Mid-Day Update： November 28, 2025
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A West Virginia Army Specialist, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, a member of the West Virginia National Guard, passed away last night on Thanksgiving after a terrorist attack on her and another WV Guardsman in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, November 28th.
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Happy Friday, folks, and I hope you all had a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and your loved ones.
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20-year-old Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, the member from the West Virginia National Guard,
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passed away last night on Thanksgiving following the horrific terrorist ambush on her
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and another West Virginia Guardsman in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
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The 2nd National Guardsman, 20-year-old Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, remains in critical condition.
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President Trump announcing last night around 6.30 p.m. Eastern Time,
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describing her as highly respected, young, magnificent person, outstanding in every single way.
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Just an absolute disgust, absolute disgrace that this is what we have to deal with in America
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from these radical Islamists and anyone who hates America.
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This man is believed to be an Afghan refuge who left Afghanistan after the Biden botched withdrawal.
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As you may know, DHS has confirmed that the suspect is an Afghan national flown here by the previous administration
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And the toughest, meanest, most capable physically got on the plane.
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Not the people that we were looking for or that they wanted to bring in.
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Standing on top of each other and sitting on top of each other.
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This is what we had under the Biden administration.
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That whole thing should have never, ever happened.
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They should have left from Bagram, as you know.
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And this was a this was just a route, just a terrible situation.
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And this heinous atrocity reminds us that we have no greater national security priority
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than ensuring that we have full control over the people that enter and remain in our country.
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Their countries force them in because their countries are smart.
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Let's give them to the Americans to take care of.
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They come out of jails, in many cases, mental institutions.
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So that's President Trump's plans moving forward.
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He also yesterday took some reporter questions and totally lambasted a reporter for asking
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President Trump why he blames the Biden administration for this Afghan terrorist being in our country.
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Do they hate America that much that they can't open their eyes to see what happened?
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And the botched withdrawal, which is a Trojan horse we now see?
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Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here.
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And you're just asking questions because you're a stupid person.
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And there's a law passed that it's almost impossible not to get them out.
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And if you look, you'll see there was a law passed.
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It makes it almost impossible not to let them in, not to certify them, so to speak, once they come in.
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And they came in and they shouldn't have come in.
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If we're going to go out and we would have gone out because I had everybody ready to go.
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We were going to go out with strength and dignity and precision.
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And we would have kept Bagram, by the way, because of its very close relationship to China and where they make their missiles.
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But when you let the people come in by the thousands and thousands and thousands, they made a terrible mistake.
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I think President Trump was far too nice to that reporter.
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Folks, we pray for Sarah Beckstrom and her family and that she's in her final resting place at peace.
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Disgust that the holiday season, this is what we're dealing with here in America.
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Now, FBI agents raided the $2,000 a month apartment in Bellingham, Washington on Thursday,
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executing search warrants as part of a rapid expanding terrorism probe tied to the Afghan national Ramdullah Lakowal.
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The gunman who ambushed and shot the two National Guard members just steps from the White House.
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He's facing at least three counts of assault with intent to kill while armed, along with criminal possession of a weapon.
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Now, authorities have hinted that more possible federal charges, possibly terrorism related, could be forthcoming.
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And, folks, once again, just let's keep these two great Americans, these two National Guardsmen, both in our prayers.
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One for, you know, eternal peace that they're now heading to the Creator,
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and the other one who is in critical condition in the hospital that he pulls through.
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Please be sure to join us, folks, tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern Time.
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