{"id":2340189,"date":"2024-09-12T12:21:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kirbys-veteran-rebuff-confirms-white-houses-disdain-for-military\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:21:32","slug":"kirbys-veteran-rebuff-confirms-white-houses-disdain-for-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kirbys-veteran-rebuff-confirms-white-houses-disdain-for-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby\u2019s Veteran Rebuff Confirms White House\u2019s Disdain For Military"},"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%2Fkirbys-veteran-rebuff-confirms-white-houses-disdain-for-military%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=2340189&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>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-leaders-agree-to-impose-sanctions-on-belarus-after-forced-flight-diversion\/\" title=\"EU Leaders Agree To Impose Sanctions On Belarus After Forced Flight Diversion\">recent incident involving<\/a> the\u2064 Biden Administration, John \u200dKirby, National Security Communications Advisor, dismissed\u2063 a group of veterans \u2062critical of\u2064 the administration&#8217;s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal, labeling\u200d them\u2062 as &#8220;all of one stripe.&#8221; This\u200c comment was made after veterans, including Rep. Cory Mills, expressed dissatisfaction with Kirby&#8217;s \u200bresponse to a House GOP report detailing the\u2062 chaos of the 2021 withdrawal that resulted in the deaths \u200bof 13 service members. During a press briefing, Kirby called the\u200b report &#8220;one-sided&#8221; and wrongfully accused the \u2064Biden administration \u2063of lacking transparency.<\/p>\n<p>An email,\u2064 mistakenly \u2063sent to Fox News Digital, revealed Kirby\u2019s further \u2063dismissal of the veterans\u2019 concerns, stating there \u200bwas &#8220;obviously no\u2064 use\u2062 in responding&#8221; to a &#8220;handful&#8221; of them. After realizing the error, Kirby \u2063stated he stands by his comments from\u2062 the briefing.\u2063 This situation \u2063highlights a broader\u200d theme where \u2063Biden \u200cadministration officials have faced criticism for allegedly insulting veterans,\u2062 a narrative often used against former President Donald Trump. In a notable \u200dparallel, Vice President Kamala Harris recently revived the \u2063&#8221;suckers and losers&#8221; rhetoric towards Trump \u200bwhile addressing his participation in \u2062a \u2063wreath-laying ceremony at\u200c Arlington\u200d National Cemetery,\u2064 despite her \u2064own controversial role \u200dduring \u200bthe Afghanistan withdrawal.  <\/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>In the Biden Administration&rsquo;s latest &ldquo;suckers and losers&rdquo; scandal, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby waved off a group of veterans critical of the Democrat regime&rsquo;s botched Afghanistan withdrawal as being &ldquo;all of one stripe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The rebuff came on Wednesday after Fox News Digital asked Kirby to weigh in on quotes from four veterans, including Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., who were unsatisfied with the White House official&rsquo;s reaction to a <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WILLFULL-BLINDNESS-An-Assessment-of-the-Biden-Harris%20Administrations-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan-and-the-Chaos-that-Followed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new House GOP report<\/a> highlighting &ldquo;the chaos and instability&rdquo; that took 13 U.S. service members&rsquo; lives in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>During a White House press briefing on Monday, Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2024\/09\/09\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-communications-adviser-john-kirby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that the 350-page report was &ldquo;one-sided,&rdquo; &ldquo;partisan,&rdquo; and wrongfully accused the Biden administration of &ldquo;deception, lying, or lack of transparency.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>In an email chain intended for&nbsp;White House staffers on the National Security Council, Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kirby-no-use-responding-handful-vets-bidens-botched-afghan-withdrawal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">remarked<\/a> that there was &ldquo;Obviously no use in responding&rdquo; to the comment request because it came from &ldquo;A &lsquo;handful&rsquo; of vets indeed and all of one stripe.&rdquo; Kirby did not notice at the time that his reply copied Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Clearly, I didn&rsquo;t realize you were on the chain,&rdquo; Kirby later clarified.<\/p>\n<p>In an official statement, Kirby admitted to the accidental reply-all but claimed to &ldquo;stand by my comments in the briefing room.