{"id":2017870,"date":"2023-08-31T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-meet-with-afghan-withdrawal-gold-star-families-at-bedminster-after-biden-treated-them-poorly\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:35:36","slug":"trump-to-meet-with-afghan-withdrawal-gold-star-families-at-bedminster-after-biden-treated-them-poorly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-meet-with-afghan-withdrawal-gold-star-families-at-bedminster-after-biden-treated-them-poorly\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to meet Afghan withdrawal Gold Star families at Bedminster following Biden&#8217;s poor treatment."},"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%2Ftrump-to-meet-with-afghan-withdrawal-gold-star-families-at-bedminster-after-biden-treated-them-poorly%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=2017870&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>Trump to \u200bMeet with Afghan Withdrawal Gold Star Families at Bedminster After Biden Treated Them Poorly<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden may not have the\u200b time of\u200c day to \u2062give to families who lost loved ones in the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan \u2014 but count\u200d on GOP front-runner Donald \u2064Trump to pay them the attention \u200dand respect they\u2019re due.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/08\/30\/exclusive-trump-waltz-to-meet-afghanistan-withdrawal-gold-star-families-at-bedminster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a>,\u200b the former president and GOP Rep. Michael Waltz of\u2063 Florida were scheduled to meet with some of the Gold Star families who lost loved ones in \u2062the\u200c chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan\u2063 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting\u200b at Trump\u2019s \u2062Bedminster, \u2063New Jersey, golf club was scheduled one day after some of the \u200cfamilies testified before \u200ba roundtable hosted by the House Foreign Affairs Committee \u200cin Washington, D.C. \u2014 and on the second anniversary of the\u2062 last\u2063 American plane to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-leaves-behind-many-250-americans-wanted-leave-afghanistan-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leave Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the Tuesday hearing, according \u200cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden\/families-service-members-killed-2021-kabul-airport-attack-demand-accou-rcna102436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>, families expressed their\u2062 disappointment with President Joe Biden\u2019s\u2062 administration for the botched withdrawal, \u2064including the Kabul airport bombing that claimed the lives of \u200b13 U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur so-called leader\u2063 can\u2019t even utter their names in public \u2014 not even once,\u201d said \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-pssed-off-gold-star-dad-end-joe-bidens-political-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Schmitz<\/a>, father of \u200dMarine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, who died in the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Biden has run his \u200c<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 a family\u2062 man \u2026 That campaign slogan\u200b will never work again. We have been seeing what is going on in your family \u2014 and even worse, we\u2019ve seen how you have been treating us, the Gold Star families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere \u200bcannot be anything more cowardly and disgusting with how you \u2062treated us,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou are a \u200cdisgrace to the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cOur so-called leader can\u2019t seem \u2062to even utter their names in public \u2014 not\u2062 even once,\u201d says the Gold Star dad to fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere couldn\u2019t be anything more \u200cdisgusting and cowardly than the way you have treated us. You \u200care a\u2063 disgrace to this nation.\u201d \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UxttDHMt7P\">pic.twitter.com\/UxttDHMt7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC\u200b Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1696605291247181906?\">August 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jaclyn Schmitz,\u2064 Jared Schmitz\u2019 stepmother, read the names of the 13 \u200ctroops who died in the bombing and said they \u2063were \u201cnot just casualties of war,\u201d NBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, \u200dthat were pawns \u2063in some agenda, and we deserve some information and collaboration\u200d from\u2064 all political\u200c parties,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Page, the father of \u2063Marine Cpl. Daegan W. Page, said that the administration\u2019s duplicity was what irked him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been lied to about what happened that day, as\u2062 well as what happened to \u200bour children. We\u2019ve been lied to about our relationship with the Taliban, which, by\u200d the way, have done more to take out the leaders of this attack than our own leadership has,\u201d Page said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, obviously, wasn\u2019t going to be meeting with the Gold Star families\u2062 now \u2014 and when he did so in 2021, reports indicated he made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gold-star-mom-reveals-bidens-heartless-comment-wept-oval-office-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the interaction about \u2062himself<\/a>.\u2064 One family \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sick-new-detail-emerges-biden-gold-star-families-afghanistan-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged the president asserted<\/a>, erroneously, that his son Beau had died in \u2063combat.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Waltz \u200baimed to fix that, according to the Florida congressman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve\u200b been obviously dealing with Gold Star families and keeping\u2064 in touch with them \u2014 I\u2063 sadly have a lot of experience with Gold \u200bStar families from the Green Berets and others that have been lost over time,\u201d Waltz said, Breitbart \u2063reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat has been\u200c so striking to me is obviously \u200cthere is\u200c a level of grief there, to lose \u200ba child is just hard to\u2063 imagine, but I\u2019ve\u2062 never in 20 years of dealing with \u200dthe \u2062Gold\u200b Star community, I\u2019ve never come across a group\u200b that\u2019s so angry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Trump campaign official confirmed the\u200c event and touted the former president\u2019s commitment to\u200d those who lost loved ones in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no bigger champion of America\u2019s military members, and their families as well, than President Trump,\u201d\u2062 the official told Breitbart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrast that with \u200dJoe Biden\u2019s total lack of respect for our military and his disastrous and embarrassing withdrawal\u200b in Afghanistan that led to the death of \u200bAmerican troops, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-meet-with-afghan-withdrawal-gold-star-families-at-bedminster-after-biden-treated-them-poorly\/\" title=\"Trump to meet Afghan withdrawal Gold Star families at Bedminster following Biden's poor treatment.\">put additional lives<\/a> at risk, and emboldened the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not that contrast shows up in the polls is another issue entirely; thanks to numerous other crises on the national and global stage,\u200c the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan \u200chas been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elder-legacy-media-bidens-lies-slide-difference-administration-makes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mostly forgotten by the\u2063 media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the two-year\u200d anniversary of the fall of Kabul \u2064\u2014 including the bombing which claimed the lives of those 13 troops and \u2064170 Afghanis \u2014 reminds us all of just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-meeting-gold-star-family-blows-face-family-members-walk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who Joe Biden is<\/a>. Mark Schmitz, in his testimony Tuesday, may \u200bhave best summed up the affect it had on him: \u201cI identify as a father, a husband, a pissed-off, fed-up American patriot and now, thanks to this administration, a Gold Star dad \u2014 a title no one ever wants to have,\u201d NBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>It \u2062was Joe Biden who\u200b took Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-of-pssed-off-gold-star-dad-should-end-joe-bidens-political-career\/\" title=\"Angry Gold Star Dad's Video Could Ruin Biden's Political Future\">conditional withdrawal plan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-officials-turn-reveal-really-feel-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made it unconditional<\/a>. The blood is on his hands \u2062\u2014 and if he\u2019s not\u200c going to answer to the families affected by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-bidens-crippling-fear-of-the-taliban-red-line-is-a-green-light-for-our-enemes\/\" title=\"OPINION: Biden\u2019s Crippling Fear Of The Taliban \u2018Red Line\u2019 Is A Green Light For Our Enemes\">disastrous decision-making<\/a>, some presidential candidate needs to. After all, these Gold\u200c Star families can\u2019t forget. Maybe this time, America won\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-meet-afghan-withdrawal-gold-star-families-bedminster-biden-treated-poorly\/\">Trump to Meet with Afghan Withdrawal Gold\u200c Star Families at\u2063 Bedminster \u200dAfter Biden Treated \u200dThem Poorly<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden may not prioritize families affected by the Afghanistan withdrawal, but GOP front-runner Donald Trump and GOP Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida are committed to giving them the attention and respect they deserve, as reported by Breitbart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2017871,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2017870","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}