to his insurrection activities. Instead, he gets to send youngsters to die for nothing.
He should have been put in front of a firing squad when he and Epstein raped a 13 year old girl. Then this would have never happened. Stolen justice.
I wonder in 20, 50, 100 years, how this will be taught in history class. If the truth will be told or if he will be remembered as the MAGA superstar that some people still believe he is. The fact that he was allowed a second term at all doesn’t give me much hope.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and an angry mob will turn the ballroom into a guillotine room
Sad part is there are many reasons you could say he should be put in front of a firing squad for. I hate him more than should be possible.
They never found bone spurs, that was just the claim to get a 4f. I believe his personal doctor provided a note like many politically connected or wealthy families did.
The blood is all on Donald Trump’s hand. These troops were ILLEGALLY in DC and have no reason to be there.
Donald Trump granted this man asylum, so once again, it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.
RIP Sarah.
Republicans and deploying troops to die in meaningless bullshit. Name a better duo!
Except for maybe, troops getting fucked by Republicans and still voting overwhelmingly Republican.
I hate how jaded and indifferent I’ve become too all these groups that voted for these assholes that are now paying the price.
From immigrants voting for Trump getting deported, to working people losing their insurance because of Trump, to troops dying because of Trump, to farmers losing their livelihood because of Trump.
I do not give a shit anymore. I’m tired of having to have compassion for everyone when those same assholes vote for shit they KNOW will hurt people, they just thought it wouldn’t be them being hurt…
The Trump regime killed this woman by unnecessarily putting a military force in an exposed position to perform tasks for which they are ill-suited, just like the US did in Afghanistan. Now, they will callously wield her memory as a political tool to channel racism against Afghan refuges that had the audacity to assist in the US invasion of Afghanistan.
The message is clear: NEVER help the United States government, they will fuck you over just to satisfy the whims of rich narcissists.
Donald Trump murdered this woman, and did so during the intentional, knowing commission of other major crimes. Never, ever forget. Never, ever forgive.
She wouldn’t have died if they weren’t needlessly there in the first place.
She wouldn’t have died if she’d had the courage to refuse illegal orders.
Womp womp.
Which orders were illegal in this case?
Judge rules Trump’s DC National Guard deployment was illegal - POLITICO https://share.google/drgPRPfbvJQwEthBs
Is it your position that she was blissfully clueless of the fact that she was being sent to intimidate & terrorize her fellow citizens?
If she was a decent person, she’d be alive today.
Good riddance.
I was curious whether they were actually doing anything illegal. National guard can’t actually do anything stateside besides disaster relief, so when they’re activated for “unrest” they’re just there to look scary or whatever. They literally don’t do shit.
Another actually helpful lemming pointed out the deployment itself was illegal, but that wasn’t even clear until the ruling because Trump literally is their commander. Him deploying other states’ guards on title 10 orders is blatantly illegal, DC wasn’t as clear cut.
Trump should be put to trail for this. Their blood is on his hands.
Put it on the list of his thousands of crimes
Well let’s do the reasonable thing and make sure no one with similar skin color to the shooter is ever allowed to immigrate here again
Illegally deployed and Krasnov is thinking more suckers and losers for his fucked up agenda. Are these troops wearing body armor? Krasnov failed to examine the shooters visa extension.
I’ll wager he couldn’t be more pleased with how it turned out.
Poor kid.
womp womp~
can’t be an active foot soldier for fascism and expect me to care.
