LOADING ERROR LOADINGHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem deflected questions about whether the Trump administration had fully vetted the suspected National Guard shooter, an Afghan national, when it granted him asylum earlier this year, then repeatedly shifted the blame to former President Joe Biden. “Why did the Trump administration grant the suspect asylum in April? Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that former President Joe Biden was responsible for vetting the Afghan national tied to the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., despite the fact that the suspect received his asylum during Donald Trump's second term. “The Biden administration put people on airplanes, brought them to the United States without vetting them,” Noem said. Welker went on to grill Noem over the exact type of vetting that the Trump administration did before giving asylum to Lakanwal.
