Posted on 08/30/2021 10:30:40 AM PDT by lightman
President Joe Biden attended the dignified transfers of the U.S. service members at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday, with the family members in attendance. After the ceremony, Biden met with some of the families but according to the Washington Post, one meeting did not go well.
The service members, which comprised of Marines, a Navy Corpsman, and a solider, were killed on Thursday after a suicide bomber and gunman attacked the Abbey gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport. Over 100 Afghan civilians were also killed in the attack.
The family of Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum — his sisters Roice, his father, and McCollum's wife, Jiennah McCollum — were at Dover for the ceremony, but only Jiennah went to meet with Biden as the rest of the family did not want to speak with Biden because they hold him responsible for Rylee's death:
"Only Jiennah, who is expecting the couple's child next month, stayed. But she left disappointed, Roice said. The president brought up his son, Beau, according to her account, describing his son's military service and subsequent death from cancer. It struck the family as scripted and shallow, a conversation that lasted only a couple of minutes in 'total disregard to the loss of our Marine,' Roice said.
"'You can't f--- up as bad as he did and say you're sorry,' Roice said of the president. 'This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands.'
"The White House declined to comment on the private conversations Biden had with families."
The McCollum's reaction tracks with what I was told from sources close to some of the Gold Star families, who said more than one of the families did not even want Biden to attend the dignified transfers.
"You can't have a hasty withdrawal after 20 years of war," Paula Knauss, mother of Ssgt. Ryan Knauss, told the Post. "Because it's beyond me. It disgraces the name of all those who have fought in the past and who are now on ground, foreign ground fighting right now, my son's [82nd] Airborne is still there, and they deserve to be protected."
He got in trouble at Syracuse for plagiarizing. He had to do it. He was not a competent law student.
He got in trouble campaigning for the same reason. He felt obliged to steal from Neal Kinnock.
His poor performance with the grieving families at Dover is part and parcel of the the same problem.
He lacks emotional intelligence.
Spot on lady.
What the heck were Biden’s puppeteers thinking? No way that could have gone well.
Next up: A MSM article that “exposes” some dark secret of the widow’s past. Won’t matter if it’s true or not. Might be something as simple as having donated to Trump in 2016 and 2020. Could be worse.
I would have SPIT IN THE BASTARD’S FACE......................
Xiden is beyond disgraceful. What a complete f-up.
Did any of the other families speak to Biden? I can’t seem to find anything. I hope they spoke their mind to this loser.
Biden is described by his promoters as “empathetic.”
In reality he is just pathetic.
Somebody should ask Chris Wallace if he is proud of his attempting to bake a cake during the first debate.
The MSM owns this. They are more at fault than Joe.
Something, I'm sure, God himself will do eventually.
But he was smart enough to check his watch to make sure he didn’t miss wheel of fortune on TV.....
Jeez, what an idiot.
Stolen elections have dire consequences.
He got in trouble not because he was stupid, but because he was thinking with his, you know, the thing.
“Mr. So-called President, you have done terrible things to the troops and our allies in Afghanistan.”
“My son Beau died six years ago.”
OK, I guess that makes it all fine ...
She should consider herself lucky he didn’t grope her.
Out of 328 million Americans, how did the most incompetent one become President?
He was probably instructed to not ask to feel the baby.
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