{"id":702369,"date":"2021-08-31T07:22:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=702369"},"modified":"2021-08-31T07:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:22:03","slug":"gold-star-fathers-blast-biden-for-looking-at-watch-during-dignified-transfer-most-disrespectful-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gold-star-fathers-blast-biden-for-looking-at-watch-during-dignified-transfer-most-disrespectful-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Star Fathers Blast Biden For Looking At Watch During Dignified Transfer: \u2018Most Disrespectful Thing\u2019"},"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\">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%2Fgold-star-fathers-blast-biden-for-looking-at-watch-during-dignified-transfer-most-disrespectful-thing%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=702369&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\/Biden-watch-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gold Star fathers Mark Schmitz and Darin Hoover slammed President Joe Biden during a Fox News interview on Monday night for appearing to repeatedly look at his watch while participating in the dignified transfer of the 13 U.S. service members who died in a terrorist attack last week in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn reference to the checking of his watch, that didn\u2019t happen just once,\u201d said Hoover, who lost his son, Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, in the attack. \u201cThat happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them. They would release the salute, and he would look down at his watch on every last one \u2013 all 13 \u2013 he looked down at his watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a father, you know, seeing that and the disrespect, and hearing from his former leaders, one of his master sergeants said exactly what you just said, that this was avoidable, that they left them over there,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey let them down, we can\u2019t have that. It can\u2019t happen ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Schmitz, who lost his son, Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, what he thought about the watch incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually leaned into my son\u2019s mother\u2019s ear in I said I swear to god if he checks his watch one more time and was probably only four times in, I couldn\u2019t look at him anymore after that,\u201d Schmitz said. \u201cConsidering especially &nbsp;the time and why we were there, I found it to be the most disrespectful thing I\u2019d ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.291666666667\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gold Star fathers Mark Schmitz &amp; Darin Hoover, whose sons died in Kabul last week, on Democrat President Joe Biden checking his watch during the dignified transfer of their son&#8217;s bodies: <\/p>\n<p>Schmitz: &#8220;most disrespectful thing I&#8217;d ever seen&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hoover: &#8220;that didn&#8217;t happen just once&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/annpJWspto\">pic.twitter.com\/annpJWspto<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonrantz\/status\/1432574041659887621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-meeting-fallen-americans-families\/2021\/08\/30\/07ecff7c-09ac-11ec-a6dd-296ba7fb2dce_story.html\">reported<\/a> that a similar incident allegedly happened when Biden met with a family member from a different family that lost a loved one:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>Some of the grieving relatives felt a need to interact directly with the president after losing their loved one, including Jiennah McCollum, who married [Marine Corps Lance Cpl.] Rylee McCollum just six months ago and is due to give birth to the couple\u2019s child next month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGigi wanted to look him in the eye and hear him,\u201d McCollum\u2019s sister Roice said in a text message to The Washington Post, using Jiennah\u2019s nickname.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Roice recounted that Jiennah left disappointed. The president, she said, kept checking his watch and bringing up Beau.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe cannot possibly understand,\u201d Roice told The Washington Post. \u201cMy dad and I did not want to speak to him. You cannot kneel on our flag and pretend you care about our troops. You can\u2019t f\u2014 up as bad as he did and say you\u2019re sorry. This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands. The thousands of Afghans who will suffer and be tortured is a direct result of his incompetence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-meeting-with-pregnant-wife-of-marine-killed-in-kabul-scripted-and-shallow-total-disregard-to-the-loss-family-claims\">Biden Meeting With Pregnant Wife Of Marine Killed In Kabul \u2018Scripted And Shallow,\u2019 \u2018Total Disregard To The Loss,\u2019 Family Claims<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Star fathers Mark Schmitz and Darin Hoover slammed President Joe Biden during a Fox News interview on Monday night for appearing to repeatedly look at his watch while participating &#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-702369","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\/702369","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=702369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702369\/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=702369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}