Right wing commentator Nick Fuentes is pushing his own angle on the brutal Washington DC shooting that left two National Guard members dead.Fuentes claimed that the suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal was not some hidden "Taliban fanatic" but a longtime collaborator of the United States military.

Republicans were sounding the alarm about the vetting of Afghans who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration's "Operation Allies Welcome" program back in October 2021—the same initiative that gave entry to Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect in the D.C. shooting of two National Guard troops, a month earlier.

The Afghan man alleged to have shot two National Guardsmen near the White House had his asylum approved by the Trump administration earlier this year, according to reports. The suspect has been identified by multiple law enforcement sources and media outlets as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal is suspected of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, DC. Both service members were critically injured in the attack. Lakanwal, an Afghan national, entered the US in 2021.

Two National Guard soldiers were shot in a targeted ambush near the White House, with the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national, taken into custody. The incident reignited debate over Afghan immigration policies,

Lakanwal himself was shot during the exchange of gunfire and is currently being treated in a hospital, authorities said.