{"id":1995553,"date":"2023-08-09T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-under-scrutiny-for-treatment-of-gold-star-families\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:26:22","slug":"biden-under-scrutiny-for-treatment-of-gold-star-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-under-scrutiny-for-treatment-of-gold-star-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Faces Criticism Over Handling of Gold Star Families"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-under-scrutiny-for-treatment-of-gold-star-families%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=1995553&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 class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during an event \u2062on the South Lawn of the White House\u2063 August 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/roy-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Francis<\/a><br \/>12:20 PM \u2013 Wednesday, August \u200b9, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Renewed scrutiny has\u2063 been cast on the president and his administration about how they have\u200d treated the families of the 13 service members who \u2064were\u2063 killed in the disastrous\u200b military withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cGold \u2063Star families gave emotional testimonies this past\u2064 week, and called out President Joe Biden and several top cabinet members by name. The families joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/marine-injured-during-afghanistan-withdrawal-recounts-bidens-weird-visit-to-the-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">others<\/a> who had also \u2064demanded answers and accountability. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Biden Administration lied to every\u200d one of these Gold Star families.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we \u2062brought them forward. These are the words the White 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\u200c 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) held \u200da congressional forum on Monday with the \u2063families and invited them to speak their minds, how they feel about everything \u2062that has happened and how they had been\u200b treated since they suffered the losses of their loved \u200cones.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Rex, the mother of Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola said that she has not had any correspondence from the president and that her son has \u2063not \u2062been honored so far, &#8220;or his name spoken by this commander-in-chief or his administration \u2064on what I feel is because of their\u200b failures and poor planning to\u200c exit our troops from Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden had used the occasion of her \u200bson\u2019s death to speak, and lie, about his own son\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;We lost our son as well and brought him home in a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-mocks-u-s-after-withdrawal-supporters-parade-coffin-draped-with-american-flag\/\" title=\"Taliban Mocks U.S. After Withdrawal, Supporters Parade Coffin Draped With American Flag\">flag-draped coffin<\/a>,&#8221; the president reportedly said, even though his son had \u2062died of cancer in \u2064the\u2063 United States after he had finished his\u2062 service in Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u200badministration had also lied to another mother of a service member. Gold Star mom, Kelly Barnett, said that the Biden Administration had \u200btold her\u2063 that her son,\u2063 Staff Sgt. Darin\u200b Taylor Hoover, \u200bhad been killed instantaneously during the bombing at Abbey gate in Afghanistan. However, it was revealed that he had in fact lived for some time afterward.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;We were \u2062told\u200b lies, given incomplete \u200breports, incorrect reports, total\u200c disrespect,&#8221; Barnett said. &#8220;I was told to my face \u200che\u2064 died on impact. That\u2019s\u200b not true. The \u2062only\u2063 reason that I \u200cknow \u200bthis is because witnesses told me the truth. I was lied\u200c to and basically told \u2062to shut up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On top of the administration lying and mistreating the\u200c families\u2064 of those who were killed \u200bthat day, the White House \u200chas \u2062yet to recognize any of the seven service members who survived the bombing only to tragically \u200btake their own lives later on.<\/p>\n<p>According to Issa, the White House has not yet returned the personal items of many of the service members \u200cwho\u200b were \u200bkilled that day to their families. The Biden administration has also seemingly stonewalled \u2064the inquiries of those families.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the withdrawal, along with\u2064 Gold Star families, have called for accountability and\u200c the firing of officials who were in charge of \u2063the disastrous withdrawal, such as Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Defense Secretary Lloy Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley.<\/p>\n<p>However, the President and his cabinet have maintained\u2062 that \u2064the operation \u200bwas an &#8220;extraordinary success,&#8221; despite the suicide bombing\u200b that had claimed 183 \u200blives, including the 13 U.S. service members,\u2063 and the operation requiring thousands of additional \u2062U.S. troops on the ground, leaving behind hundred \u200dof U.S.