Rep. Wasserman Schultz on D.C. National Guard Shooting: ‘Pretty Disgusting’ that Trump Wouldn’t Say that It’s His Fault

SIDNER: “I do want to ask you this, because the timing of this has caught a lot of people‘s attention, that days before the shooting, the public learned through through reporting that the Trump Administration had planned to review and re-interview refugees that came in during the Biden Administration. I mean, what do you think about the timing of all this, the shooting coming literally days after that?”
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “I just think that any administration needs to be careful about making sweeping generalizations. I mean, the fact that the president‘s come out and he‘s going to — says he‘s going to review every green card holder from 19 countries of concern, you know, that — he has stopped certain immigrants from countries already that, again, makes sweeping generalizations about countries, that shouldn‘t have every individual assumed to be dangerous to admit to the United States. We need to make sure that we have tight and appropriate and proper vetting. If there were gaps that admitted this person, they would have failed over multiple levels of gaps. And this individual was trusted enough to participate in assisting our military during the war in Afghanistan. So I just think, you know, the president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies. We need to make sure that we don‘t have our military deployed in our cities, doing — handling law enforcement responsibilities. And we need to make sure that we address gun violence. We certainly need to make sure we always have the proper and appropriate and tight, tight vetting processes, and those should be reviewed. But it‘s never the president‘s fault or his policies when it comes to his reaction. And it‘s — it‘s pretty disgusting.”