{"id":700370,"date":"2021-08-30T16:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700370"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:35:16","slug":"fact-check-did-joe-biden-attend-the-dignified-transfer-ceremony-at-dover-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-joe-biden-attend-the-dignified-transfer-ceremony-at-dover-air-force-base\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Joe Biden Attend The Dignified Transfer Ceremony At Dover Air Force Base?"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-joe-biden-attend-the-dignified-transfer-ceremony-at-dover-air-force-base%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=700370&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234943195-scaled-e1630354835699.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100067133517009\/posts\/168350365412746\/?d=n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims \u201cno representative\u201d from the Biden administration attended Sunday\u2019s dignified transfer of the 13 U.S. service members recently killed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden and other administration officials attended the dignified transfer ceremony on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An Aug. 26 suicide bombing by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/27\/world\/asia\/who-isis-k-afghanistan.html?name=styln-afghanistan&amp;region=TOP_BANNER&amp;block=storyline_menu_recirc&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=LegacyCollection&amp;variant=show&amp;is_new=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Islamic State Khorasan<\/a> (ISIS-K) killed 13 U.S. service members and over 160 Afghan civilians outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/08\/28\/afghanistan-updates-us-drone-strike-isis-k-three-days-deadline\/5629189001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a>. The bodies of the fallen U.S. service members were returned to the U.S. on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/29\/us\/politics\/biden-dignified-transfer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 28 Facebook post claims the Biden administration \u201chad no representative, including the President, First Lady or Vice President, attend the return of 13 KIA service members back onto American soil at Dover Air Force Base.\u201d That is, however, not accurate.<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/27\/fact-check-picture-kabul-airport-attack-bomb\/\">(RELATED: Tweet Claims To Show \u2018Live Picture\u2019 Of The Aug. 26 Kabul Airport Attack)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden, his wife, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and top military officials attended the dignified transfer ceremony at the Delaware base, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/29\/politics\/biden-dover-afghanistan-service-members-killed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. Video of Biden attending was taken by several news organizations, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ek2SW_MuAuA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6270060199001\/#sp=show-clips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fallen service members killed in Afghanistan arrive back in US | ABC News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ek2SW_MuAuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddale8\/status\/1431954163752226816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public schedule<\/a> for Aug. 29, which <a href=\"https:\/\/factba.se\/biden\/calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be found<\/a> on Factba.se, includes the president and first lady attending the dignified transfer ceremony. Biden also met with families of the fallen service members before the ceremony took place, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-meets-with-families-of-service-members-killed-in-kabul-as-us-races-to-exit-afghanistan\/2021\/08\/29\/c185ed78-08ca-11ec-aea1-42a8138f132a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Twitter users, including Republican political consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travisakers\/status\/1431821769267154953\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blair Brandt<\/a>, had initially tweeted on Saturday \u2013 the day before the dignified transfer took place \u2013 that Biden skipped the ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/30\/politics\/fact-check-biden-dover-afghanistan-kabul\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt later deleted his tweet and issued a correction, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlairBrandt\/status\/1431846210797805574?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a> in a Sunday tweet that he meant to say the Biden administration \u201cHAS (not *had*) no plans for the President to attend the return of 13 KIA service members\u201d based on a White House public schedule from the night before the transfer. He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlairBrandt\/status\/1431855478158635010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described<\/a>&nbsp;it as a \u201clate night typo\u201d and \u201cprematurely sent\u201d tweet in another Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s plan to visit Dover was put in place before the tweets made the claim or his attendance was announced on the White House public schedule, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/30\/politics\/fact-check-biden-dover-afghanistan-kabul\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. A White House official told CNN that \u201cthe base asked us not to announce out of respect\u201d and that \u201cthis is similar to what they have done in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims \u201cno representative\u201d from the Biden administration attended Sunday\u2019s dignified transfer of the 13 U.S. service members recently killed in Afghanistan.Verdict: False President Joe Biden, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700370","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}