Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ive-been-shot-at-combat-veteran-blows-up-msnbc-guests-claim-that-florida-is-a-terrorist-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Waltz</a> (R-FL) unloaded Thursday on outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/incidents-happen-gen-milley-wont-consider-russia-dropping-u-s-drone-an-act-of-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Milley</a>, panning a &#8220;puff piece&#8221; published by The Atlantic and adding, &#8220;His retirement couldn&#8217;t come soon enough.&#8221;
Waltz, a retired Colonel in the Army National Guard and veteran Green Beret, aired his grievances with Milley — who is set to retire at the end of the month — in a lengthy and detailed thread posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
&#8220;Just read the Atlantic puff piece on Mark Milley&#8217;s exit interview polishing his legacy with the DC media while criticizing elected officials in uniform. His retirement couldn&#8217;t come soon enough,&#8221; Waltz said.
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Just read the Atlantic puff piece on Mark Milley&#39;s exit interview polishing his legacy with the DC media while criticizing elected officials in uniform. 
His retirement couldn&#39;t come soon enough.
&mdash; Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1704976921824473266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The decorated combat veteran began by listing several ways he believed the U.S. military had strayed from its core values and mission under Milley&#8217;s leadership, saying, &#8220;Under Milley, our military has become politicized and trust in the military is in free fall. His &#8216;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Rage</a>&#8216; outburst — in uniform — was an enormous disservice to our troops as he defended CRT indoctrination, a Marxist theory, before Congress.&#8221;
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We have overwhelming evidence of indoctrination taking place within our ranks and at our military academies. 
Insane DEI programs are being forced on our troops that is infecting the merit based system.
&mdash; Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1704977377342726146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We have overwhelming evidence of indoctrination taking place within our ranks and at our military academies. Insane DEI programs are being forced on our troops that is infecting the merit based system,&#8221; Waltz continued.
He concluded with the ways he believed Milley — in coordination with President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — had allowed for a number of failures in national security.
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&#8220;He’s also stood alongside Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin as our national security has become weaker: Worst military debacle since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-this-is-not-saigon-cnn-its-worse-than-saigon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saigon</a>; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-frantically-worked-to-finalize-climate-plan-during-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-emails-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan withdrawal</a>; Worst military <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-pronouns-less-recruits-u-s-military-facing-unprecedented-recruiting-crisis-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recruitment crisis</a> since Vietnam; Chinese <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-information-revealed-about-chinese-spy-balloon-that-crossed-u-s-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spy balloon</a> drifting across America; Failure to deter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-torches-biden-why-did-putin-not-invade-ukraine-when-trump-was-in-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian invasion</a> of Ukraine.&#8221;
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Congressman And Green Beret Explodes On Mark Milley: 'His Retirement Couldn't Come Soon Enough'

