Gold Star mother Paula Knauss Selph misplaced her son, Military Employees Sgt. Ryan Knauss, throughout the Biden-Harris administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, which additionally claimed the lives of 12 further service members.
Selph had harsh phrases for the Biden-Harris administration for persevering with to evade duck duty for the lethal failure.
She advised Fox News, “On today specifically, we’re all grieving over one thing that ought to have by no means, ever occurred the way in which it did.”
She continued, “It’s the dearth of accountability that has actually upset the nation on this. It’s the lack of empathy and sympathy for a state of affairs … at the least say I’m sorry.”
“At the least apologize for a scarcity of management.”
On Monday, President Trump advised a crowd that the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal value america its credibility on the world stage, saying that overseas leaders and dangerous actors now not “respect us.”
Selph advised Fox Information co-anchor Sandra Smith, “He’s proper. We misplaced a number of credibility in our nation and in our world powers. Now we have misplaced it. And the one means we are going to acquire it again is that if we change into a world energy once more.”
After Trump laid wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery to honor the 13 fallen troopers killed within the suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport, a video confirmed him putting flowers at Ryan Knauss’ grave.
@realDonaldTrump speaks through cellphone to the household of SSG Ryan Knauss who couldn’t make it at this time, as he lays flowers at their boys grave … pic.twitter.com/QNUELSPJKA
— Chris LaCivita (@LaCivitaC) August 26, 2024
Selph defined, “He [Trump] known as me proper after that, and he expressed his sorrow at the truth that he must do this.”
“He jogged my memory that there are good leaders in our nation who will step up when the time comes [and] we are going to all be grateful when the change of hand occurs.”
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Whereas President Trump selected to face with Gold Star households and honor their family members, Joe Biden vacationed and Kamala Harris campaigned.
