{"id":2333433,"date":"2024-08-29T11:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-got-troops-killed-in-kabul-but-media-are-mad-at-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:29:19","slug":"biden-got-troops-killed-in-kabul-but-media-are-mad-at-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-got-troops-killed-in-kabul-but-media-are-mad-at-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Got Troops Killed In Kabul, But Media Are Mad At Trump"},"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%2Fbiden-got-troops-killed-in-kabul-but-media-are-mad-at-trump%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=2333433&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--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblowers-claim-trumps-butler-rally-had-lax-security-38\/\" title=\"Whistleblowers claim Trump&#039;s Butler Rally had lax security\">article discusses allegations made<\/a> by NPR regarding former\u200b President \u200bTrump\u200d and his team&#8217;s\u2064 behavior during a recent\u2064 visit to\u200c Arlington National Cemetery. The claims suggest\u200c that \u200cTrump&#8217;s team\u2062 had a verbal and physical \u2062confrontation with a\u200d cemetery official and \u200battempted to record in\u2062 a restricted \u200darea\u200b where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The allegations come in \u200dthe context of Trump&#8217;s visit, which was reportedly requested by Gold Star families whose loved ones died during the Afghanistan withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of \u200cthe NPR piece are\u2063 accused of framing Trump&#8217;s actions as problematic while ignoring the lack of substantial engagement from the Biden administration with these families. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung denied the\u200c claims of a physical\u200c altercation and indicated that a private photographer was authorized to be\u2064 present.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Star family \u200bmembers, who were in attendance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-defense-officials-check-on-israel-as-political-crisis-fuels-civil-war-anxiety\/\" title=\"US defense officials monitor Israel amid political crisis, fearing escalation to &#039;civil war&#039;.\">publicly expressed gratitude<\/a> for Trump&#8217;s \u2062visit and\u200b clarified that they had invited him to\u2062 honor their \u200bdeceased relatives, stating that \u200dhe and his team acted with respect. The article suggests\u200c that NPR&#8217;s report aligns with previous\u200c narratives aimed at discrediting \u200bTrump, likening it to past debunked\u200c accusations that he disparaged\u200c fallen service members.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Legacy media have found their latest hoax to run about Donald Trump, and this time it&rsquo;s to convince you that he hates America&rsquo;s fallen troops. <\/p>\n<p>The entire non-troversy began earlier this week, when anti-truth NPR ran an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/08\/27\/nx-s1-5091154\/trump-arlington-cemetery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anonymously sourced article<\/a> with claims that members of Trump&rsquo;s team &ldquo;had a verbal and physical altercation&rdquo; with an Arlington National Cemetery official during the former president&rsquo;s Monday visit. Trump was there at the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1828822658131374343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">request<\/a> of Gold Star families whose loved ones were killed during President Joe Biden&rsquo;s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal three years ago this week.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than probe why both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris only issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/08\/26\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-anniversary-of-the-terrorist-attack-outside-kabul-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meaningless <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/08\/26\/statement-by-vice-president-harris-on-the-anniversary-of-the-terrorist-attack-outside-kabul-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statements<\/a> and did not visit Arlington to honor the troops who died on their watch, NPR hack-tivists Quil Lawrence and Tom Bowman apparently felt it was their job to run interference for their Democrat allies&rsquo; negligence by making Trump&rsquo;s Arlington visit appear problematic.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous source cited by the authors allegedly claimed the aforementioned Arlington official &ldquo;tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried&rdquo; and that cemetery staff &ldquo;had made clear that only cemetery staff members would be authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.&rdquo; The unidentified official further contended members of Trump&rsquo;s campaign &ldquo;verbally abused and pushed the official aside.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The authors attempted to paint the Trump team&rsquo;s efforts to photograph the commemorations as an &ldquo;election-related&rdquo; campaign activity that violates federal law. Funny how neither bothered to raise concerns about Biden committing using shots of military grave markers in <em>actual<\/em> political <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MichaelDuncan\/status\/1829110307182010806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign ads<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung rejected the claim there was a physical altercation, telling NPR, &ldquo;The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump&rsquo;s team during a very solemn ceremony.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, nowhere in their article do Lawrence and Bowman indicate if they bothered to reach out to any of the Gold Star families in attendance for comment on the alleged matter. If they had, they might have learned how appreciative these families were for Trump&rsquo;s attendance and that the former president&rsquo;s team had their permission to document the event.<\/p>\n<p>In their <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MatthewFoldi\/status\/1828822658131374343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">joint statement<\/a>, several of the families thanked Trump for appearing at Arlington to honor their loved ones and affirmed the former president and his team &ldquo;conducted themselves with nothing but the utmost respect and dignity for all of our service members.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had given approval for President Trump&rsquo;s official videographer and photographer to attend the event, ensuring these sacred moments of remembrance were respectfully captured and so we can cherish these memories forever,&rdquo; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>Darin Hoover, whose son Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover died in Afghanistan, separately <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/08\/28\/exclusive-gold-star-families-had-trouble-getting-trump-into-arlington-until-house-speaker-intervened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a> to The Daily Caller it was the Gold Star families who &ldquo;extended the invitation to President Trump&rdquo; and &ldquo;asked him to come.