‘Disgusting Ghoul’: White House Slams New Yorker Writer for Saying National Guard Should ‘Never Have Been’ in DC

Sean James Nov 26th, 2025, 5:56 pm

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The White House’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X lambasted writer Jane Mayer as a “sick, disgusting ghoul” after she said the National Guard “should never have been deployed” to Washington, D.C.

Mayer’s comment, made in her own X post, was made about an hour after two National Guardsmen were shot in the nation’s capital. FBI Director Kash Patel, while speaking to the press around 4:50 p.m., said the two troops were in critical condition.

“This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed,” Mayer said. “I live in DC and watched as they ha

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