President Joe Biden reached out to the family members of a fallen soldier, telling them during a phone call that he could relate to their loss because his son had spent a year in Iraq and had &#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">died because of it</a>.&#8221;
Biden spoke with Oneida and Shawn Sanders, the parents of SPC Kennedy Sanders, and told them during the call that their daughter would be posthumously awarded the rank of Sergeant. A short time later, however, he pivoted to talk about his own son&#8217;s death.
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Joe Biden tells the parents of one of the soldiers who died in Syria over the weekend that he lost his son Beau in Iraq.
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SPC Sanders was killed — alongside two other American service members — in Syria in the drone strike executed by Iran-backed terrorists over the weekend.
&#8220;Shawn, I wish I didn’t have to make this call I know there’s nothing anybody can say or do to ease the pain. I’ve been there,&#8221; Biden began. &#8220;I just want you to know that I … you’re in my prayers and my heart.&#8221;
Biden then explained that Kennedy would be receiving her promotion posthumously, moving her parents to tears.
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&#8220;Oh wow, that is the best news I’ve heard today, thank you so much. You don’t know how much that means to us,&#8221; Oneida Sanders replied.
&#8220;Oh, well, I tell you what, it means a lot to me. My son spent a year in Iraq; that’s how I lost him,&#8221; Biden said then. &#8220;You know, 1%, 1% of all these kids are the ones that take care of 99% of us.&#8221;
Despite a lack of evidence linking the two, Biden has often claimed that his son Beau Biden — who died of brain cancer in 2015, years after he returned from deployment to Iraq with the Delaware National Guard — died as a result of his military service. He has sometimes claimed that his son died in Iraq and sometimes argued that exposure to toxic fumes from burn pits — which have been <a href="https://www.va.gov/resources/presumptive-cancers-related-to-burn-pit-exposure/#:~:text=Colorectal%20cancer%20or%20colon%20cancer,the%20liver%20and%20intrahepatic%20tract)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">linked to</a> colorectal cancers, esophageal cancers, and liver cancers — was the cause of his son&#8217;s brain tumor.

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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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Longtime Hunter Biden business associate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-demands-release-of-devon-archer-transcript-gop-led-panel-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Devon Archer</a> took questions from the House Oversight Committee on Monday — and just when he began to fill in the details tying President Joe Biden to his son&#8217;s questionable dealings with foreign business partners, a new hero stood up to protect the president.
The hero in question is former impeachment attorney-turned Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-dan-goldman-demands-gop-shut-down-probe-into-bidens-this-investigation-has-to-end-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Goldman</a> (D-NY) — who went straight to the cameras after Archer&#8217;s Capitol Hill appearance to reassure the public that if Joe Biden did talk to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-doubles-down-on-campaign-claim-he-never-spoke-with-hunter-about-business-deals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter&#8217;s business partners</a>, it was only to say hello or to discuss the weather.
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&#8220;It was clear that it was part of the daily conversations that Hunter Biden had with his father,&#8221; Goldman told reporters. &#8220;It was — and sounds like most of the time now President Biden didn&#8217;t even know who the people he was at dinner, he was just asked to say hello and he would talk about the weather — he described it several times.&#8221;
Goldman went on to characterize Archer&#8217;s statements as proof that Joe Biden had not discussed anything relating to business, and had only been peripherally involved in &#8220;casual conversation.&#8221;
On Tuesday morning, Goldman joined MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; to continue his defense of Biden — and there he joined Jonathan Lemire in suggesting that Joe Biden&#8217;s preoccupation with his late son Beau Biden&#8217;s illness made it even less likely that he was willfully participating in anything untoward.
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Lemire began by suggesting that at worst, it appeared that then Vice-President Biden had perhaps &#8220;turned a blind eye&#8221; to some of the things Hunter was involved in at the time.
