President Biden forced grieving relatives of Marines killed in Afghanistan to wait for hours while he took a nap on Air Force One, multiple family members said.
On August 26, Taliban militants killed 13 US soldiers and more than 170 Afghans at the AB Gate of Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan.
The attack occurred during the final days of the chaotic American withdrawal from the country.
Biden’s alleged nap occurred during a “dignified transfer” ceremony when the president and first lady Jill Biden were to welcome the caskets of fallen soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The families said the octogenarian leader’s decision to take a nap on the road instead of welcoming them was an insult to the memories of their loved ones.
Biden “made us wait an extra three hours to get the bodies of our dead family members because he couldn’t pull it together,” Royce McCallum told the dailymail,
McCallum’s brother, Riley McCallum, was killed in the massacre at the airport.
Roese said a military official told him Biden was taking a nap on the plane.
That account was also confirmed by Darin Hoover, father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, and Christy Shamblin, mother-in-law of Marine Sgt. Nicole G.
Both soldiers were killed in the Kabul blast.
Hoover told the Mail, “We sat in that office for what seemed like an eternity waiting for that dodgy old fool.”
The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war is widely seen as a low point in Biden’s tenure.
He faced criticism from military families after being filmed checking his watch During the dignified transfer ceremony in Dover.
white house aide tried to insist later That moment never happened.
A White House representative similarly insisted that Nap-Gate is wrong.
“That claim is untrue. As President Biden said in letters to family members on the fourth anniversary of the tragic attack at the Abbey Gate and after meeting with them in Dover, ‘These 13 Americans – and the many others who were injured – were patriots in the highest sense.’ The White House And ‘We owe them and their families a sacred debt that we will never fully repay, but we will never stop working to fulfill it,’ a spokesperson said.
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