Gold Star father blames Biden or the AutoPen White House for D.C. shooting by Afghan national Plus more!

So this just in but looks like a Gold Star father blames the failed Biden administration for D.C. shooting by Afghan national, citing inadequate vetting during failed 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. The father of Staff Sgt. Darin "Taylor" Hoover one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the Abbey Gate bombing during the chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan is blasting the former Biden administration after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House.

Hoover gave Fox News Digital a new, forceful statement on Wednesday’s shooting, saying the incident was the direct result of the administration’s failed vetting of Afghan evacuees. "This is on the feckless Biden administration," Hoover said of the shooting. "We had no idea who was getting into this country because the Biden administration, especially the State Department run by Antony Blinken, didn’t do the work that was needed to vet all these people. There were so many people put on the planes that got out initially, that we have no idea who they were."

He continued: "By doing this, all we got is men of fighting age that are most likely terrorists that are here in the homeland to do us all harm and take our beloved United States of America. Maybe if the Biden administration started the process earlier than the truncated timetable that they did, this could have all come out so much better, including all of our most precious men and women of our military coming home." The FBI is leading the investigation into the shooting, and multiple intelligence sources tell Fox News Digital the attack is being treated as a possible act of international terrorism. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was taken into custody after allegedly ambushing the two West Virginia National Guardsmen near the White House.

Fox News Digital previously reported that Lakanwal entered the United States in September 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome, immediately following the fall of Kabul, and that he had worked with several U.S. government entities, including the CIA, as part of a partner force in Kandahar. "The individual and so many others should have never been allowed to come here," former CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News Digital. "Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden administration’s catastrophic failures."



Hoover says the shooting confirms what he and other Gold Star parents feared when thousands of Afghans were evacuated during the final days of the withdrawal that many individuals were allowed into the United States without adequate screening. "We had no idea who Biden put on those planes," Hoover said. "None." Wednesday’s comments come after years of public criticism from Hoover, who has been one of the most vocal parents demanding accountability for the Abbey Gate attack that killed 13 American service members, including his son Taylor, an 11-year Marine veteran who was engaged to be married and on his third deployment to Afghanistan. Hoover’s earlier remarks made headlines in 2024, when he reacted to President Biden falsely claiming during a presidential debate that no U.S. service members had died under his watch. At the time, Hoover told Fox News Digital that he felt "rage" hearing Biden deny the deaths of the Abbey Gate 13.

"The rage, the absolute disgust that I got from hearing him say that I started yelling back at the TV," he said in 2024. "He’s never acknowledged, not one time, any of our kids. He’s never said their names." He also revealed then that the Biden administration sent the Abbey Gate families a batch of identical condolence letters a year after the attack. "All 13 families got a canned letter," he said in a 2024 Fox News Digital interview. "It looked like it was a photocopy. We’ve had absolutely nothing before, nothing since." Hoover’s frustration at being unable to secure a meeting with Biden was also part of that earlier reporting.

"[Biden] doesn’t want to deal with us," Hoover said in 2024. "He knows that we’re in his face, but he doesn’t want to deal with us." But Hoover told Fox News Digital this week that Wednesday’s shooting, allegedly carried out by an Afghan national allowed into the country during the withdrawal, is a devastating new chapter. To him, it demonstrates that the consequences of the troubled evacuation are still unfolding on American soil. Federal officials say the investigation into the shooting remains active. Hoover says he will continue speaking out until the families of the Abbey Gate fallen receive answers and until the former administration takes responsibility for what he believes are ongoing failures.

Watch the videos on this post as these are the latest in this news, and it's going to get really interesting as it's become clear that a lot of these people Biden let in are like what Trump said very dangerous, and like I've been calling an inside "Trojan Horse" already here and ready to do these sort of actions. God watch over our land and hope the law can start to take these actions, and connect the dots to help prevent anything like this from happening in the future. 

Biden’s pardons are ‘void & vacant’

Donald Trump came out and said Joe Biden’s pardons are now ‘void and vacant’ after auto pen controversy is out in the public, and this controversy could have major blow back on these Pardons as these were done mostly to protect the Biden CRIME family and his minions of the criminals he pardoned. So as Trump said all pardons issued by former president Joe Biden are ‘void’ after his Democratic predecessor allegedly used an auto pen to sign his acts of clemency in office. The president took to Truth Social in the early hours of Monday morning to sow doubt over the legitimacy of Biden’s pardons, claiming he used the mechanical device to sign documents rather than doing so by hand.

Trump claimed Biden failed to give consent for preemptive pardons issued to the nine House select committee members that investigated the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 along with “many others” granted clemency on the former president’s last full day in office on January 19. “The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Auto pen,” Trump wrote.

“In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden.” Presidents can issue pardons (removing a punishment after a court decision) and commutations (a reduction in punishment for a crime) as they see fit for federal convictions, but not for state crimes. Trump, who himself granted clemency to more than 1,500 January 6 criminals in January, warned that the members of the House select committee are no longer shielded by presidential pardons and should expect to be investigated, despite not being charged with any crimes. 

“Therefore, those on the Unselect Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other innocent people, should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level,” he continued. “The fact is, they were probably responsible for the Documents that were signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!”

Earlier on Sunday evening, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that the decision on whether the pardons would stand would be up to a court. He again stated, without evidence, that Biden “didn’t have any idea” that the pardons were being signed off. The president also trolled Biden in another Truth Social post with a meme replacing his official portrait with an auto pen mimicking his signature.

In a post on Saturday, he wrote: “The person who was the real President during the Biden years was the person who controlled the Auto pen!” Trump appeared to seize on reports from the Oversight Project, a self-described investigative arm of the right-wing think tank behind Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation. Last week, the group challenged the legitimacy of the orders signed by Biden claiming that an “autopen signature” was used across almost “every document” it could find. However, a Fox News examination of President Donald Trump’s executive orders during his first and second administrations found “the signatures were also the same.” Twenty-five of Trump's signatures on the Federal Register’s website from across both terms also found signature matched, according to a separate analysis by the Daily Mail.

Trump’s comments open up the possibility that the Justice Department may attempt to prosecute some of the president’s biggest political targets who had been granted clemency by Biden, upending more than a century of law surrounding presidential pardons. They include retired disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, and former Representative Liz Cheney – all also pardoned on the last day of Biden’s presidency after Trump threatened their prosecution on the campaign trail. 

The former president also preemptively pardoned five members of his family who had long been the target of attacks from Trump. In December, Biden pardoned his second son, Hunter Biden, and said he had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.” Marcus Garvey, the founder of the Black nationalist movement in the U.S. was granted a posthumous pardon while four other activists and public servants also received clemency on the last day of the Biden administration. On January 17, Biden also commuted the sentences for nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses.