(DailyVantage.com) – While President Biden vacationed on Rehoboth Beach, former President Donald Trump attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery honoring the 13 US service members killed three years ago during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Trump, who was invited by the 13 Gold Star families to attend the third-anniversary commemoration, joined the families to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The former president has repeatedly criticized President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and the loss of 13 service members during the Abbey Gate suicide bomb attack near the Kabul airport.
During a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last month, Trump described the Afghanistan withdrawal and the fall of Kabul as the most “embarrassing moment” in the country’s history.
Trump said that in the final 18 months of his presidency, not one US service member was killed in Afghanistan but after he left office and “a bunch of incompetent people took over,” the killing “started up again.”
He slammed Vice President Harris for bragging to CNN host Dana Bash that she was the last person in the room with President Biden when he decided to withdraw US troops in April 2021.
In a recent Truth Social post recognizing the third anniversary of the withdrawal, Trump described it as “gross incompetence” that left 13 US service members dead and hundreds more wounded. He blasted the Biden-Harris administration for leaving billions of dollars worth of military equipment and hundreds of Americans behind.
During a campaign rally in North Carolina last month, Trump said that he would demand letters of resignation from every official involved in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. He said he would expect the letters to be on his desk in the Oval Office by noon on January 20, 2025.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced last Monday that the families of the 13 service members would be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
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