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats like Kirby often accuse former President Donald Trump of insulting the U.S. military. Since 2020 they and corporate media have specifically capitalized on a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/10\/iraq-war-vet-im-done-being-suckered-by-jeffery-goldbergs-false-reporting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-ways-to-save-the-modern-awards-show\/\" title=\"10 Ways To Save The Modern Awards Show\">fake news report<\/a><\/a> that falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/09\/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers\/615997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused<\/a> Trump of insulting the deceased World War I soldiers in France by calling them &ldquo;losers&rdquo; and &ldquo;suckers&rdquo; to advance this talking point.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic&rsquo;s Jeffrey Goldberg&nbsp;specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/10\/iraq-war-vet-im-done-being-suckered-by-jeffery-goldbergs-false-reporting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed without evidence<\/a>&nbsp;that Trump &ldquo;did not believe it important to honor American war dead&rdquo; and refused to visit the cemetery where they were buried because it would mess up his hair.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nick_ayers\/status\/1303307427773726720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two dozen<\/a>&nbsp;Trump White House officials debunked the hit piece, which only received&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/04\/no-john-kelly-reciting-media-talking-points-about-fake-trump-story-isnt-the-same-as-confirmation\/\">&ldquo;confirmation&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;from one source outside of Goldberg. Even the fake fact-checkers at Snopes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-accused-calling-fallen-us-163600242.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE2hw8D8u7WtueCiW7pMEA0wyxv8rYvq02R5o5wEDAIdZwGC_UBedio--7ny4vGy85GczeS-ohTFk1vPizdgruq1sz1zT2hWrlglvvhaCA69xzrKi-19-jwypqKa16udR-s36ZDacU1lGqByw1c-Fc9tRmXOy-VV7Cz9IfdB5JJk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a>&nbsp;there is &ldquo;no evidence of an audio or video recording of the remarks in question, nor was there any documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes, to independently confirm or deny the alleged quotes&rsquo; authenticity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s Biden administration officials, including the president, vice president, and now Kirby, however, who are on the record insulting veterans behind their backs and to their faces. <\/p>\n<p>Over Labor Day weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/03\/you-got-our-kids-murdered-gold-star-families-lambast-harris-for-politicizing-trumps-appearance-at-arlington-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revived<\/a> the &ldquo;suckers and losers&rdquo;&nbsp;line in her attempt to vilify the former president for participating in a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>Harris,&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/08\/07\/kamala-harris-biden-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;last person in the room&rdquo;<\/a> during the Biden administration&rsquo;s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KamalaHarris\/status\/1829915590468731167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1829915590468731167%7Ctwgr%5E23851cd8ec9874009b9d74aa21880651561530e5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2024%2F09%2F03%2Fyou-got-our-kids-murdered-gold-star-families-lambast-harris-for-politicizing-trumps-appearance-at-arlington-ceremony%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> she will &ldquo;always honor the service and sacrifice of all of America&rsquo;s fallen heroes.&rdquo; The Gold Star families who lost their loved ones at Abbey Gate, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/03\/you-got-our-kids-murdered-gold-star-families-lambast-harris-for-politicizing-trumps-appearance-at-arlington-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said neither Biden nor Harris has ever reached out to them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few months before Harris&rsquo; political stunt, President Joe&nbsp;Biden was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/17\/biden-insults-bronze-star-veteran-in-bona-fide-suckers-and-losers-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">caught lashing out<\/a> against Democrat Rep. Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger who received a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crow.house.gov\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bronze Star Medal<\/a>&nbsp;for his role in the 82nd Airborne Division.