{"id":1993583,"date":"2023-08-07T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ultimate-disrespect-gold-star-families-trash-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T19:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:28:40","slug":"the-ultimate-disrespect-gold-star-families-trash-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ultimate-disrespect-gold-star-families-trash-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Star families slam Biden administration for disrespectful Afghanistan withdrawal."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fthe-ultimate-disrespect-gold-star-families-trash-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal%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=1993583&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--><h2>Gold Star Families Speak Out Against Biden Administration&#8217;s Handling of Afghanistan Exit<\/h2>\n<p>A number \u2063of Gold Star family members laid \u2064into President Joe Biden and members of his administration,\u2064 calling them out over the disastrous exit from Afghanistan that took the\u2063 lives of their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>At an\u2062 event in Escondido, California \u2014 \u2062hosted by Mayor Dane\u200c White and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) \u2014 relatives of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ultimate-disrespect-gold-star-families-trash-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" title=\"Gold Star families slam Biden administration for disrespectful Afghanistan withdrawal.\">thirteen service members killed<\/a> by the suicide bomber\u200c at \u2062the Kabul airport on August 26, 2021, joined \u2064together to speak publicly about their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Issa introduced the event, \u200bbilled as the Afghanistan Gold Star Families Public Forum, saying that while they \u2062had officially allotted five minutes for each family member who wanted \u200bto speak, no\u2064 one\u2062 was going to enforce time limits as long as the families\u200c had \u200dsomething to share.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RIGHT NOW: I am in Escondido where Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dwhite1904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Dwhite1904<\/a> is hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/C48?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#C48<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repdarrellissa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@repdarrellissa<\/a> for an Afghanistan Gold\u2064 Star Families Public Forum, where family\u2062 members of those killed during Biden\u2019s \u200bchaotic withdrawal are speaking \u2062jointly for the first time<\/p>\n<p>(1\/xx) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jbRpV73IPG\">pic.twitter.com\/jbRpV73IPG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1688597811062087680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Issa also made it clear \u200bthat the ultimate goal was to make sure that such a tragedy never happened \u200cagain: \u201cDid they have \u200bto \u200cdie? \u2064Could we \u2063have done something different? \u200c\u2026 I only apologize that we \u200ddidn\u2019t do \u200cit sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the \u2064family members began\u2062 to speak, and they had little if anything positive to say about Biden and the military leaders who \u2064had been a part of \u200dthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/listen-elon-musk-presses-robinhood-ceo-about-gamestop-fiasco-restricted-trading\/\" title=\"LISTEN: Elon Musk Presses Robinhood CEO About GameStop Fiasco, Restricted Trading\">decision-making process<\/a> during the troop drawdown and withdrawal \u2014\u200c and most were absolutely furious that the administration\u200d had then insisted the withdrawal had been a \u201csuccess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SSG Taylor Hoover\u2019s mother was among those who spoke, and she said \u200cthat the blame for her \u2064son\u2019s death\u2063 rested on Biden, Chairman of \u2063the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley, Secretary of \u200bState Antony Blinken, and others. \u200c\u201cIncompetent, cowards, evil,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taylor\u2019s concern was immediately apparent when he got to \u200bAfghanistan, Kelly says. He warned her of:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChaos, lack \u2064of communication, \u200dno leadership.\u201d \u201cCommand\u200c cares nothing for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of disrespect, what kind of hatred \u2064for our military, what\u200b kind of mess\u201d would have made\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Foldi\u200c (@MatthewFoldi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1688604531519795206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hoover\u2019s father spoke as well, saying that the Biden administration \u201cdid not uphold\u200b their \u2062end \u2064of that contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis didn\u2019t need to happen in the manner that it\u200c did,\u201d he \u200cadded, saying that leadership had \u201cmade a conscious decision that made\u2064 a chaotic and frantic withdrawal from Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to call out those leaders, saying\u200b that it\u2062 was \u201cnothing short of disgusting and ignorant\u201d that they had turned around and claimed that the withdrawal had been a success. \u201cI\u2019m calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley \u2026 and\u200c ultimately, the president, and do what our son did:\u200b and\u2063 be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-nfl-insider-takes-heat-for-dwayne-haskins-tweet\/\" title=\"ESPN NFL Insider Takes Heat For Dwayne Haskins Tweet\">grown ass man<\/a> \u2026 You all need