&#8220;We should put this in context; this is the time when Beau Biden, the president’s other son, was ill and dying and then passed away. So perhaps he wasn’t as attentive to what he should have been,&#8221; Lemire said, arguing that he had yet to see any proof that Joe Biden had committed any crime.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson pivoted back to the previous talking point, suggesting that if Joe Biden had been party to any calls or dinners that he should not have been, it was because he loved his son. &#8220;We know how important family is to the president. So, do you hang up on your son?&#8221; he asked.
Goldman joined the conversation then, echoing Lemire&#8217;s comments and noting that it was around the time of Beau Biden&#8217;s death that Joe Biden redoubled efforts to speak with Hunter every day. He appeared to make the argument that if Joe Biden were involved in questionable calls, it was understandable because he was just trying to be sure he spoke with Hunter daily.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s put this in context: Beau Biden got very sick in early 2015. He died in spring of 2015,&#8221; Goldman said. &#8220;It was right in the middle when Devon Archer had his business dealings with Hunter Biden. At that point Joe Biden and Hunter Biden began to speak every day because they were both devastated by Beau’s death.&#8221;
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald noticed Goldman&#8217;s avid defense, as well the fact that Beau Biden&#8217;s death was once again being used to shield Joe Biden from criticism.
&#8220;Aside from the grotesque way Dems always exploit issues of addiction and Beau&#8217;s death to demand nobody talk about the scandals involving Hunter, I continue to love that the most beloved new Dem Congressman is a billionaire Levi Strauss heir from Manhattan and the Mueller team,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1686397309909688320" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

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Transgender-identifying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/delaware" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Delaware</a> state Senator Sarah McBride announced a bid for the U.S. House of Representatives this week to bring “diversity” to the legislative body. 
McBride, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/trans-candidate-mounts-congressional-bid-diversity-in-government-is-necessary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">born Tim</a>, would be the first transgender-identifying person in Congress if elected. McBride was first elected to the Delaware Senate in 2020. He formerly worked on a political campaign for President Joe Biden’s late son, Beau.
“It’s clear that diversity in government is necessary for us to not just ensure we have a healthy democracy but also to truly deliver for people,” McBride <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/26/delaware-state-senator-sarah-mcbride-house-bid-00103609" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The News Journal. 
In an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/us/politics/sarah-mcbride-transgender-congress.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the New York Times, McBride said that state laws banning sex change procedures on minors were &#8220;wrong and unconstitutional&#8221; and &#8220;an attempt by MAGA Republicans to distract from the fact that they have absolutely no agenda for families and for workers in our country.&#8221;
During his time in the Senate, McBride has spoken out against a proposal that would have barred males from competing in women’s sports. 
“Let’s be clear, this legislation is part of a national strategy to ban trans kids from affirming health care, ban certain books, forbid discussion, and to rip trans kids away from supportive parents – policies that try to delay and delay and delay trans kids from living authentically,” McBride <a href="https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/icymi-watch-delaware-state-senator-transgender-activist-sarah-mcbride-defend-trans-youth-against-anti-trans-sports-ban-in-committee-she-chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in March 2022. 
Prior to the 2020 Delaware Senate election, McBride interned for the Obama administration, worked as national press secretary for the far-Left Human Rights Campaign, and spoke at the 2016 Democrat National Convention. 
McBride appears closely connected to the Bidens, who call Delaware home. When President Biden&#8217;s son, Beau, ran for state attorney general, McBride worked on his campaign. Joe Biden wrote the forward to McBride&#8217;s 2018 memoir, &#8220;Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality.” 
“She was honest and heartfelt. Even at that young age, she was a leader. Not because she thought she was better than anyone else, but because she treated everyone as equals. She was a Biden even then,” Biden <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tomorrow_Will_Be_Different/xY4nDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in the forward. 
McBride has already taken shots at Republicans, flashing pictures of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) when discussing politicians “who want to divide us” in the campaign&#8217;s first video ad.
In a Tuesday <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahEMcBride/status/1673858846006059008?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a>, McBride criticized “MAGA extremists” emphasizing “culture wars” while promising to focus on “reproductive rights,” “gun safety,” and “affordable child care.” 