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump didn&rsquo;t come to us. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-tries-to-leverage-momentum-with-gop-and-battleground-voter-outreach-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Harris tries to leverage momentum with GOP and battleground voter outreach - Washington Examiner\">team didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t come to us and say, hey, this would be good for business. Business? No. President Trump has stood by us from day one,&rdquo; Hoover said. &ldquo;He has been compassionate. He has been loving. He&rsquo;s been understanding. He&rsquo;s taking the mantle of our outrage a little bit. Because to be quite honest with you, being very frank, we haven&rsquo;t heard diddly squat from the current administration in three years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While the NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-audio-think-tanks-star-lawsuit-witness-admits-to-tommy-robinson-that-they-bribed-him-for-testimony-against-us-congressional-staffer\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Think Tank\u2019s Star Lawsuit Witness Admits to Tommy Robinson That They Bribed Him For Testimony Against US Congressional Staffer\">hit piece<\/a> bears similar hallmarks to The Atlantic&rsquo;s debunked <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/28\/here-are-the-20-biggest-whoppers-biden-told-during-his-debate-with-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;suckers&rdquo; and &ldquo;losers&rdquo; hoax<\/a>, that didn&rsquo;t stop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-staff-had-physical-altercation-with-arlington-cemetery-official-npr-2024-08-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-wing propaganda outlets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/trump-campaign-arlington-national-cemetery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2024\/08\/28\/trump-campaign-had-incident-arlington-cemetery-staff-during-visit-abbey-gate-bombing-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rushing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/28\/politics\/video\/trumps-arlington-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/trump-arlington-cemetery-controversy-goes-bad-worse-rcna168747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regurgitate<\/a> the outlet&rsquo;s hit piece in an attempt to smear Trump. New York Times &ldquo;reporters&rdquo; Chris Cameron, Maggie Haberman, and Eric Schmitt took their Democrat activism a step further by seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-arlington-cemetery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling up<\/a> members of Gold Star families whose loved ones&rsquo; gravestones appeared in photographs of Monday&rsquo;s commemorations. <\/p>\n<p>The media&rsquo;s gambit could not be more obvious. They are attempting to create a nonexistent controversy based on the bogus notion that Trump disdains America&rsquo;s troops. The truth is that they are more outraged about Trump honoring these 13 heroes&rsquo; memories than they are Biden&rsquo;s role in their deaths or his continued neglect of their families. <\/p>\n<p>If only these same defenders of &ldquo;democracy&rdquo; bothered to care as much about the fact that those 13 lives never made it home.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy media have discovered a new narrative to push against Donald Trump, attempting to portray him as someone who disrespects America\u2019s fallen soldiers. This controversy emerged earlier this week when NPR published an anonymously sourced article alleging that Trump\u2019s team had a \u201cverbal and physical altercation\u201d with an official at Arlington National Cemetery during the former president&#8217;s visit. Trump attended the event at the request of Gold Star families whose loved ones died during President Joe Biden&#8217;s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of questioning why both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris only issued hollow statements without visiting Arlington to honor those who died under their administration, NPR reporters Quil Lawrence and Tom Bowman seemed more focused on deflecting attention from their Democratic allies&#8217; negligence by framing Trump&#8217;s visit as problematic. <\/p>\n<p>The anonymous source claimed that the Arlington official attempted to stop Trump\u2019s staff from filming in an area where recent U.S. casualties are buried, stating that only cemetery staff were allowed to take photos or videos in Section 60. The source also alleged that members of Trump&#8217;s campaign verbally abused and pushed aside the official.<\/p>\n<p>The authors tried to depict Trump&#8217;s efforts to document the commemorations as a violation of federal law related to election activities, conveniently ignoring Biden&#8217;s use of military grave markers in his political ads. In response, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung denied any physical altercation occurred, asserting that a private photographer was allowed on-site while claiming an unnamed individual obstructed Trump&#8217;s team during a solemn ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent from Lawrence and Bowman&#8217;s article is any outreach for comments from Gold Star families present at the event. Had they done so, they would have learned how grateful these families were for Trump&#8217;s presence and that his team had permission to capture the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>In their joint statement, several family members expressed gratitude towards Trump for honoring their loved ones and affirmed that he and his team acted with utmost respect throughout the ceremony. Darin Hoover, whose son Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover was killed in Afghanistan, confirmed separately that it was indeed Gold Star families who invited President Trump: &#8220;He has been compassionate&#8230; We haven\u2019t heard anything from the current administration in three years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite similarities between this NPR piece and The Atlantic&#8217;s debunked &#8220;suckers&#8221; hoax about Trump disparaging troops, left-leaning outlets quickly echoed NPR\u2019s claims in attempts to tarnish Trump&#8217;s reputation further. New York Times reporters even reached out directly to Gold Star family members whose loved ones\u2019 gravestones appeared in photographs taken during Monday\u2019s memorials.<\/p>\n<p>The media&#8217;s strategy is transparent; they aim to fabricate controversy around a false narrative suggesting Trump has disdain for American troops while showing more outrage over his honoring these 13 heroes than over Biden&#8217;s role in their deaths or neglect toward their families since then.<\/p>\n<p>If only these advocates for \u201cdemocracy\u201d showed similar concern for those 13 lives lost instead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2333434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/unnamed-8.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3620,20984,32490,9689,3634],"class_list":["post-2333433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-biden","tag-kabul","tag-media-bias","tag-troops","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/unnamed-8.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333433","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}