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According to first-hand accounts, President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> treated U.S. Gold Star families, whose loved ones passed away during the disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, with a remarkable lack of compassion — even for Biden. Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, honored those same families with the utmost respect and dignity on a recent night to remember.
Don&#8217;t take this author&#8217;s words for it, listen to the mothers and fathers of the brave American soldiers who died in 2021 after a bomb detonated at the Kabul airport, killing 13 of America&#8217;s bravest. Trump hosted relatives of those heroes at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on August 31.
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&#8217;s Matthew Foldi, Paula Knauss Selph — the mother of Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss — was moved to tears as Trump wrote on her son&#8217;s photo, &#8220;You are My Hero.&#8221; Knauss Selph told Foldi that those are the exact same words she uses to describe her son.
Now, contrast that moment with Biden&#8217;s treatment of the anguished parent.
Knauss Selph, who now serves as the executive director of the Respect and Remember Foundation, met with Biden in the Oval Office at an event for Gold Star families in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day 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>.
At first, Biden said to her, “I can understand if you’re angry,&#8221; when they were face to face.
“I stood face-to-face with him, eyeball-to-eyeball. I began to weep,&#8221; she said, saying that she told him, “It should have never happened this way.”
“He stood there stoically,” she said of Biden. “Nothing out of his mouth except — well would you like to get a photo with me?&#8221;
Knauss Selph told Biden she would only agree to a photo if it was of her and the president at her son’s tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery.
He declined, claiming that the Secret Service would not let him do so.
After that experience, Knauss Selph blasted the current president, saying, &#8220;It’s a moral disgrace for a president not to have mercy on the people that he serves. It is a moral disgrace.&#8221;
She wasn&#8217;t alone in her sentiments toward the two presidents.
Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of the late Sergeant Nicole Gee, told Foldi, &#8220;Trump was way more than I expected.&#8221;
&#8220;The contrast is stark with the president we met at [Dover Air Force Base],&#8221; she added.
Recently, Shamblin testified before Congress, &#8220;The administration didn&#8217;t seem to know our story,&#8221; while adding that &#8220;when it came to the people in suits, it felt disingenuous and hollow.&#8221; 
Biden, readers will also remember, checked his watch repeatedly at Dover Air Force Base while there to welcome home to the 13 caskets of the deceased Americans.
That national embarrassment enraged the nation, but the families of those brave men and women were — understandably — particularly stung by the commander-in-chief&#8217;s lack of empathy.
“In reference to the checking of his watch, that didn’t happen just once,” Darin Hoover, who lost his son, Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gold-star-fathers-blast-biden-for-looking-at-watch-during-dignified-transfer-most-disrespectful-thing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2021. &#8220;That 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 – all 13 – he looked down at his watch.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;As 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. They let them down, we can’t have that. It can’t happen ever again.&#8221;
Hoover also testified before Congress the same week after meeting Trump in late August.
&#8220;Between Congress and Trump, it turned into a really good week,” he told Foldi. “Lots of emotion and good times.”
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NEW from me <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSpectator?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheSpectator</a>:
Donald Trump spent an evening privately hosting some of the Gold Star families whose kids were killed in Biden&#39;s failed Afghanistan withdrawal
&quot;He knew our names, he knew our kids&#8230;He took the time to honor our 13.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/LlZ152HBU8">https://t.co/LlZ152HBU8</a>
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Marlon Bateman, an executive advisor to the Utah attorney general, was also in attendance and provided more details as to what the night was like — again drawing a sharp distinction from Biden&#8217;s treatment of the families.
&#8220;We did not expect President Trump to join us, but to my surprise, he came up and joined us for dinner,&#8221; Bateman said. &#8220;Everyone erupted in cheers as he walked in. Lee Greenwood&#8217;s &#8216;God Bless The U.S.A&#8217; was blaring on the speakers. He proceeded to spend another couple of hours with us and even busted out an iPad to play songs for couples to slow dance to. He even went into his all-time favorite wrestling intros! At that moment I could see the anxiety, stress, and anger that these parents had carried for so long disappear from their faces. It was a moment of peace. They were there to celebrate the heroes they raised. Their babies grew up to be the best our country had to offer, and they were getting some of the recognition they deserved.&#8221;
Bateman added, &#8220;[Trump] did something for these families that the current administration has refused to do, and was incapable of doing — giving an overdue moment of recognition and solidarity for their children. Not a bullshit statement from the White House, not John Kirby sending his deepest condolences on CNN, not Joe Biden continually glancing at his watch while the bodies of their children were carried off the tarmac. He gave them hope that accountability and justice will be coming.&#8221;
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Last week, I had the honor to accompany several Gold Star parents to meet with President Trump in Bedminster. These parents lost their children when Abbey Gate was bombed in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was orchestrated by Joe Biden.  
While Biden continues… <a href="https://t.co/wOJEKVG4r2">pic.twitter.com/wOJEKVG4r2</a>
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Meanwhile, President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration recently released a report calling the withdrawal a &#8220;success&#8221; and Biden has said the withdrawal <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> &#8220;responsible, deliberate and safe.&#8221;
Of course, readers know the lapdog media will never cover this story — it 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 out there.
The names of the 13 Americans killed during the withdrawal can be read here:
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<li>Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25 </li>
<li>Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23 </li>
<li>Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31 </li>
<li>Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22 </li>
<li>Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23 </li>
<li>Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20 </li>
<li>Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22 </li>
<li>Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23</li>
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The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Trump Honors Gold Star Families With Night To Remember, Painting Stark Contrast With Biden’s Disrespect

Trump Honors Gold Star Families With Night To Remember, Painting 'Stark Contrast With Biden's Disrespect

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Of the three traditional (non-cable) news networks, only NBC News covered Tuesday&#8217;s roundtable discussion with the Gold Star family members who lost loved ones in the final days of President Joe Biden&#8217;s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Friends and family of the 13 fallen service members — killed on August 26, 2021, when a suicide bomber attacked the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan — <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/families-service-members-killed-2021-kabul-airport-attack-demand-accou-rcna102436?taid=64ef051914bc100001ab1901&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met on Capitol Hill</a> to voice their frustrations with the lack of accountability and respect they&#8217;ve seen coming from military leadership and from Biden&#8217;s White House.
According to a <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/08/29/after-mrc-pressure-nbc-covers-gold-star-hearing-abc-cbs-ignore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Media Research Center, only &#8220;NBC Nightly News&#8221; covered the Gold Star families and their comments. ABC&#8217;s &#8220;World News Tonight&#8221; and the &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; opted not to address the issue at all.
&#8220;This week marks two years since the deadly attack during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan,&#8221; NBC anchor Lester Holt said, devoting an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/gold-star-families-of-those-killed-in-kabul-airport-attack-call-for-accountability-two-years-later-191848517787?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_nn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entire segment</a> to the roundtable event. &#8220;And today Gold Star families who lost loved ones say they are still demanding answers.&#8221;
In addition, NBC News correspondent Ryan Nobles interviewed several Gold Star family members – including Herman and Alicia Lopez, whose son Hunter Lopez was among the 13 killed that day in Kabul.
&#8220;Two years ago, Herman and Alicia Lopez lost their son Hunter,&#8221; Nobles said. &#8220;[He] was one of 13 U.S. service members killed during the ISIS bombing near the Abbey Gate at Kabul&#8217;s airport in Afghanistan. He planned to join his hometown sheriff&#8217;s office.&#8221;
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&#8220;He didn&#8217;t get that chance. And we just would like people to give us the truth of what happened and be honest with us,&#8221; his mother replied.
Many of the gathered family members were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-knee-deep-in-bulls-gold-star-father-mark-schmitz-unloads-on-biden-admin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highly critical</a> of the Biden administration – and Biden himself — saying that in addition to the lack of accountability they had seen from the military leadership, Biden had repeatedly failed to even acknowledge their loved ones by name.
&#8220;There couldn’t be anything more disgusting and cowardly than the way you have treated us. You are a disgrace to this nation. You have no business having ultimate command over our military, and I regret not saying that to your face when I had the opportunity in Dover,&#8221; Mark Schmitz, father of the late Lance CPL Jared Schmitz, said during Tuesday&#8217;s discussion.

