{"id":1637534,"date":"2022-09-09T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637534"},"modified":"2022-09-09T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T15:08:37","slug":"house-gops-gravely-concerned-about-military-appearance-in-bidens-campaign-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gops-gravely-concerned-about-military-appearance-in-bidens-campaign-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOPs \u2018Gravely Concerned\u2019 About Military Appearance in Biden\u2019s Campaign Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-gops-gravely-concerned-about-military-appearance-in-bidens-campaign-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A group of House Republicans sent a letter questioning the Department of Defense (DoD) over President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-marines\">Marines<\/a> as \u201cpolitical props\u201d during his recent campaign-style <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-speech\">speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are gravely concerned that throughout the entirety of this partisan, politically charged, and divisive address to the nation, two United States Marines were visibly present flanking the President in the background,\u201d GOP lawmakers wrote in a joint letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/stefanik.house.gov\/_cache\/files\/9\/c\/9c23661c-9fa9-4fb2-ad31-151a38414bda\/DBEBEED52F1CED218D353360AE720770.22-07-09---letter-to-secdef---marines-at-biden-political-speech-.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) sent to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s use of active duty Marines as political props undermines the apolitical nature of our servicemembers and erodes trust in our military,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n<p>The letter references\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-accuses-trump-maga-republicans-of-extremism-in-rare-primetime-address_4706064.html\">Biden\u2019s speech<\/a> outside the Independence Hall\u00a0in Philadelphia on Sept. 1\u2014in front of deep red backlighting flanked by two Marines\u2014that cast Trump-aligned Republicans as a threat to America. The Marines saluted Biden at the end of the speech as the president left the stage and walked inside the building behind the first lady.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers asked Austin whether the Pentagon knew the contents of Biden\u2019s speech before his appearance in Philadelphia, and whether it had known that the two active-duty service members would be presented on TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden inappropriately and illegally jeopardized Marines\u2019 compliance with DoD regulations while he was denigrating &#038; demonizing tens of millions of Americans,\u201d House Republican Conference Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepStefanik\/status\/1567892182018789376\">posted on Twitter<\/a>, urging an end to what she called \u201cpoliticization\u201d of the military.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik signed the letter along with House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense ranking member Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calf.).<\/p>\n<p>The appearance has drawn intense fire from political rivals and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mainstream-media-reporters-target-biden-for-giving-polarizing-speech-flanked-by-us-marines_4705592.html\">mainstream media commentators,<\/a> who said it is historically unusual for a president to denigrate his political opponents while using U.S. military members as political props.<\/p>\n<p> White House Response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of House Republicans sent a letter questioning the Department of Defense (DoD) over President Joe Biden using Marines as \u201cpolitical props\u201d during his recent campaign-style speech. \u201cWe are gravely concerned that throughout the entirety of this partisan, politically charged, and divisive address to the nation, two United States Marines were visibly present flanking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}