Delaware has just one seat in Congress, which has been occupied by a Democrat since 2011. Last week, four-term Rep. Lisa Rochester (D-DE) announced that she would be leaving the House to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by outgoing Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE). 
McBride announced just days later, earning the endorsements of Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings and a host of state Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Bryan Townsend and Senate President Pro Tempore Dave Sokola.

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President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> appeared to claim during a Wednesday speech in Colorado that his late son Beau Biden died in combat.
Biden was speaking near the popular skiing destination city of Vail, Colorado — where he went to designate Camp Hale as a national monument — and he segued from a story about World War II to a reference to his son, who he claimed had &#8220;lost his life in Iraq.&#8221;
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President <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> incorrectly said his late son Beau &quot;lost his life in Iraq.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/oZ9GRyRjcI">https://t.co/oZ9GRyRjcI</a> <a href="https://t.co/8OvjbQgUaT">pic.twitter.com/8OvjbQgUaT</a>
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Biden pivoted from a story about how soldiers who trained at Camp Hale had learned to ski and to scale rock formations — skills they would ultimately use defeating the Nazis in Europe — to a mention of his late son Beau.
&#8220;American soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division scaled that 1800-foot cliff at night, caught the Germans by surprise, captured key positions, and broke through the German defense line at a pivotal point in the war,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Just imagine, and I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq. Imagine the courage, the daring, and the genuine sacrifice — the genuine sacrifice they all made.&#8221;
President Biden&#8217;s son <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-marks-son-beaus-death-with-grave-visit-remarks-military-families-2021-05-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beau</a> joined the Delaware National Guard in 2003, and served in the Judge Advocate General&#8217;s (JAG) Corps, deploying to Iraq for a year in 2008. He passed away in 2015 after a battle with glioblastoma — the same kind of brain tumor that the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was battling when he passed away in August of 2018.
President Biden <a href="https://abc7news.com/veterans-day-2021-biden-speech-today-burn-pits-iraq-military/11224070/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has speculated</a> in the past that toxins arising from burn pits — which are used to incinerate waste in forward operating areas — may have played a role in causing his son&#8217;s cancer.
&#8220;Because of his exposure to burn pits — in my view, I can’t prove it yet, he came back with stage four glioblastoma. Eighteen months he lived, knowing he was going to die,&#8221; Biden said in a 2019 speech.
In 2021, the Biden administration announced a plan to better understand and treat service members whose health conditions may be related to working in toxic environments. &#8220;Anybody who was anywhere near those burn pits, that&#8217;s all they have to show and they get covered, they get all their health care covered,&#8221; Biden said.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> has vowed a taxpayer-funded “moonshot” bid to cure cancer, but his own cancer charity spent millions on staff salaries and nothing on actual research, according to tax filings.
Borrowing a phrase from former President Kennedy, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-warns-cancer-survivors-not-to-jump-from-balcony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden on Monday</a> called on America to &#8220;end cancer as we know it.” Biden, who often talks about his son Beau’s 2015 death from cancer, spoke on the 60th anniversary of JFK’s later-fulfilled pledge to put an American on the Moon.
&#8220;When I was elected president, I was determined to supercharge &#8216;Cancer Moonshot&#8217; as a central effort in the Biden-Harris administration,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To create a cancer research and care system that most people think we already have, but don&#8217;t realize until they already have cancer that we don&#8217;t.&#8221;
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In 2017, Biden and wife Jill founded The Biden Cancer Initiative with a stated goal to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement.
“Every minute, every day matters to patients and we must bring that same sense of urgency to cancer research and care systems,” the <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/launching-the-biden-cancer-initiative-300479447.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bidens said in a statement</a> announcing the charity’s launch. “We are joining everyone who spends their days thinking about preventing cancer, about better understanding its biological basis, about bringing early detection and education to all communities, about developing new treatments and therapies, and about caring for patients and their families through some of the hardest days anyone faces. We are on your team. And we are proud to be working alongside you.&#8221;
The board of directors featured a handful of prominent medical and pharmaceutical professionals as well as ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and Black Eyed Peas member and cancer survivor Jimy “Taboo” Gomez.