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Gold Star father Mark Schmitz held nothing back during his Tuesday testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, taking direct aim at military leadership in addition to President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and former Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
Schmitz lost his son, Lance CPL Jared Schmitz, in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rep-issa-called-on-biden-to-meet-with-gold-star-families-from-kabul-bombing-so-far-no-comment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suicide bomb attack</a> on Hamid Karzai International Airport&#8217;s Abbey Gate in Kabul on August 26, 2021. Two years later, he and a number of other Gold Star family members are still looking for answers after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan left 13 American service members dead and dozens more wounded.
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Wow. Mark Schmitz, whose son was killed in Kabul during the Biden Afghanistan withdrawal, goes scorched earth.
Says the admin has the families &quot;knee-deep in bullshit,&quot; Biden is a &quot;disgrace&quot; to the United States, and Blinken/Austin need to &quot;pack up their shit&quot; and resign. <a href="https://t.co/q1dWugT9an">pic.twitter.com/q1dWugT9an</a>
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&#8220;Two years has gone by, and where are we? To be frank, we’re knee deep in bulls***, is where we are,&#8221; Schmitz began his remarks by laying into those who had been in leadership positions during the troop drawdown and then withdrawal from Afghanistan.
&#8220;Everyone who held a key position in the military still has that position or has been promoted. John Kirby still sits on his perch, which apparently faces in the opposite direction from where all the action was,&#8221; Schmitz said. &#8220;Blinken continues to delay key evidence by ignoring or delaying subpoenas. Not a single general slapped down their stars, which should have happened two years ago when Biden ignored reliable intelligence. Not a single person has been held accountable.&#8221;
Schmitz then turned his attention to President Joe Biden, noting as several of the other Gold Star family members have that Biden has not mentioned their loved ones by name even once in the two years since they fell in service to the country.
&#8220;Mr. Biden has run his entire political campaign for 50 years as ‘the family man.’ Well, I’ve got news for you, Sir. The curtain has been lifting, and that campaign slogan will never work again,&#8221; Schmitz continued. &#8220;We have seen what’s going on in your family. And even worse, we’ve seen the way you’ve been treating us as Gold Star families. And there couldn’t be anything more disgusting and cowardly than the way you have treated us. You are a disgrace to this nation. You have no business having ultimate command over our military, and I regret not saying that to your face when I had the opportunity in Dover.&#8221;
Schmitz went on to say that he had initially opted to hold back out of respect for the other grieving family members who were also there to collect their loved ones&#8217; remains.
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&#8220;While I stood there on the tarmac, watching you check your watch over and over again, all I wanted to do was shout out, ‘It’s 2-f***ing-thirty, a**hole.’ But out of respect to the other grieving families, I bit my tongue once again,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As you can probably tell by now, I’m done biting my tongue. You, Sir, stole their lives, their futures, their dreams — and have ripped apart thirteen families. You cannot even man up and admit that. You, Sir, gave us all the title ‘Gold Star Family.’ You, Sir, discredit honor and integrity.&#8221;
Other family members have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gold-star-mom-and-wounded-vet-torch-heartless-biden-say-he-made-visits-all-about-beau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized Biden</a> both for his handling of the exit from Afghanistan and his treatment of those who lost loved ones in the final days, calling him &#8220;heartless&#8221; and noting that he had attempted to make their meetings all about himself and his late son, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer.

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'We're Knee-Deep In Bulls***': Gold Star Father Mark Schmitz Unloads On Biden Admin

