Two soldiers are down. The White House is sealed. And Donald Trump is furious. Within minutes of reports that two National Guardsmen were shot just blocks from the West Wing, the president unleashed a blistering response, vowing a "steep price” as federal agents swarmed downtown DC. sirens, barricades, conflicting reports on the victims’ fate — and a capital already on edg.....
A quiet afternoon near Farragut West exploded into chaos when gunfire left two National Guardsmen and a third person wounded, just streets from the White House. Within hours, DC was locked down, streets sealed, ‘and a wounded suspect in custody as federal agents and local police converged on a shaken capital sill trying to understand what happened and why.
From Palm Beach, Trump framed the shooting as a brutal test of his hard-line security crusade in Washington. He praised the Guard as "truly Great People” promised the gunman would "pay a very steep price; and leaned into his narrative of a city overrun by crime and disorder. With the FBI “engaged and assisting” and the president's federal takeover of DC policing already underway, the attack instantly became more than a crime scene — it became a flashpoint in America’s bitter fight over safety, power, and who really controls the streets ofits own capital.