“US President Donald Trump, during a conversation with journalists, called one of the reporters “stupid” after being asked about checks on Afghans during the administration of Joe Biden.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European truth” with reference to AFP
Details: The journalist asked why Trump was blaming his predecessor Joe Biden when some members of his own administration said that Afghans in the US had undergone thorough background checks.
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“Are you dumb? Are you a dumb person? Because they let them in,” Trump said, interrupting the reporter.
He also showed a photo of a US military plane filled with people fleeing Afghanistan after the Taliban regained power.
According to the American president, these Afghans came “along with thousands of other people who shouldn’t be here, and you’re just asking questions because you’re a dumb person.”
Prehistory:
- On November 27, it became known that there was a shooting near the White House, as a result of which two National Guard soldiers received gunshot wounds, one of whom later died.
- American law enforcement officers call Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old native of Afghanistan, the suspect in the shooting.
- A relative of the suspect said that he arrived in the United States in September 2021 after 10 years of service in the Afghan army, where he worked with American special forces.
- Following the shooting, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) indefinitely suspended the processing of all immigration applications involving Afghan nationals.
- And Trump said that he wants to “forever” stop migration from “all third world countries”.