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A Gold Star mother who met President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> on the Memorial Day following her son’s death from the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport said that Biden responded by suggesting she take a photo with him when she wept during their meeting.
Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Christian Knauss was killed when a bomber detonated a bomb at Kabul&#8217;s international airport on August 26, 2021, killing 13 American soldiers. His mother, Paula Knauss Selph, the executive director of the Respect and Remember Foundation, met Biden in the Oval Office at an event for Gold Star families in Washington, D.C. on Memorial Day 2022.
“There&#8217;s been a lot of grief, a lot of grief,” she told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12422089/Afghanistan-Gold-Star-mom-says-President-Biden-asked-photo-op-wept-Oval-Office-heartbreaking-loss-son-killed-Kabul-bombing-two-years-ago.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail.</a> “There&#8217;s nothing like watching your child die in front of you, in front of the world.”
She recalled when she met Biden, he said, “I can understand if you&#8217;re angry.”
“I stood face-to-face with him, eyeball-to-eyeball. I began to weep,” she said, adding that she told him, “It should have never happened this way.”
“He stood there stoically,” she remembered. “Nothing out of his mouth except  — well would you like to get a photo with me?”
Selph told Biden that the only picture she would take with him was if he stood with her at her son&#8217;s tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery. She said Biden answered, “I can&#8217;t do that because Secret Service won&#8217;t let me do that.”
“It&#8217;s a moral disgrace for a president not to have mercy on the people that he serves. It is a moral disgrace,” Selph said, adding that Biden thought the “sad occasion” was a “photo op&#8217;” rather an opportunity to comfort a grieving mother.
“He had the chance to make a difference for my child. On not making decisions and indecisions that cost him his life. And I do hold him accountable,” she concluded.
“Ryan, all of his life was quite certain he wanted to go in the armed forces,” Selph said of her son, who was a member of the JROTC cadet program before serving in the military. “And it is a pleasing thing to me. But throughout his life, he kept that focus. He was so disciplined. He was so smart. &#8230; He was protecting and giving us the opportunity for many people to live out the American dream. That&#8217;s what will long outlive all of us.”
The Respect and Remember Foundation says it has <a href="https://r2factor.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three goals</a>: To encourage JROTC and ROTC Cadets with merit scholarships as they graduate and go directly into the military; to support active duty military stationed abroad with care packages and welcome home baskets and provide vacations for active military personnel and families, and to partner with veteran-led organizations connecting veterans together to help combat the high suicide rate among veterans and the adjustments to civilian life needed by veterans encouraging other veterans.

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Afghanistan Gold Star Mom: I Wept, Wanted Comfort From Biden. He Suggested A Photo With Him Instead.

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-yet-respond-proposed-meeting-gold-star-families-issa-says?intcmp=tw_pols" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> last week to President Joe Biden requesting that he host a formal meeting with Gold Star families who lost loved ones during the suicide bombing attack at Kabul&#8217;s Hamid Karzai International Airport in 2021.
The California Congressman shared a post via X confirming on Thursday that President Biden had not yet responded to his request for a meeting.
&#8220;For two years, Joe Biden ignored and insulted the Gold Star parents as he turned the page on his disastrous decisions that cost our 13 service members their lives. He has yet to in any way make this right with the families,&#8221; Issa said.
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For two years, Joe Biden ignored and insulted the Gold Star parents as he turned the page on his disastrous decisions that cost our 13 service members their lives. He has yet to in any way make this right with the families.<a href="https://t.co/gSB071Yi5w">https://t.co/gSB071Yi5w</a>
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Issa hosted a forum for those same families last week, inviting them to speak publicly about their experiences and raise questions about the Biden administration&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021, culminating with the terror attack at HKIA&#8217;s Abbey Gate that took the lives of 13 American service members and more than 150 Afghans.
During that forum, many of the surviving family members were critical of the Biden administration officials who oversaw the troop withdrawal — and some lashed out at Biden directly, calling him &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gold-star-mom-and-wounded-vet-torch-heartless-biden-say-he-made-visits-all-about-beau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heartless</a>&#8221; and saying that when he had met with them, he had attempted to make the conversation about himself and his late son Beau Biden.
Cheryl Rex, who lost her son Lance CPL Dylane Merola in that attack, said that Biden had immediately spun their interaction to talk about his son.
&#8220;When Joe Biden, our elected president, came into the room — when he approached me — his words to me were, &#8216;My wife, Jill and I, know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin,'&#8221; she said.
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&#8220;My heart started beating faster, and I started shaking, knowing that their son died from cancer and that they were able to be by his side. Also wondering how someone could honestly … sorry … be so heartless to say he knew how I felt a little over 24 hours in learning of my son’s death,&#8221; she added.
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Mother of Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola who died because of botched Afghanistan withdrawal: “When [Biden] approached me, his words to me were, ‘My wife, Jill &amp; I, know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag draped coffin’&#39;
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Rex, who blames a failure of leadership for the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, also said that Biden had not spoken to her or mentioned her son&#8217;s name once since that meeting.

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A Gold Star mom who lost her son in the terrorist bombing during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal confronted CNN host Jake Tapper about the media silence over President Biden&#8217;s handling of the withdrawal.
Kelly Barnett, the mother of Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover, had noted in the past that her son had served in Afghanistan twice before he was murdered in the attack. She said he had told her he was concerned “the moment that he landed and saw what he saw. His words were chaos, no communication, lack of leadership. He said he never [saw] anything like it.”
“He told me, Mom, I now know that the command cares nothing for us,” Barnett had stated. “My son, these 12 others left this earth thinking that their command cared nothing for them.”
“Ms. Barnett, I know you&#8217;ve been hesitant to speak out about what happened to your son,” Tapper said as he started his interview with her on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” “And I totally respect that. Why have you decided to talk publicly now about it?”
“If you give me a little leeway here, when I first saw, you know, the text saying CNN wanted to talk to me, I was so happy,” Barnett responded. “Where have you all been? We need you, Jake. We need you. We need CNN. We need all the other networks to voice our opinions, our truths and get it out there.”
“We need the country to come together,” she continued. “I want justice for my son. He fought and he died for this country, not for conservatives, not for liberals. He fought for all of us. My job as his mom is to make sure that we come together and make sure this never happens again.”
Tapper protested, “We&#8217;ve been covering the story of the botched withdrawal since it happened. And it&#8217;s just heartbreaking.”
“You have said that the Biden administration lied to you about what happened that day,” Tapper said. “Tell us more about that. What did they tell you that was wrong?”
“First off, they told me that my son died on impact, which is completely 100 percent false,” Barnett revealed. “He lived. He put a tourniquet on himself. He handed out his ammo to his men because, you know, gunfire is going off. So he, you know, he did live for a little while. I now know because of witnesses that were there. You know, how he &#8212; where he was when he passed. They lied about where he was standing.”
“And again, from witnesses, I now know where that truth is,” she continued. “I&#8217;m not really sure, you know, they even know where he was at this point. But I know where he was. They&#8217;ve given false statements.”
“If President Biden were watching right now, what would you want to say to him?” Tapper asked.
“I wanted to say to him that he needs to be a grown man,” Barnett replied. “He needs to come out and say, yes, I made a mistake. I chose wrong. I was looking for a photo op and I messed up. That&#8217;s what he needs to do.”

