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.

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[–] 151 points 9 months ago (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 76 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 124 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago*

    Don't forget all the people they promised they'd protect in Afghanistan, promising to bring them and their family to USA in exchange for information and helping with interpretation, and as a result becoming an enemy of whichever terrorist organisation had a hold in the area. Just to leave them behind and forget everything about them.

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  • [–] 74 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Donald Trump murdered this woman, and did so during the intentional, knowing commission of other major crimes. Never, ever forget. Never, ever forgive.

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  • [–] 74 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    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...

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  • [–] 67 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    She wouldn't have died if they weren't needlessly there in the first place.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    She wouldn’t have died if she’d had the courage to refuse illegal orders.

    Womp womp.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Which orders were illegal in this case?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Trump should be put to trail for this. Their blood is on his hands.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Nah, it’s Biden’s fault. Everything that’s happens now is Biden’s fault. Everything that happened during a Trump’s presidency is Biden’s fault.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    they are already doing that by spreading "he came to us during biden administration".

    he worked for us occupation forces in afghanistan and when they withdrew, they let people who worked for them to come to us to prevent them being executed on the spot by taliban. guess which master of deals fucked up the whole withdrawal process?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I’m not sure if I would want people that help occupying forces attack their own country to come to my country. It’s a very iffy situation 100% created by the warmongering neoliberals in the GOP and DNC.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Maybe our country shouldn't send those occupying forces next time then, but we did this time, and now the only decent thing for us to do is stand by the people our scumbag leaders put on the front lines of their foreign policy choices

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago

    More blood on the ruling class' hands.

    I feel bad for their children who are going to have to collect.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I’ll wager he couldn’t be more pleased with how it turned out.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    It's those ILLEGALS faults that this West Virginian was killed by a Legal Resident in Washington DC! If ONLY they Didn't Deploy West Virginians to DC for No Reason ILLEGALS WERE EXTERMINATED she'd still be Alive!

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago

    womp womp~

    can’t be an active foot soldier for fascism and expect me to care.

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