\u2063 citizens, and \u200ctens of thousands of Afghan allies even\u2062 though the president had promised to \u2063&#8221;get them \u200dall out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the bombing at Abbey gate, the president had \u2064met with the \u2062family members of the 13 service members who lost their lives in\u2063 Dover,\u2063 Delaware. Several of the family members criticized\u200b the president for repeatedly speaking\u200c about his son, Beau, and repeatedly \u200bchecking his watch during the \u2062dignified transfer of the deceased\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;That didn\u2019t \u2063happen just once. It happened\u200c on every single\u2063 one that came\u2064 out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them. They would release the salute, and he would look down at his watch on every last one, all\u2063 13, he looked down at his watch,&#8221; Darin Hoover, father of Utah Marine Darin Taylor \u200cHoover Jr. said on Fox News\u2019 &#8220;Hannity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One\u200d of \u2063the sisters of Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum who had met with the\u200b president in Delaware, along with McCollum\u2019s \u2063pregnant widow, said\u2063 that he would not look the family in the eye and, again,\u200c spent the whole time speaking about Beau.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;I was able to stand\u200b about 15 seconds of his fake, scripted apology \u200dand I had to walk\u200c away,&#8221; Cheyenne McCollum told Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are now multiple Gold Star families \u2064from Joe Biden&#8217;s Kabul disaster\u2064 who say that he was rude towards them and only wanted to talk about his own son.<\/p>\n<p>If it was President Trump, it would be \u2064the biggest story in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the media ignores it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsforTX\/status\/1688930061993508865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, \u200d2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After the testimony of\u200c the Gold Star families on Monday, it was revealed \u2064that ABC, CBS, and NBC all had ignored the \u200dhearing and did not broadcast it according to the Media\u200c Research Center (MRC).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;All three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-under-scrutiny-for-treatment-of-gold-star-families\/\" title=\"Biden Faces Criticism Over Handling of Gold Star Families\">evening news networks thumbed<\/a> their \u200cnose at\u2063 the\u2064 Gold Star families by ignoring the hearing,&#8221; news analyst Kevin\u2064 Tober said. &#8220;Instead of covering the\u2063 hearing, ABC\u2019s\u200c \u2018World\u200c News Tonight,\u2019 \u2018CBS Evening News,\u2019 and \u2018NBC Nightly\u2064 News\u2019 wasted\u200c airtime by covering the Mega Millions lottery numbers (ABC), the\u2062 anti-American women\u2019s soccer team losing in the \u2062World Cup (CBS), and another update \u200con an \u200dinvestigation into a plastic plant fire \u200b(NBC).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Department of Defense\u2064 released a statement \u2064after the hearing expressing their \u2062&#8221;deepest condolences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;The Department of Defense expresses \u200cour deepest condolences to the Gold Star Families who lost loved ones during the tragic bombing at Abbey Gate,&#8221; the\u200c statement read. &#8220;We are forever grateful \u2064for their service, sacrifice,\u200b and committed efforts during the evacuation operations. \u2063We also commend the historic and monumental efforts of all our service \u200bmen and women who served honorably \u2062during the withdrawal period from Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The 13 service who had lost their lives were:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, of\u200c Lawrence, Massachusetts, assigned to 5th \u2064Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Naval Support Activity Bahrain.<\/li>\n<li>Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, \u200b23, of Sacramento, California, assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, II Marine Expeditionary\u2064 Force, \u200dCamp \u2063Lejeune, North Carolina.<\/li>\n<li>Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-huge-military-disadvantage-congressman-writes-usmc-general-requests-disclosure-over-vaccine-related-troop-dismissals\/\" title=\"\u2018A Huge Military Disadvantage\u2019: Congressman Writes USMC General, Requests Disclosure Over Vaccine-Related Troop Dismissals\">military occupational specialty<\/a>\u2063 was\u2062 0369, infantry unit leader.<\/li>\n<li>Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio, California, a rifleman.<\/li>\n<li>Cpl. Daegan W.\u200b Page, 23, of Omaha, Nebraska, a rifleman.<\/li>\n<li>Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Indiana, \u2064a rifleman.<\/li>\n<li>Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20, of Rio Bravo, Texas, a rifleman.<\/li>\n<li>Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20, of St. Charles, Missouri, a rifleman.<\/li>\n<li>Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum,\u200b 20, of Jackson, Wyoming, a rifleman.<\/li>\n<li>Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola,\u2064 20,\u2062 of Rancho Cucamonga, California, a rifleman.<\/li>\n<li>Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20,\u2063 of\u200b Norco, California.<\/li>\n<li>Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, \u2063of Berlin Heights, Ohio, assigned to 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California.<\/li>\n<li>Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23, of Corryton, Tennessee. Knauss\u200d was assigned to\u2064 9th PSYOP Battalion, 8th PSYOP \u2062Group, Ft. Bragg,\u2064 North \u2063Carolina.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay\u200b informed! 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