Family members of the US Marines killed in last week’s suicide terror attack are livid and slamming President Biden for his horrendous behavior at the transfer ceremony over the weekend — one Gold Star father said it was “the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen” as Biden repeatedly looked at his watch after every casket came down from the plane.
Not only did Biden reportedly check his watch multiple times…
Gold Star Father Darin Hoover, whose son Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover was killed in Kabul, alleges that President Biden looked down at his watch when all 13 fallen service members arrived at Dover Air Force Base:
"That happened on every single one of them." pic.twitter.com/PC83XWNWsx
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 31, 2021
…he repeatedly invoked his own son, Beau, who died six years ago of brain cancer and served in the Delaware National Guard.As WaPo notes:
Mark Schmitz had told a military officer the night before that he wasn’t much interested in speaking to a president he did not vote for, one whose execution of the Afghan pullout he disdains — and one he now blames for the death of his 20-year-old son Jared.
Schmitz did not want to hear about Beau, he wanted to talk about Jared. Eventually, the parents took out a photo to show to Biden. “I said, ‘Don’t you ever forget that name. Don’t you ever forget that face. Don’t you ever forget the names of the other 12,’ ” Schmitz said. “ ‘And take some time to learn their stories.’ ”
Biden did not seem to like that, Schmitz recalled, and he bristled, offering a blunt response: “I do know their stories.”
“When he just kept talking about his son so much it was just — my interest was lost in that. I was more focused on my own son than what happened with him and his son,” said Schmitz. “I’m not trying to insult the president, but it just didn’t seem that appropriate to spend that much time on his own son.”
“…when you’re the one responsible for ultimately the way things went down, you kind of feel like that person should own it a little bit more. Our son is now gone. Because of a direct decision or game plan — or lack thereof — that he put in place.”
Another Gold Star family – relatives of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, did not want to meet with Biden.
“McCollum’s sisters and father joined his widow, Jiennah McCollum, on the trip to Dover — but when it came time to meet Biden, only Jiennah went in,” according to WaPo.
One of McCollum’s sisters felt Biden’s words were ‘scripted and shallow,’ and a conversation which only lasted a couple of minutes in “total disregard to the loss of our Marine — our brother, son, husband and father.”
“It had to be one of the hardest things he’s ever had to do,” said Schmitz. “You make some calls, here’s the aftereffect. It’s got to be difficult. I’m not saying it was easy at all. But you can’t run up and hug someone as if you had nothing to do with it. It’s not going to work that way when you’re commander in chief.”
Many of us remember Pres Bush 41 checking his watch during a debate and how awful it looked (even though we all felt same way about that debate.) But this is shocking and will be remembered. https://t.co/sFfW032JNm
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 29, 2021
