{"id":2030909,"date":"2023-09-13T17:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-honors-gold-star-families-with-night-to-remember-painting-stark-contrast-with-bidens-disrespect\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:29:40","slug":"trump-honors-gold-star-families-with-night-to-remember-painting-stark-contrast-with-bidens-disrespect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-honors-gold-star-families-with-night-to-remember-painting-stark-contrast-with-bidens-disrespect\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pays tribute to Gold Star families, highlighting the stark difference in treatment compared to Biden&#8217;s disrespect."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-honors-gold-star-families-with-night-to-remember-painting-stark-contrast-with-bidens-disrespect%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=2030909&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>President Biden&#8217;s Lack of \u200dCompassion Towards Gold \u200dStar Families<\/h2>\n<p>According to first-hand accounts, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> \u200ctreated U.S. \u200cGold Star families, whose loved \u200dones\u200c passed away during the disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal,\u200b with a remarkable\u200d lack of compassion \u2014 even for Biden. Former President Donald Trump, on \u200dthe \u200bother hand, honored those same families with the utmost respect and dignity\u2062 on\u2062 a recent night to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t take this author\u2019s words for it, listen to the mothers and fathers\u200b of the\u200d brave American \u200csoldiers who died in 2021 after a bomb detonated at\u200d the Kabul airport, killing 13 of America\u2019s bravest. Trump hosted relatives of those heroes at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on August 31.<\/p>\n<p>For example, per a <a href=\"https:\/\/thespectator.com\/topic\/gold-star-families-trump-bedminster-jake-tapper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from The Spectator\u2019s Matthew Foldi, Paula Knauss Selph \u2014 the mother of Army\u200c Staff\u2063 Sergeant Ryan Knauss \u2063\u2014 was moved to tears as Trump wrote on\u2062 her son\u2019s \u200bphoto, \u201cYou are My Hero.\u201d Knauss Selph told Foldi that those are \u200cthe exact same words\u200d she uses to describe her \u2063son.<\/p>\n<p>Now, \u2064contrast that moment with Biden\u2019s treatment\u2064 of the anguished parent.<\/p>\n<p>Knauss Selph, who now serves as the executive director of the Respect and Remember Foundation, met with Biden in\u200d the Oval Office at\u2063 an \u200devent for Gold Star families in\u200b Washington, \u200cD.C., on Memorial Day\u2063 2022, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/afghanistan-gold-star-mom-i-wept-wanted-comfort-from-biden-he-suggested-a-photo-with-him-instead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At\u2064 first, Biden said to\u200d her, \u201cI can understand if you\u2019re\u2062 angry,\u201d when\u2064 they were face to face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stood face-to-face with him, eyeball-to-eyeball. I began to weep,\u201d she said, saying that\u2063 she told him, \u201cIt should have never \u200bhappened this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe stood there stoically,\u201d she said of\u2062 Biden. \u2063\u201cNothing\u2063 out of his mouth except \u2014 well would you like to get a photo \u200dwith me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knauss Selph told Biden she would only \u200cagree\u2062 to a photo of it was of her and the president at her son\u2019s tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>He declined, \u200cclaiming that the Secret Service would not \u2064let him do\u200d so.<\/p>\n<p>After that \u2062experience, Knauss Selph\u2063 blasted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/\" title=\"Media Say Biden's Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now\">current president<\/a>, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a moral disgrace for a president not to have mercy on the people that he serves. It is a moral \u200ddisgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She wasn\u2019t alone in her sentiments toward the two presidents.<\/p>\n<p>Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of the late Sergeant Nicole Gee, told Foldi, \u201cTrump was way more than I \u200cexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contrast is stark \u2064with the president we met at [Dover Air Force Base],\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Shamblin testified \u200dbefore Congress, \u201cThe \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/softballs-and-adoration-read-the-questions-reporters-have-asked-bidens-press-secretary\/\" title=\"Softballs And Adoration: Read The \u2018Questions\u2019 Reporters Have Asked Biden\u2019s Press Secretary\">administration didn\u2019<\/a>t seem to know our story,\u201d\u200c while adding that \u201cwhen\u200d it came to the people in suits, it felt\u2063 disingenuous and hollow.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Compassionate Gesture<\/h3>\n<p>Meanwhile, President\u2063 Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-honors-gold-star-families-with-night-to-remember-painting-stark-contrast-with-bidens-disrespect\/\" title=\"Trump pays tribute to Gold Star families, highlighting the stark difference in treatment compared to Biden's disrespect.\">administration\u200c recently released<\/a> a report calling the withdrawal a \u201csuccess\u201d \u2063and Biden has said the withdrawal \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/14\/1027696241\/biden-said-the-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-would-be-safe-then-chaos-ensued\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was<\/a> \u2063\u201cresponsible,\u2064 deliberate and\u2062 safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, readers know the lapdog media will never\u2064 cover this story \u2014 it\u200d paints too much of a black-and-white difference between Biden and Trump. Thank goodness for conservative press and social media to get the story\u2063 out there.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the 13 \u2062Americans killed \u2064during the withdrawal can be read here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Sgt. Johanny\u200c Rosario Pichardo, 25 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31 \u200b <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22 \u200c <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Cpl. \u2063Daegan W. Page,\u200b 23 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Cpl. Humberto\u200b A. Sanchez, 22 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Lance Cpl. David L.\u2063 Espinoza, 20 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Lance Cpl.\u2064 Jared M. Schmitz, 20 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20 \u2063 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Navy Corpsman \u200dMaxton W. Soviak, \u206222 <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The\u2063 Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-hand accounts reveal President Joe Biden&#8217;s astonishing lack of compassion towards U.S. Gold Star families affected by the tragic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. 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