{"id":1993392,"date":"2023-08-07T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-gold-star-dad-blasts-biden-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-be-a-grown-ass-man-admit-your-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:03:39","slug":"watch-gold-star-dad-blasts-biden-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-be-a-grown-ass-man-admit-your-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-gold-star-dad-blasts-biden-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-be-a-grown-ass-man-admit-your-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Gold Star Father Criticizes Biden over Afghanistan Withdrawal: &#8216;Man Up. Acknowledge Your Errors.&#8217;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-gold-star-dad-blasts-biden-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-be-a-grown-ass-man-admit-your-mistakes%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=1993392&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--><div>\n<h2>A Father&#8217;s Plea for \u200cAccountability<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The father of \u200done of the U.S. service\u200d members killed in Afghanistan\u200b during the \u200bchaotic August 2021 withdrawal called on President Joe \u2063Biden to &#8220;be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-on-criticism-i-dont-care-what-you-think-about-me-i-am-a-grown-successful-black-man\/\" title=\"Don Lemon on Criticism: 'I Don't Care What You Think About Me' -- 'I Am a Grown, Successful Black Man'\">grown-ass man<\/a>&#8221; and admit his role in the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do what our son did, be \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-gold-star-dad-blasts-biden-for-afghanistan-withdrawal-be-a-grown-ass-man-admit-your-mistakes\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Gold Star Father Criticizes Biden over Afghanistan Withdrawal: 'Man Up. Acknowledge Your Errors.'\">grown-ass man\u2014admit<\/a> to \u2063your mistakes,&#8221; Darin Hoover, whose son \u200bDarin T. Hoover\u2063 died in a terrorist \u200dsuicide bombing\u200c at\u2062 the Kabul airport, said during\u200b a congressional \u200cforum in California on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Hoover called on Biden, \u2062Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and other Biden administration officials &#8220;to resign immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Testimony from Gold Star\u200d Families<\/h3>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s hearing featured testimony from Gold\u2063 Star families of some of the 13 U.S. service \u200cmembers killed in the\u2064 2021 ISIS attack. The families spoke at the city hall in Escondido, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration withdrew American forces from Afghanistan in August 2021. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ignored-warnings-before-afghan-withdrawal-disaster-gop-rep-says\/\" title=\"GOP Rep Claims Biden Ignored Warnings Prior to Afghan Withdrawal Disaster.\">country quickly fell<\/a>\u2063 to the\u200d Taliban,\u200b who\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/27\/politics\/afghan-weapons-left-behind\/index.html\">seized<\/a> billions of dollars&#8217; worth of U.S.\u2064 military \u2063equipment.\u2062 The ISIS attack\u2062 at the airport \u2064took\u200b place amid the chaotic \u200cevacuation of the country.\u2063 The\u2063 Biden administration\u200c has still not properly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1726200\">vetted<\/a> 88,000 Afghan refugees who fled to the United States after \u200cthe Taliban took over.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Our\u2064 sons and daughters \u200chave more integrity in their little toes than every one of them \u2064combined,&#8221; Hoover said, referring \u2063to the Biden administration officials \u200cwho oversaw the exit from the war-torn \u2063country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hoover&#8217;s son \u2064was 31 years old when he \u2064was killed. &#8220;Mamma I&#8217;m safe, I\u200d love you,&#8221; was the final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/pain-does-not-go-away-anger-persists-family-us-marine-killed-kabul-2022-08-17\/\">text<\/a> Hoover sent to his mother before a terrorist detonated a suicide vest.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans are <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/gop-pushes-for-public-release-of-classified-info-related-to-afghan-withdrawal\/\">pushing<\/a> legislation to force the\u200c State Department \u200bto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-seeking-info-on-bungled-afghanistan-withdrawal-hit-blinken-with-subpoena\/\" title=\"Republicans Seeking Info on Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal Hit Blinken With Subpoena\">disclose classified information<\/a> that\u200b could show the\u200d Biden administration knew in advance the withdrawal would be chaotic.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. \u2063Michael McCaul (R., Texas), \u200dwho\u200c chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-ignored-warnings-before-afghan-withdrawal-disaster-gop-rep-says\/\">said<\/a> in May after reviewing \u200ca\u2063 classified cable from State Department officials\u2063 at the time of the withdrawal that the Biden administration did not\u200d heed warnings from U.S.\u2062 officials on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has declined to take responsibility for the chaotic \u200bwithdrawal. \u2063White House spokesman \u200cJohn Kirby in April <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-finally-offers-explanation-for-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-it-was-trumps-fault\/\">placed blame<\/a> on the\u200d Trump administration, saying\u200c the Biden administration was\u200d not given plans for \u2062the withdrawal during its transition into office. Kirby said &#8220;not everything&#8221; about the withdrawal was &#8220;perfect&#8221; but that there \u200dis a lot to be &#8220;proud of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the Afghanistan withdrawal, urged President Joe Biden. He implored Biden to take responsibility for the disastrous outcome and emulate the maturity displayed by his fallen son. &#8220;Be a grown-ass man, acknowledge your errors,&#8221; Hoover emphasized, seeking accountability from the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1993393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993392","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}