Donald Trump Pays Tribute To Afghanistan Soldiers While Joe Biden ENJOYS Vacationing

Daily Report August 26,2024

Former President Donald Trump honored the 13 service members who died in a hasty Afghanistan exit, commemorating three years since the ISIS-K attack on Monday.

Trump met privately with the grieving families at Arlington National Cemetery, his first sojourn away from the White House in two weeks and instead Biden stayed put in Delaware.

The 13 U.S. service members and nearly 200 Afghans were killed when on August 26, a suicide bomber from ISIS-K identified as Abdul Rahman al-Logari detonated an bomb belt outside the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport.

While the White House issued statements from both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, the president had no public events planned as he remained at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Harris also had no public events on her schedule.

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“These 13 Americans — and the many more that were wounded — were patriots in the highest sense,” Biden said. “Some were born the year the war in Afghanistan started. Some were on their second or third tour. But all raised their hand to serve a cause greater than themselves — risking their own safety for the safety of their fellow Americans, Allies, and Afghan partners. They embodied the very best of who we are as a nation: brave, committed, selfless. And we owe them and their families a sacred debt we will never be able to fully repay, but will never cease working to fulfill.”

Members of the Trump team have been outspokenly slamming Biden over his handling of leaving Afghanistan and blasted the president, among other things, for not holding a formal ceremony to honor families with fallen service members.

The private event in Arlington drive the point about series of events which led to exit from American soldiers and ended with sensitive acknowledgment by Harris, who told CNN’s Dana Bash last August that she was “the last person in the room” when it came time for Biden to give a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down.

“As I have said, President Biden made the courageous and right decision to end America’s longest war,” Harris said Monday. “Over the past three years, our Administration has demonstrated we can still eliminate terrorists, including the leaders of al-Qaeda [sic] and ISIS, without troops deployed into combat zones. I will never hesitate to take whatever action necessary to counter terrorist threats and protect the American people and the homeland.”

Key Trump advisor Brian Hughes lamented the dark day by saying, “Today is a solemn day and terrible reminder of the failure of Harris and Biden to protect our standing in the world and the cost of that failure. Harris has proudly declared she was the last person in the room when she and Biden directed the botched withdrawal that cost the lives of Americans and our allies.”

Hughes added that “the message to Americans is they should see the stark contrast of the Trump record to the Harris/Biden record on how we use the nation’s military might in the world.”