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‘Where Have You All Been?’: Gold Star Mom Slams Tapper, Media For Silence On Biden’s Botched Withdrawal

Gold Star Mom Slams Tapper, Media For Silence On Biden’s Botched Withdrawal

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On Monday, the families of 13 service members who were murdered in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport in 2021 held a press conference. They called on the Biden administration to give them some answers and inform the public as to how their loved ones actually died in the terrorist attack.
Joe Biden committed the single most egregious act I’ve ever seen a president undertake: the cowardly, pusillanimous, and disgusting pullout from Afghanistan without any plan whatsoever. This caused the complete collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban, left millions of people behind, and abandoned hundreds to thousands of Americans left behind in enemy hands. Green card holders were not able to get out. Translators were left to be murdered. American soldiers were blown up at the airport because proper security was not actually guaranteed.
And Biden has never paid the political price for it.
The real story of Biden’s presidency is encapsulated in the arrogance, the egotism, the disgusting, selfish involvement of the president of the United States in presiding over the greatest foreign policy disaster of my lifetime, and then just blithely talking it away.
Biden is not a good person. He is the kind of person who ignores a four-year-old grandchild for four years, if he thinks it’s politically beneficial for him to do so. He is the kind of person whose entire career has been marked by lying about others. He’s the kind of person who slandered a man who was involved in a car crash in which his wife and one of his children were killed. He slandered that person as a drunk driver for years. That’s the kind of person that Joe Biden is.
It is disgusting that this person who was perceived as warm, generous, fuzzy and cuddly — the guy who nuzzled small children for no reason — was so cold and calculating that he really did not care what happened to the people who got left behind, including American soldiers. Biden is a person who cares first and foremost about himself. And that is perfectly obvious in the way he treated the Gold Star family members.
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That was certainly evident from the testimony of the Gold Star family members and wounded soldiers who were at the press conference. American service members were murdered in Kabul and the treatment of these Gold Star family members was egregious and disgusting.
Biden had talked to the wounded vets, and when he did, he spoke about his son Beau’s death — who had died of brain cancer. Biden tried to suggest that his son Beau’s death, which was tragic and terrible, was somehow the equivalent of people being blown up in combat.
For those who ever have to visit a house of mourning, the rule is: Shut up. You visit a house of mourning, you shut up and let them talk, because you don’t know how that person feels, even if you’ve gone through something similar.
But the media don’t care about Biden’s actions. They don’t care. The Gold Star family members are of no consequence to them. No one knows their names. No one gives them coverage. These are not people who you’re going to see on the nightly news. You’re not going to see interviews with those wounded soldiers.
This whole “caring grandpa” routine is a lie. He’s a corrupt politician. He has been for decades. He’s never held a real job outside of the federal government. And he went around telling people who just lost family members, young people who were blown up, that he knew how they felt because he had a son who died of cancer in circumstances entirely unrelated to his military service.
Gold Star father Darin Hoover said of Biden, “Do what our son did. Be a grown-ass man. Admit to your mistakes. Learn from them so that this doesn’t happen ever, ever again.”
People told Biden that the collapse in Afghanistan was going to happen. They all told him, but he didn’t care because he’s a stubborn ass, a fool, and a bad person. Across the country, thousands of people were being murdered by the Taliban, dragged out of their house, and killed. But he didn’t care about that. He said, “Don’t worry, we’re not going to leave our Afghan allies behind.”
Spoiler alert: We left tens of thousands of Afghan allies behind. He said we would do everything we could to provide safe evacuation for our Afghan allies — but he was a liar. We left all those people to be murdered. He said we would not leave Americans behind. This, too, was a lie. We left hundreds of Americans behind.
He said we made clear to the Taliban that any attack — any attack — on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport would be met with a swift and forceful response, that we were keeping a close watch on any potential terrorist threat at or around the airport.
No, we damned well didn’t. We have dead American service people to prove it.
A couple of days later, he went on national television and claimed the whole thing had been a wonderful success for his administration, saying, “The extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravery, and selfless courage of the United States military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals.”
That is who Joe Biden is. That’s what Americans should be focused on going into the election.
And that’s why these families will never see the light of day on national news. That’s why you won’t hear the names of the Gold Star family members outside of conservative media. The names of the soldiers should be household names, but they won’t be.
Never forget how this man sinned against the American people, against our Afghan allies, and against our soldiers and their families.
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Gold Star Families From Kabul Terror Attack Blast Biden. Never Forget How He Abandoned Our Soldiers.

