Trump pays tribute to Gold Star families, highlighting the stark difference in treatment compared to Biden’s disrespect.
President Biden’s Lack of Compassion Towards Gold Star Families
According to first-hand accounts, President Joe Biden treated U.S. Gold Star families, whose loved ones passed away during the disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, with a remarkable lack of compassion — even for Biden. Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, honored those same families with the utmost respect and dignity on a recent night to remember.
Don’t take this author’s words for it, listen to the mothers and fathers of the brave American soldiers who died in 2021 after a bomb detonated at the Kabul airport, killing 13 of America’s bravest. Trump hosted relatives of those heroes at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on August 31.
For example, per a report from The Spectator’s Matthew Foldi, Paula Knauss Selph — the mother of Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss — was moved to tears as Trump wrote on her son’s photo, “You are My Hero.” Knauss Selph told Foldi that those are the exact same words she uses to describe her son.
Now, contrast that moment with Biden’s treatment of the anguished parent.
Knauss Selph, who now serves as the executive director of the Respect and Remember Foundation, met with Biden in the Oval Office at an event for Gold Star families in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day 2022, The Daily Wire previously reported.
At first, Biden said to her, “I can understand if you’re angry,” when they were face to face.
“I stood face-to-face with him, eyeball-to-eyeball. I began to weep,” she said, saying that she told him, “It should have never happened this way.”
“He stood there stoically,” she said of Biden. “Nothing out of his mouth except — well would you like to get a photo with me?”
Knauss Selph told Biden she would only agree to a photo of it was of her and the president at her son’s tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery.
He declined, claiming that the Secret Service would not let him do so.
After that experience, Knauss Selph blasted the current president, saying, “It’s a moral disgrace for a president not to have mercy on the people that he serves. It is a moral disgrace.”
She wasn’t alone in her sentiments toward the two presidents.
Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of the late Sergeant Nicole Gee, told Foldi, “Trump was way more than I expected.”
“The contrast is stark with the president we met at [Dover Air Force Base],” she added.
Recently, Shamblin testified before Congress, “The administration didn’t seem to know our story,” while adding that “when it came to the people in suits, it felt disingenuous and hollow.”
Trump’s Compassionate Gesture
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s administration recently released a report calling the withdrawal a “success” and Biden has said the withdrawal was “responsible, deliberate and safe.”
Of course, readers know the lapdog media will never cover this story — it paints too much of a black-and-white difference between Biden and Trump. Thank goodness for conservative press and social media to get the story out there.
The names of the 13 Americans killed during the withdrawal can be read here:
- Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25
- Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23
- Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31
- Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22
- Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23
- Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22
- Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20
- Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20
- Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20
- Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20
- Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20
- Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22
- Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23
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