Former President Donald Trump launched an announcement from the Gold Star households of the 13 fallen United States service members who had been killed through the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In a put up on X, Trump shared a joint assertion from Misty Fuoco, the sister of Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole Gee; Cheryl Juels, the aunt of Gee; Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of Gee; Mark Schmitz, the daddy of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz; Jaclyn Schmitz, the stepmother of Schmitz; Herman Lopez, the daddy of Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez; Jim McCollum, the daddy of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum; Steve Nikoui, the daddy of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui; Coral Doolittle, the mom of Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez; Darin Hoover, the daddy of Marine Corps Employees Sgt. Taylor Hoover; and Kelly Barnett, the mom of Hoover.
The households wrote of their joint assertion that Vice President Kamala Harris’s assertion labeling Trump’s go to to Arlington Nationwide Cemetery to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the household’s misplaced family members and fallen servicemembers a “political stunt” was “false, hypocritical, and disrespectful.”
Within the assertion, the households added that Harris had “disgracefully twisted this sacred second right into a political ploy.”
“As we speak, Gold Star Households who misplaced their family members within the Harris-Biden Administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan launched the next joint assertion and heartfelt video messages in a direct response to Kamala Harris’ false, hypocritical, and disrespectful assertion attacking President Trump,” the assertion from the households started.
I need to thank the households of our Nice Warriors who’ve been misplaced to us for the way in which they got here collectively as one, and thanked me for attending, at their request, the Celebration of their fantastic members of the family who, due to the Incompetence of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden,… pic.twitter.com/ewkbVniBC0
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024
“We, the households of the courageous service members who had been tragically killed within the Abbey Gate bombing, are appalled by Vice President Kamala Harris’ current makes an attempt to politicize President Trump’s go to to Arlington Nationwide Cemetery,” the assertion continued. “President Trump was invited by us, the Gold Star households, to attend the solemn ceremonies commemorating the three-year anniversary of our youngsters’s deaths. He was there to honor their sacrifice, but Vice President Harris has disgracefully twisted this sacred second right into a political ploy.”
Trump responded to the assertion from the households by thanking them for coming “collectively as one” and for thanking him for attending the ceremony on the cemetery and blasted Harris and President Joe Biden for his or her “incompetence” and for being why the fallen service members had been “now not with us”:
I need to thank the households of our Nice Warriors who’ve been misplaced to us for the way in which they got here collectively as one, and thanked me for attending, at their request, the Celebrating of their fantastic members of the family who, due to the Incompetence of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, are now not with us. Thanks for saying you wished me to face with you at Arlington Nationwide Ceremony, and take photos, that it was your request, not mine, however it was my Nice Honor to take action. I WILL NEVER FORGET! Light-weight V.P. Kamala Harris tried turning it round, as a result of they weren’t there, have by no means spoken to the households, and haven’t any intention to take action. In Afghanistan, you don’t take the Troopers out first, you’re taking the Troopers out final. This might be Navy 101, probably the most fundamental, and the “leaders” of that Catastrophe ought to be instantly fired. We’ve FOOLS within the White Home, and now, they’re making an attempt to resolve the Hostage Disaster in Israel. Guess how that’s going to end up?
The joint assertion from the households comes after Trump posted movies from the Gold Star households on each Fact Social and X, through which the households blasted Harris for her assertion attacking Trump for his go to to the cemetery.
Harris’s assertion criticizing Trump’s go to to Arlington Nationwide Cemetery got here days after NPR launched an article claiming that officers from the Trump marketing campaign had been concerned in a “verbal and bodily altercation” with a cemetery official who had tried to stop the Trump marketing campaign from having the ability to movie and take pictures in Part 60 of the cemetery.