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Gold Star mother Cheryl Rex and wounded Marine SGT Tyler Vargas-Andrews told very similar stories about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ultimate-disrespect-gold-star-families-trash-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> &#8212; and neither were impressed by his apparent need to make every conversation about himself and his late son Beau Biden.
Vargas-Andrews was wounded in the suicide-bomb attack that rocked Kabul&#8217;s Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 16, 2021 — the same attack that killed Rex&#8217;s son, LCPL Dylan Merola, and 12 other American service members — and he said that Biden came to visit him while he was recovering in the hospital.
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Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a Marine who survived the explosion in Kabul that killed 13 Americans, says that when Joe and Jill Biden came to his hospital room, the president reached out to shake his hand even though his arm was gone, immediately started talking about his son, and… <a href="https://t.co/5axewScAPk">pic.twitter.com/5axewScAPk</a>
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Vargas-Andrews described the situation, explaining that he had lost his right arm and his left was all but immobilized, with just the tips of his fingers sticking out of a massive cast &#8212; and he said that Biden did not really greet him when he entered the room, opting instead to grab his exposed fingers like he was shaking his hand.
&#8220;I was like, ok, that&#8217;s weird,&#8221; Vargas-Andrews said. &#8220;And, you know, almost immediately starts talking, like, about how their son served in the military. Doesn&#8217;t say anything about what happened, just talking about how their son served in the military.&#8221;
Vargas-Andrews said that by then, his mother was &#8220;furious,&#8221; and told the president and his entourage that they needed to take care of her son &#8220;for the rest of his f***ing life.&#8221;
He said that the exchange got even stranger after that, explaining that Biden bent over to talk to him and asked, &#8220;What do you want?&#8221;
&#8220;I was confused. I just got blown up, saw my f***ing friends die next to me, I just want to be myself,&#8221; Vargas-Andrews recalled, saying that his answer appeared to baffle Biden. The remainder of the conversation — which he said was brief — avoided any mention of the explosion that nearly ended his life.
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Rex, who spoke at Tuesday&#8217;s forum in California for the families of those killed during the Biden administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oh-please-brian-kilmeade-cant-hold-back-when-john-kirby-tries-to-spin-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-great-success" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disastrous withdrawal</a> from Afghanistan, recounted a very similar experience with the Commander in Chief.
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Mother of Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola who died because of botched Afghanistan withdrawal: “When [Biden] approached me, his words to me were, ‘My wife, Jill &amp; I, know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag draped coffin’&#39;
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&#8220;When Joe Biden, our elected president, came into the room — when he approached me — his words to me were, &#8216;My wife, Jill and I, know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin,'&#8221; she recalled.
&#8220;My heart started beating faster, and I started shaking, knowing that their son died from cancer and that they were able to be by his side,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Also wondering how someone could honestly &#8230; sorry &#8230; be so heartless to say he knew how I felt a little over 24 hours in learning of my son&#8217;s death.&#8221;
Rex went on to say that, after that moment, she received no further correspondence from President Biden — and no indication that he had ever honored her son&#8217;s death or even spoken his name since he paid the ultimate price for what she believes was a failure of leadership in the final days in Afghanistan.

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Gold Star Mom And Wounded Vet Torch 'Heartless' Biden, Say He Made Visits All About Beau