In its first two years, the initiative took in nearly $5 million, and spent more than $3 million on staff salaries, according to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 New York Post report</a>. The charity’s president, Gregory Simon, earned $224,539 the first year, and got a raise to $429,850 the next, according to the report.
Simon was a former Pfizer executive and had led the Obama White House’s cancer fighting panel, which was called the “Cancer Moonshot Task Force.” The task force’s chief of staff, Danielle Carnival, earned $258,207 in 2018.
The Biden charity spent $56,738 on conferences and $59,356 on travel the first year, figures which swelled to $742,953 and $97,149 the following year.
Simon at the time of the report defended the lack of grants, saying the charity’s goal was to help ensure treatment for poor people and minorities.
The charity halted operations after two years as Biden prepared to enter the 2020 presidential race and was unable to help raise funds.
“We tried to power through but it became increasingly difficult to get the traction we needed to complete our mission,” Simon told The Associated Press in July 2019.

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In Memorial Day remarks on Monday afternoon, President Joe Biden reflected on the lives and sacrifice of American soldiers who have fallen in the line of duty.
“They chose a life of purpose,” the commander-in-chief said. “It sounds corny, like a Memorial Day speech, but I mean it from the bottom of my heart. They chose a life of purpose.”
The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/30/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-154th-national-memorial-day-observance/">remarks</a> — delivered at Arlington National Cemetery — occurred on the first Memorial Day after the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan ended which, combined with the Iraq conflict, claimed the lives of 7,054 American service members.
“They lie here in glory and honor … in graves across our country, in towns large and small — America’s beloved daughters and sons who dared all, risked all, and gave all to preserve and defend an idea unlike any other in human history: the idea of the United States of America,” Biden said. “And today, as a nation, we undertake a sacred ritual: to reflect and to remember.”
Biden noted that May 30 marks the seven-year anniversary of the death of his eldest son, Beau Biden, who served in the Delaware Army National Guard and deployed to Iraq while serving as the state’s attorney general.
“He didn’t die in the line of duty. He came home from Iraq with cancer. It was a horrific cancer that stole … him from us,” Biden said. “But still, it always feels to me on Memorial Day — I see him, not as he was the last time I held his hand, but the day I pinned his bars on him as a second lieutenant. … Days like this bring back, before your eyes, their smile and their laugh. And the last conversation you had.”
Biden emphasized that Americans have a duty to care for the families of service members “when they return home and when they don’t.”
“This is an obligation that unites Americans and brings us together — to make sure the women and men who are willing to lay down their lives for us get the very best from us in return,” Biden said, adding that lawmakers are seeking to provide healthcare services for veterans impacted by toxic exposures overseas. “We don’t know how many Americans and service members may have died because of what they were exposed to on the battlefield. The toxic smoke from burn pits near where they were based — burn pits that incinerated the wastes of war, medical and hazardous material, jet fuel, and so much more.”
Biden also paid tribute to the Ukrainians currently fending off an invasion from Russian forces.
“Freedom has never been free. Democracy has always required champions,” he said. “And, today, in the perennial struggle for democracy and freedom, Ukraine and its people are on the frontlines fighting to save their nation.”
“But their fight is part of a larger fight that unites all people. It is a fight that so many of the patriots, whose eternal rest is here in these hallowed grounds, were part of,” Biden continued. “A battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between appetites and ambition of a few who forever seek to dominate the lives and liberties of many.”
Biden told listeners that “the soul of America” is “worth the sacrifice.”
“Our memorial to them must not be just a day when we pause and pray, it must be a daily commitment to act, to come together, to be worthy of the price that was paid.”