to resign immediately. Our\u2063 sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes \u2062than all of them combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley,\u201d Whited (who did not give\u2062 the call to \u2063take out the bomber), \u200dand \u201cultimately, the president, and do what our son did: and be a\u2064 grown ass man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou all need to resign immediately. Our sons and daughters have\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi)\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1688609003725799424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicole Gee\u2019s mother said she knew no forum would ever bring her daughter back, but her goal in speaking was to make sure that the service members \u2064who came \u200bafterward would be \u2063treated\u200d with the respect earned by the 13 who \u200clost their lives\u2062 that day in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen \u200dour leaders, include the\u200d secretary \u2062of defense and \u2063our commander in chief, called this a\u200c \u2018success,\u2019\u2026 it\u2019s like a knife in the heart,\u201d she said. \u201cThese deaths\u2063 were preventable. My daughter could be with us today. \u200dTo call it a success is the ultimate disrespect. There were 13 avoidable deaths \u2026 This was not a success. What we\u2019re asking for it to stop the insanity and make it\u2063 better\u2062 for the next \u200dgroup.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThese deaths were preventable. My daughter could be with \u2064us today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo call it a success is the ultimate\u2064 disrespect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u200c were 13 avoidable \u200cdeaths,\u201d not to mention\u200d the wounded. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was not a\u2063 success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re asking for \u2062it to stop the insanity and make it better\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1688610971160625152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dylan \u200bMerola\u2019s mother called Biden \u201cheartless,\u201d saying that he had claimed to know how she felt but never once mentioned her son\u2019s name. \u201cIf they had closed the gate, my son would be alive today,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHow could a worldwide event\u201d just vanish \u200bfrom coverage, she asks<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything, even the way my son died, was being covered \u2062up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A colonel told her she wouldn\u2019t want to see \u2064the drone footage.\u2062 \u201cI had already seen my son\u2019s lifeless body,\u201d who is he to say \u200cthat?<\/p>\n<p>(18\/xx)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1688615068999757828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u200d7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2063commander in chief failed\u2062 in the oath he took \u2026 he failed everybody,\u201d Humberto \u200cSanchez\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1688617438957699072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mother said<\/a>.\u2063 \u201cI want the answers, I want the\u200c truth \u2026 I want to know this type of failure\u2062 will not repeat itself\u200b again \u2026 I\u2063 will fight til \u2063my last breath to get the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter \u2062Lopez\u2019s mother said\u200b that she believed there was \u2064more to the\u2063 story \u2014 and objected to the notion that it was time to \u201cturn the \u2063page.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf fault \u2062was to be found in someone wearing fatigues and not a suit, they would have been on trial \u200da long \u200btime ago,\u201d she said, \u200badding, \u201cWe do not want a partial truth or truth told \u200bin a book release\u2026as Americans, we want this truth. As Gold Star families, we deserve this truth. We\u200d deserved it two years ago, and we deserve it today.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe \u2064do not want a partial truth or truth told in a book\u200b release\u2026as \u2062Americans, we \u2064want this truth. As Gold Star families, \u2062we deserve this truth. We deserved it two years ago, and we deserve \u200dit today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(26\/xx)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1688619804490608643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7,\u2062 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep. \u2064Issa has promised to get to \u2064the\u2064 bottom of the issue, saying, \u201cThe Biden Administration lied to every\u200c one of these Gold Star families. That\u2019s why we brought them forward. These are the words the \u2064White House doesn\u2019t want you to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The\u200d Biden Administration lied to every\u2064 one of these Gold Star families.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we brought \u200dthem forward. These are the\u2063 words the White\u200b House doesn\u2019t want you to hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Darrell Issa (@repdarrellissa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repdarrellissa\/status\/1688656144817180673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Star families criticized President Biden and his administration for the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal. During an event in Escondido, California, organized by Mayor Dane White and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), these family members expressed their grievances over the loss of their loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1993584,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1993583","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}