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A number of Gold Star family members laid into President Joe Biden and members of his administration, calling them out over the disastrous exit from Afghanistan that took the lives of their loved ones.
At an event in Escondido, California — hosted by Mayor Dane White and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) — relatives of the thirteen service members killed by the suicide bomber at the Kabul airport on August 26, 2021, joined together to speak publicly about their experiences.
Issa introduced the event, billed as the Afghanistan Gold Star Families Public Forum, saying that while they had officially allotted five minutes for each family member who wanted to speak, no one was going to enforce time limits as long as the families had something to share.
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RIGHT NOW: I am in Escondido where Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/Dwhite1904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dwhite1904</a> is hosting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/C48?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#C48</a>’s <a href="https://twitter.com/repdarrellissa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@repdarrellissa</a> for an Afghanistan Gold Star Families Public Forum, where family members of those killed during Biden’s chaotic withdrawal are speaking jointly for the first time
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Issa also made it clear that the ultimate goal was to make sure that such a tragedy never happened again: &#8220;Did they have to die? Could we have done something different? &#8230; I only apologize that we didn’t do it sooner.&#8221;
Then the family members began to speak, and they had little if anything positive to say about Biden and the military leaders who had been a part of the decision-making process during the troop drawdown and withdrawal — and most were absolutely furious that the administration had then insisted the withdrawal had been a &#8220;success.&#8221;
SSG Taylor Hoover&#8217;s mother was among those who spoke, and she said that the blame for her son&#8217;s death rested on Biden, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and others. &#8220;Incompetent, cowards, evil,&#8221; she said.
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Taylor’s concern was immediately apparent when he got to Afghanistan, Kelly says. He warned her of:
“Chaos, lack of communication, no leadership.” “Command cares nothing for us.”
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Hoover&#8217;s father spoke as well, saying that the Biden administration &#8220;did not uphold their end of that contract.&#8221;
&#8220;This didn’t need to happen in the manner that it did,&#8221; he added, saying that leadership had &#8220;made a conscious decision that made a chaotic and frantic withdrawal from Afghanistan.&#8221;
He went on to call out those leaders, saying that it was &#8220;nothing short of disgusting and ignorant&#8221; that they had turned around and claimed that the withdrawal had been a success. &#8220;I’m calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley &#8230; and ultimately, the president, and do what our son did: and be a grown ass man &#8230; You all need to resign immediately. Our sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes than all of them combined.&#8221;
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“I’m calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley,” Whited (who did not give the call to take out the bomber), and “ultimately, the president, and do what our son did: and be a grown ass man.”
“You all need to resign immediately. Our sons and daughters have…
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Nicole Gee&#8217;s mother said she knew no forum would ever bring her daughter back, but her goal in speaking was to make sure that the service members who came afterward would be treated with the respect earned by the 13 who lost their lives that day in Kabul.
&#8220;When our leaders, include the secretary of defense and our commander in chief, called this a ‘success,’… it’s like a knife in the heart,&#8221; she said. &#8220;These deaths were preventable. My daughter could be with us today. To call it a success is the ultimate disrespect. There were 13 avoidable deaths &#8230; This was not a success. What we’re asking for it to stop the insanity and make it better for the next group.&#8221;
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“These deaths were preventable. My daughter could be with us today.”
“To call it a success is the ultimate disrespect.”
“There were 13 avoidable deaths,” not to mention the wounded. 
“This was not a success.”
“What we’re asking for it to stop the insanity and make it better…
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Dylan Merola&#8217;s mother called Biden &#8220;heartless,&#8221; saying that he had claimed to know how she felt but never once mentioned her son&#8217;s name. &#8220;If they had closed the gate, my son would be alive today,&#8221; she added.
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“How could a worldwide event” just vanish from coverage, she asks
“Everything, even the way my son died, was being covered up.”
A colonel told her she wouldn’t want to see the drone footage. “I had already seen my son’s lifeless body,” who is he to say that?
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&#8220;The commander in chief failed in the oath he took … he failed everybody,&#8221; Humberto Sanchez&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1688617438957699072" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mother said</a>. &#8220;I want the answers, I want the truth &#8230; I want to know this type of failure will not repeat itself again &#8230; I will fight til my last breath to get the truth.&#8221;
Hunter Lopez&#8217;s mother said that she believed there was more to the story — and objected to the notion that it was time to &#8220;turn the page.&#8221;
&#8220;If fault was to be found in someone wearing fatigues and not a suit, they would have been on trial a long time ago,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;We do not want a partial truth or truth told in a book release…as Americans, we want this truth. As Gold Star families, we deserve this truth. We deserved it two years ago, and we deserve it today.&#8221;
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“We do not want a partial truth or truth told in a book release…as Americans, we want this truth. As Gold Star families, we deserve this truth. We deserved it two years ago, and we deserve it today.”
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Rep. Issa has promised to get to the bottom of the issue, saying, &#8220;The Biden Administration lied to every one of these Gold Star families. That’s why we brought them forward. These are the words the White House doesn’t want you to hear.&#8221;
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The Biden Administration lied to every one of these Gold Star families.
That’s why we brought them forward. These are the words the White House doesn’t want you to hear.
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‘The Ultimate Disrespect’: Gold Star Families Trash Biden Admin Over Afghanistan Withdrawal

Gold Star Families Trash Biden Admin Over Afghanistan Withdrawal

Americans&#8217; confidence in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/military" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military</a> has fallen to the lowest level in decades, according to new polling data from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gallup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup</a>. 
Confidence in the U.S. military by Americans of all political affiliations <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/509189/confidence-military-lowest-two-decades.aspx#:~:text=The%20military,-Get%20the%20data&amp;text=It%20then%20surged%20after%20the,poorly%20executed%20exit%20from%20Afghanistan." target="_blank" rel="noopener">has fallen</a> to just 60%, tying the lowest number since 1997, Gallup found. The last time confidence was below 60% was in 1988, when just 58% had confidence in the military. The data was collected from June 1-22. 
&#8220;At 60%, confidence in the military was last this low in 1997, and it hasn’t been lower since 1988, when 58% were confident. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s — during the Cold War and amid threats to U.S. power, including the Iran hostage crisis — between 50% and 58% of Americans were confident in the military,&#8221; Gallup reported.
The fall in confidence in the military has been especially pronounced among Republicans, who have historically been the most likely to be supportive of the military. Republican confidence in the military has dropped by 23 points since 2020, when 91% expressed confidence in the military. 
While Gallup noted that Democrats’ confidence rose after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, it has since declined. The group with the lowest amount of confidence was independents, whose confidence level sits at just 55%. 
The drop in confidence came after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-house-republican-blasts-bidens-claims-about-afghanistan-devoid-of-reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bungled withdrawal</a> from Afghanistan, where the U.S. had a military presence for over 20 years. Thirteen American service members were killed in a suicide bombing during the final days of the withdrawal as the Taliban quickly took power. 
Some have placed the decline in confidence on a politicized Department of Defense. 
“Americans&#8217; confidence in the U.S. military is the lowest in 2 decades! Our ‘leaders’ have tarnished the military’s history and legacy by putting woke indoctrination before patriotism &amp; foreign conflict before American interests,” <a href="https://twitter.com/amrenewctr/status/1686381037235150849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Center for Renewing America, a conservative policy organization. 
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The military has also been struggling with recruiting, with the Army missing its recruitment goals in fiscal year 2022 and <a href="https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/05/03/short-handed-army-to-miss-recruiting-goal-for-second-year-in-a-row/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcing</a> earlier this year that it would likely miss its goals again in fiscal year 2023 when it had hoped to recruit 452,000 soldiers. 
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said that they might have to “do some thinning out” across the Army because the military was losing service members faster than they were gaining them. 
“If we don’t turn our recruiting situation around, I can’t guarantee you that the Army won’t have to make some substantial potential force structure reductions,” Wormuth said.