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On Monday, in a scathing opinion piece for <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-cynicism-afghanistan-withdrawal-bagram-kabul-bombing-taliban-9-11-11630356746?st=0is0kayc6h5cqav&amp;reflink=share_mobilewebshare">The Wall Street Journal</a>, William McGurn, the chief speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, eviscerated President Biden for incessantly bring up his late son Beau after American servicemen and women were murdered by terrorists in Afghanistan. McGurn snapped, “Mr. Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV.”
McGurn began his essay by noting that some people hoped Biden might “reconsider letting the Taliban dictate the terms of our exit.” He added, “These people profoundly misunderstand the president and the political equations driving his decisions. For Mr. Biden, the top priority was to use the 20th anniversary of 9/11 to take a victory lap as the president who ended America’s longest war. When Kabul fell, it added a new imperative: avoid any U.S. combat casualties that would mar the moment. Even at the cost of leaving Americans behind enemy lines and abandoning our Afghan partners.”
“Critics who accuse the president of having no strategy miss the point: What we are seeing is the strategy,” McGurn posited. “It is based on Mr. Biden’s confidence that no one will hold the disastrous consequences of his decisions about Afghanistan against him so long as our troops are gone. Accept this and Afghanistan falls neatly into place.”
McGurn recalled Biden stating in July, “There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy.” McGurn commented, “Turned out plenty of folks were evacuated from our embassy in Kabul, but no helicopter dared land on the rooftop lest a photographer end up with an image too close to Saigon ’75 for the political comfort of the commander in chief. “
“Ditto for rescuing Americans in and around the city,” McGurn continued. “Too great a risk of a replay of Mogadishu and another ‘Black Hawk Down.’ So instead of sending highly trained soldiers and Marines outside the airport to do it their way and on their terms, they were largely confined to the airport while Central Intelligence Agency teams and volunteer groups brought people out.”
McGurn wrote bluntly, “George W. Bush surged troops to fight in Iraq. Barack Obama surged troops to fight in Afghanistan. Mr. Biden surged them to pack up and go home.”
McGurn then turned to Biden’s avoidance of any sort of mea culpa:
<blockquote>Meantime, the president refuses to acknowledge any hint of failure, much less his own culpability. He has variously denied making any mistakes, claimed he anticipated the entire mess, and wherever possible blamed Donald Trump.
He also dodges the hard question by constantly insisting the issue in contention is his decision to leave rather than the deadly hash he’s made of it. And he bizarrely keeps invoking his son, the late Maj. Beau Biden, a Delaware Army National Guard lawyer who served honorably in Baghdad and whose early death from brain cancer was tragic but has nothing to do with Afghanistan, much less the 11 Marines, Navy corpsman and Army soldier killed in Thursday’s suicide bombing. Mr. Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV.</blockquote>
McGurn concluded:
<blockquote>In demanding moments, great presidents appeal to the better angels of our nature. But Mr. Biden’s presidency now rests on a cynical bet that, by the time Sept. 11 rolls around, a war-weary American people will share the president’s indifference to what he has now wrought in Afghanistan. We can already imagine his response to any newsman who dares bring it up. 
C’mon, man. That was two weeks ago.</blockquote>

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Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden could not remember what his late son Beau Biden did for work during a CNN town hall event on Thursday night, falsely claiming that his son was &#8220;Attorney General of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;Never direct the Justice Department as to who they should or should not indict and under what circumstances they should or should not,&#8221; Biden told the audience at the event. &#8220;That is an independent judgement to be made.&#8221;
&#8220;My son, the one who, my deceased son, was the Attorney General of the United States,&#8221; Biden falsely claimed, adding, &#8220;and before that, he was a federal prosecutor in one of the largest offices in the country in Philadelphia.&#8221;
&#8220;And I&#8217;ll tell you what, he wouldn&#8217;t even talk to me about anything he was doing – his father – and he shouldn&#8217;t have, and I didn&#8217;t have any control over either one of those things,&#8221; Biden added.
Biden&#8217;s son was not the Attorney General of the United States; he was the Attorney General of Delaware.
