{"id":2015960,"date":"2023-08-29T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T22:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-knee-deep-in-bulls-gold-star-father-mark-schmitz-unloads-on-biden-admin\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T22:40:04","slug":"were-knee-deep-in-bulls-gold-star-father-mark-schmitz-unloads-on-biden-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-knee-deep-in-bulls-gold-star-father-mark-schmitz-unloads-on-biden-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Star Father Mark Schmitz slams Biden Admin: &#8220;We&#8217;re drowning in lies.&#8221;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwere-knee-deep-in-bulls-gold-star-father-mark-schmitz-unloads-on-biden-admin%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=2015960&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 Father\u200c Mark Schmitz Calls Out\u200d Military Leadership\u2064 and President Joe Biden<\/h2>\n<p>Gold Star \u200dfather Mark Schmitz held nothing back during his Tuesday\u200d testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-levin-nytimes-msnbc-so-many-more-are-racist-and-anti-semitic\/\" title=\"Mark Levin: NYTimes, MSNBC, So Many More Are 'Racist and Anti-Semitic'\">taking direct aim<\/a> at military\u200b leadership in addition to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> and\u2062 former Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitz\u2063 lost his \u200dson,\u200d Lance CPL Jared Schmitz, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rep-issa-called-on-biden-to-meet-with-gold-star-families-from-kabul-bombing-so-far-no-comment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-least-10-us-service-members-now-reported-killed-in-kabul-bombings-death-toll-likely-to-rise\/\" title=\"At Least 10 US Service Members Now Reported Killed In Kabul Bombings, \u2018Death Toll Likely To Rise\u2019\">suicide bomb attack<\/a><\/a> on Hamid Karzai International Airport\u2019s Abbey Gate in Kabul on August 26, \u200d2021. Two years\u200c later, he and a number of other Gold Star family members are still looking for answers after the chaotic withdrawal\u2062 from\u2064 Afghanistan left 13 American service members dead and dozens more\u200c wounded.<\/p>\n<h3>WATCH:<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow. Mark Schmitz, whose son\u2063 was killed in Kabul during the Biden Afghanistan withdrawal, goes scorched earth.<\/p>\n<p>Says\u2062 the admin has \u200bthe families &#8220;knee-deep\u2064 in bullshit,&#8221; Biden is a &#8220;disgrace&#8221; to the \u200cUnited States,\u200d and Blinken\/Austin need to &#8220;pack up their shit&#8221; and resign. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q1dWugT9an\">pic.twitter.com\/q1dWugT9an<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dylan\u200c Housman (@Dylan_Housman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dylan_Housman\/status\/1696603882489512398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTwo years has gone by, and where \u2064are we? To be frank, we\u2019re knee deep\u200c in bulls***, is where we \u200dare,\u201d Schmitz began his remarks by laying into those who had been in leadership positions during\u2062 the\u200b troop drawdown and then withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone who held a key position in the military still has that\u200b position or has been promoted. John Kirby still sits on his perch, which apparently faces in the opposite \u200cdirection \u200cfrom where all the action was,\u201d Schmitz said. \u201cBlinken continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-knee-deep-in-bulls-gold-star-father-mark-schmitz-unloads-on-biden-admin\/\" title=\"Gold Star Father Mark Schmitz slams Biden Admin: \"We're drowning in lies.\"\">delay\u200d key evidence<\/a> by ignoring or \u2062delaying subpoenas. Not a single general slapped down their stars, which should have happened two years ago when Biden ignored reliable intelligence. Not a single person has been held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmitz \u200dthen turned his attention to President \u200dJoe Biden, noting as several of the\u200d other Gold Star family members have that Biden has \u2063not mentioned their loved \u200dones by name even once in the two years since they \u200dfell in service to\u200c the \u2064country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Biden has \u2062run his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-cant-solve-our-cancel-culture-problem\/\" title=\"Government Can\u2019t Solve our Cancel Culture Problem\">entire political campaign<\/a> for 50 years as \u2018the family man.\u2019 \u200dWell, I\u2019ve got news\u200b for \u200dyou, Sir. The curtain has been lifting, and that campaign slogan will never work again,\u201d \u200cSchmitz continued. \u201cWe have seen\u200b what\u2019s going on in your family.\u2063 And\u2063 even worse, we\u2019ve seen\u2064 the way you\u2019ve been treating \u2062us as \u2062Gold Star families. And there couldn\u2019t be anything more\u200c disgusting and cowardly than the way you have treated us. You are a disgrace to this nation. You have no business\u2063 having ultimate command\u2062 over our military,\u2063 and I regret not \u2064saying that to your face\u200c when I had the\u200d opportunity in Dover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmitz went on to \u2063say that \u200dhe \u2063had initially\u200d opted\u200c to hold back out of respect for the \u2062other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governor-cuomo-may-be-in-trouble-melissa-derosa-is-his-assistant-who-outed-him-and-her-mother-in-law-audrey-strauss-is-head-of-the-dojs-sdny\/\" title=\"Governor Cuomo May Be In Trouble \u2013 Melissa DeRosa Is His Assistant Who Outed Him and Her Mother-in-Law, Audrey Strauss, Is Head of the DOJ\u2019s SDNY\">grieving family members<\/a> who were also there to collect their loved ones\u2019 remains.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET \u2064THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I stood\u200b there on the \u2063tarmac, \u200cwatching you check your watch over and over again, all I wanted to do \u200dwas shout out, \u2018It\u2019s \u20622-f***ing-thirty, a**hole.\u2019 But out\u2063 of respect to the \u2063other grieving\u200c families, I bit my tongue once again,\u201d he said. \u201cAs\u2064 you can probably tell by now, I\u2019m \u200cdone biting my tongue. You, Sir, stole\u2062 their lives, their futures, their dreams \u2014 and have ripped apart thirteen families. You cannot even man up and admit that. You, Sir, gave us all\u2062 the title \u2018Gold Star Family.\u2019\u200c You, Sir,\u200c discredit honor and integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other family members\u2064 have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gold-star-mom-and-wounded-vet-torch-heartless-biden-say-he-made-visits-all-about-beau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized Biden<\/a> \u200d both for his handling\u2064 of the exit from\u2062 Afghanistan and his\u2062 treatment of those who lost\u200c loved ones\u200b in the final days, calling him \u201cheartless\u201d and\u2063 noting that he had attempted to make their meetings all\u200b about \u2062himself and his \u200blate son, Beau Biden, who died of brain \u200dcancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Star father Mark Schmitz didn&#8217;t hold back in his testimony, targeting military leadership, President Biden, and ex-Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. Schmitz, who lost his son in the Kabul airport attack, expressed his grievances before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2015961,"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-2015960","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\/2015960","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=2015960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}