Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot a few blocks from the White House on Wednesday, and a suspect identified as an Afghan national is in custody.

He went cuckoo, he went nuts. And that happens too often with these people,” Trump told a reporter who highlighted suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s ties to the CIA. “There was no vetting or anything. They came in unvetted.

Authorities said that the National Guard members injured in the shooting were part of a "high-visibility patrol" near the White House.

New Yorker writer Jane Mayer faced backlash after criticizing the National Guard deployment following the shooting of two guardsmen in Washington, D.C.

As part of the force sent to Los Angeles this summer to assist in the president’s immigration crackdown, the soldier, who has served in the Guard for six years, said he and his commanders worried that the assignment “increased our risk of us shooting civilians or civilians taking shots at us.”