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FACT CHECK FOR JOE BIDEN:
Your son was not the &quot;Attorney General of the United States.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/QnoT0xKvCW">pic.twitter.com/QnoT0xKvCW</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1230665048265252867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-joe-biden-stand-issues-heres-everything-josh-hammer">highlighted</a> Biden&#8217;s stances on policy issues in a profile piece last September:
Constitution: As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987–1995, Biden oversaw two of the most contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations in recent memory: Those of Reagan nominee Robert Bork and Bush nominee Clarence Thomas. Along with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Biden helped orchestrate and lead the personally nasty, full-frontal assault that ultimately resulted in the Bork nomination’s failure. Biden’s legislative posture has indicated an expansive view of congressional regulatory power: He helped lead the passing of the Violence Against Women Act, which was partially invalidated on constitutional grounds by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000.
Economy: Biden is best described as a Keynesian who believes in the purported economic benefits of large-scale government investments and deficit spending. Along with then-President Obama, Biden shepherded through a massive fiscal stimulus package in the duo’s first year in office, oversaw the passing of the regulation-heavy Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, dramatically expanded the national debt, and hiked income taxes on the wealthy. Biden has long been supportive of a greater federal role in infrastructure spending. On the issue of trade, Biden voted for NAFTA in 1993. Biden has opposed the privatization of Social Security.
Health Care: Along with Obama, Biden helped oversee the 2010 passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare. Obamacare radically reshaped the individual market for health insurance, infamously included a tax/mandate to purchase health insurance, and generally dramatically expanded the role of government in the regulation and provision of health care. There is likely no Obama/Biden agenda item that conservatives have more consistently opposed than Obamacare. Biden has never indicated any willingness to structurally reform fiscally ruinous health care-related entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. As part of his 2020 presidential nomination platform, Biden has claimed opposition to “Medicare for All.”
Immigration: Biden voted for the George W. Bush-era Secure Fence Act of 2006, but has also consistently supported amnesty policies throughout his career — including the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 and the failed “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in 2013. Biden served as vice president when Obama issued two major unilateral executive amnesties, DACA in 2012 and DAPA in 2014 — each of which has been fiercely opposed by conservatives and has been challenged in high-profile lawsuits.
Foreign Policy: Biden has cultivated a largely dovish foreign policy profile, although he did vote in favor of authorizing the Iraq War in 2003. As vice president, Biden was a leading proponent for and cheerleader of President Obama’s 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran — a deal which flushed the terror-supporting mullahs’ coffers with cash and did not place any restrictions whatsoever on Iran’s non-nuclear ballistic missile program. During his 2008 presidential campaign, Biden pushed hard for a solution to the Iraqi quagmire that divided the troubled nation into discrete Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish semi-autonomous sections. Although a self-described friend of Israel, Biden has often been harshly critical of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian-Arabs and <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/menachem-begin-to-joe-biden-i-am-not-a-jew-with-trembling-knees/2015/04/03/">allegedly once threatened</a> to cut off U.S. aid to Israel. Along with Obama, Biden as vice president took steps to loosen the U.S.’s longstanding embargo on Cuba, although the U.S. received no tangible concessions from Cuba’s communist dictatorship before doing so.
Abortion: Biden described himself as “personally pro-life” while nonetheless believing that Roe v. Wade was correctly decided and that women have a constitutional right to abortion. For decades, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment — which prohibits federal funding of abortion — but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48137/watch-biden-flips-using-taxpayer-money-fund-james-barrett">flipped his position</a> in 2019 to appease the hard-left Democratic activists who now comprise the base of the party.
Guns: Biden was a leading proponent and sponsor of the federal “assault weapons” ban, a subset of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Throughout his career, he has generally been supportive of curtailing Second Amendment rights. Biden has also supported mandating five-day waiting periods for gun purchases, as well as closing the alleged “gun show loophole.” Biden supports a ban on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called “assault weapons” — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.

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