<\/p>\n<p>During the exchange on a New Democrat Coalition&nbsp;strategy call in July, Biden demanded Crow, who served&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crow.house.gov\/issues\/national-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan<\/a>, &ldquo;Tell me who did something that you&rsquo;ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1696497580090224957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1696497580090224957%7Ctwgr%5E6350d3dd385f16816d2081bcfd52454a5cf7fdf5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2024%2F07%2F17%2Fbiden-insults-bronze-star-veteran-in-bona-fide-suckers-and-losers-scandal%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">checking a watch<\/a> during a ceremony for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-meeting-with-pregnant-wife-of-marine-killed-in-kabul-scripted-and-shallow-total-disregard-to-the-loss-family-claims\/\" title=\"Biden Meeting With Pregnant Wife Of Marine Killed In Kabul \u2018Scripted And Shallow,\u2019 \u2018Total Disregard To The Loss,\u2019 Family Claims\">deceased service members<\/a> to brushing off veterans&rsquo; legitimate concerns, it&rsquo;s clear that Biden, Harris, and Kirby, not Trump, are the ones who show contempt for men and women who have risked their lives for the country.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest controversy surrounding the Biden Administration, National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby dismissed a group of veterans who criticized the government&#8217;s mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal, labeling them as \u201call of one stripe.\u201d This response occurred on Wednesday after Fox News Digital sought Kirby&#8217;s opinion on statements made by four veterans, including Rep. Cory Mills from Florida, who expressed dissatisfaction with how the White House addressed a new House GOP report detailing \u201cthe chaos and instability\u201d that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members in 2021. During a press briefing earlier in the week, Kirby described the 350-page report as \u201cone-sided,\u201d \u201cpartisan,\u201d and incorrectly accusing the Biden administration of \u201cdeception, lying, or lack of transparency.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In an email meant for National Security Council staffers, Kirby noted that there was &#8220;obviously no use in responding&#8221; to Fox&#8217;s inquiry since it came from &#8220;a \u2018handful\u2019 of vets indeed and all of one stripe.&#8221; He later acknowledged that he hadn\u2019t realized his reply had included Fox News Digital. In an official statement afterward, he admitted to mistakenly replying to all but maintained his stance from the briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats like Kirby frequently accuse former President Donald Trump of disrespecting military personnel. Since 2020, they have exploited a false news story claiming Trump insulted deceased World War I soldiers by referring to them as &#8220;losers&#8221; and &#8220;suckers.&#8221; The Atlantic\u2019s Jeffrey Goldberg made unsubstantiated claims that Trump did not value honoring American war dead and avoided visiting their cemetery due to concerns about his hair.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two dozen officials from Trump&#8217;s White House refuted this narrative; however, it only received validation from one external source outside Goldberg\u2019s reporting. Even fact-checking site Snopes conceded there is no evidence supporting any audio or video recordings or documentation confirming these alleged remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it is Biden administration officials\u2014including President Biden himself\u2014who have been recorded making disparaging comments about veterans both privately and publicly. Over Labor Day weekend Vice President Kamala Harris revived accusations against Trump while criticizing him for participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Despite her claims about honoring fallen heroes&#8217; sacrifices during her involvement in Afghanistan&#8217;s chaotic withdrawal process last year, Gold Star families reported that neither she nor Biden has reached out to them following their losses.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, prior to Harris\u2019 comments aimed at political gain, President Joe Biden confronted Democratic Rep. Jason Crow\u2014a former Army Ranger awarded a Bronze Star\u2014during a strategy call in July by questioning Crow\u2019s military achievements compared to those of his late son.<\/p>\n<p>From checking his watch during memorial services for fallen service members to dismissing veterans&#8217; valid concerns outrightly shows that it is indeed Biden along with Harris and Kirby\u2014not Trump\u2014who exhibit disdain towards those who have served their country honorably<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2340190,"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\/09\/53234687296_6f7ce2027f_o-scaled-e1726153014810.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40745,7879,40744,38802,32127],"class_list":["post-2340189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-defense-policy","tag-kirby","tag-military-disdain","tag-veteran-affairs","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/53234687296_6f7ce2027f_o-scaled-e1726153014810.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340189","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2340190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}