Donald Trump lashes out at CBS News reporter asking about National Guard shooting: 'Are you a stu...

The president accused CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes of &34;asking questions because you're a stupid person.&34; Donald Trump lashes out at CBS News reporter asking about National Guard shooting: 'Are you a stupid person?' The president accused CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes of &34;asking questions because you're a stupid person.&34; By Emlyn Travis :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/EmlynTravisauthorphotocba6765b433b4f93b9398d18053153b1.jpg) Emlyn Travis is a news writer at . She has been working at EW since 2022.

The president accused CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes of "asking questions because you're a stupid person."

Donald Trump lashes out at CBS News reporter asking about National Guard shooting: 'Are you a stupid person?'

The president accused CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes of "asking questions because you're a stupid person."

By Emlyn Travis

Emlyn Travis is a news writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2022. Her work has previously appeared on MTV News, Teen Vogue, and *NME*.

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President Donald Trump; Nancy Cordes. Credit:

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President Donald Trump snapped at yet another female reporter yesterday after she questioned his comments surrounding Wednesday's devastating National Guard shooting.**

The 79-year-old former reality star was speaking with the press at his Mar-a-Lago home on Thanksgiving Day when CBS News White House correspondent Nancy Cordes asked him about the incident, which killed one National Guard member and injured a second. **

Authorities said that suspect, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, drove across the country from Washington state to D.C., where he allegedly shot the two soldiers just blocks away from the White House. Lakanwal is currently in custody and facing multiple charges including first-degree murder, U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro confirmed on *Fox & Friends* on Friday.

President Donald Trump.

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During Thursday's press conference, Cordes said to Trump, "U.S. officials say the suspect worked very closely with the CIA in Afghanistan for years and he was vetted and the vetting came up clean."**

CIA director John Ratcliffe confirmed in a statement that Lakanwal was allowed to enter the U.S. "due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including C.I.A., as a member of a partner force in Kandahar," *The New York Times* reports. He was one of many Afghan individuals who came to the U.S. under then-President Joe Biden's "Operation Allies Welcome" program amid the administration's hasty withdrawal from Kabul.

In response, Trump said that Lakanwal "went cuckoo," adding, "He went nuts and that happens too, it happens too often with these people."

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While speaking with the press, Trump claimed that there was "no vetting" during the process. "We have a lot of others in this country and we're going to get them out," he said. "But they go cuckoo. Something happens to them."**

However, Cordes disputed his claim: "Your DOJ IG just reported this year that there was thorough vetting by DHS and by the FBI of these Afghans who were brought into the U.S., so why do you blame the Biden administration?"**

"Because they let 'em in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?" Trump fired back. "Because they came in on a plane along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here, and you're just asking questions because you're a stupid person."

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He went on to call the entire operation "disgraceful," and said that "it's almost impossible" to get people to leave once they've settled in the U.S.

Trump's response is the latest instance of him calling a female reporter names when asked about current events. Last week, he snapped at a Bloomberg journalist, saying "quiet, piggy," after she asked him if there was anything incriminating within the Epstein files.

He also called *The New York Times *reporter Katie Rogers "ugly, both inside and out" in a Nov. 26 social media post after the outlet published an article exploring how his age has affected his second term in office. **** White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later defended Trump's "piggy" comment during a Nov. 20 press briefing.

"Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room," she said at the time. "You've all seen it yourselves. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people re-elected this president, because of his frankness."**

Watch Trump lash out in the clip above.

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