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The president of the United States is wildly unpopular and a lot of people have attributed that to his policies, some of which have included gigantic government spending, “equity” at the center of all things, or weak foreign policy, including the pullout from Afghanistan.
But the reality is, Joe Biden has been sinking in the polls. And that’s because Americans don’t like him.
The turning point for him was the pullout from Afghanistan. Until then, the widespread perception was that he was a kind, elderly gentleman — who wasn’t all there — but in essence, was a fairly decent guy. But when he pulled out from Afghanistan and basically implied he didn’t care what happened there, that really changed the perception of the American public about him.
Now his unpopularity has been underscored in radical terms because of his association with his son Hunter. Lurking in the background of the Biden family’s story has always been this idea that they are incredibly tribal — that if you are a Biden, then you get to benefit from the sweetheart deals that are associated with the Biden last name, whether you’re Joe Biden’s brother or his son.
But if they choose not to give you the name, then you’re cut off at the knees. And who better to apply that logic to than a small baby?
Hunter Biden had a sexual relationship with a woman named Lunden Roberts. She was apparently acting as his quasi-assistant, meaning he was not just using her for her secretarial abilities, but also for other purposes and reasons that were sexual in nature. In August 2018, she bore his child whom she named Navy Joan.
For years, Joe Biden has maintained that he has six grandchildren. He does not. He has seven. He’s had seven grandchildren for four years.
The Bidens simply refused to give the child the Biden last name, which is the imprimatur of not only legitimacy but also of money-making in the Biden family. The only thing that matters is Biden’s last name. It is certainly not Joe Biden’s magic political skill set because he doesn’t have one. He ran for the presidency repeatedly before he latched on to the rising star of Barack Obama.
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The paternity hearings about Navy proved the only thing Hunter would be giving to Navy Joan and her mom were practically some finger paintings he had created. Presumably, there would be some sort of corrupt deal or somebody would buy those paintings from Navy’s mom, and it would become a money laundering operation on behalf of the Biden family (yet again!) by big name donors who would buy Hunter Biden’s paintings from London.
Joe Biden cares about his granddaughter so much that he refused to acknowledge her existence at the White House. There was a Christmas stocking for his dog, the one that was biting all the Secret Service agents, but there was no Christmas stocking for the granddaughter. He refused to acknowledge her.
Then over the weekend, Joe Biden reversed himself and acknowledged the little girl. 
What happened here was obvious: The American people didn’t like it when this supposedly kind, old family man — whose entire excuse for his ludicrously soft treatment of his son has been that he loved his son so much — was willing to disown a 4-year-old. When Americans saw this child who, through no fault of her own was born of Biden’s son, was not part of the family, but the son — a crack addicted derelict who runs around the world picking up bags of cash — was just fine, they saw what looked more like corruption than family loyalty.
So he finally put out a statement about this missing grandchild, saying, “Our son, Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward.”
A great way to “preserve her privacy” would have been not to make her the center of a political scandal for roughly four years. 
Name another Biden grandchild. Go ahead. 
You’ve never heard of them. Because it’s only a controversy when you refuse to give your grandchild your name because your son sired her with a former stripper.
There’s only one thing that Joe Biden cares about in life, and that is the Biden name. He’s made this absolutely clear. He says this over and over because the Biden family name is his only valuable tool. It was valuable to everyone who was around him because he was able to parlay his situation as a senator into jobs and cash for his son, for his brother, for others. And presumably some of that cash came back to him. 
Why does all of this matter? Because it involves character. 
The Democratic Party consistently suggests that character matters, and thus Donald Trump should never have been president. Joe Biden has portrayed himself in a way Trump never did. Biden has portrayed himself as a generous, kindhearted family man who cares about the members of his family above all, so much so that he’s purely sympathetic to his drug-addicted, booze-addled son.
Trump, when it comes to this race, is essentially a mud monster. The more mud you throw on him, the more he is made of mud. 
But you cannot sully someone who is made of mud. There’s no way to do it.
Yet Biden proclaimed that he was a decent, honest, hardworking family man, and it turned out that he actually was a corrupt, old politician who was willing to manipulate and use his drug-addled son to pick up bags of cash abroad while ignoring his grandchild.
And Americans noticed.
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