Joe Biden accused of forcing family of Marines killed in Afghanistan to attend for ‘an eternity’ as he napped on aircraft

Joe Biden accused of forcing family of Marines killed in Afghanistan to attend for ‘an eternity’ as he napped on aircraft


Dec 22, 2024 09:50 AM IST

Joe Biden allegedly took a nap throughout a “dignified switch” ceremony when he and Jill Biden have been alleged to welcome the caskets of the fallen troopers.

Joe Biden has been accused of forcing family of Marines killed in Afghanistan to attend for hours whereas he slept on Air Force One. Multiple members of the family of the troopers have alleged that the president made them wait.

Joe Biden accused of forcing family of Marines killed in Afghanistan to attend for ‘an eternity’ as he napped on aircraft (Photo by Ting Shen / AFP)(AFP)

Taliban terrorists killed 13 American troopers, in addition to over 170 Afghans at Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate in Afghanistan through the closing days of the American withdrawal from the nation. Biden allegedly took a nap throughout a “dignified switch” ceremony when he and Jill Biden have been alleged to welcome the caskets of the fallen troopers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

‘We sat in that workplace for what appeared like an eternity’

The members of the family mentioned Biden’s resolution to sleep as a substitute of greeting them was an insult to the recollections of the fallen troopers. Roice McCollum, whose brother Rylee McCollum was killed within the airport bloodbath, advised the Daily Mail that the commander-in-chief “made us wait an additional three hours to obtain the our bodies of our lifeless members of the family as a result of he couldn’t pull it collectively.”

A navy officer advised her Biden was taking a nap on the aircraft, mentioned Roice. Darin Hoover, the daddy of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, and Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, additionally confirmed the account. Taylor and Nicole died within the Kabul explosion.

“We sat in that workplace for what appeared like an eternity ready on the doddering previous idiot,” Hoover mentioned.

The Afghanistan withdrawal was broadly thought-about a catastrophe and mentioned to be a low level in Biden’s time period. Military households blasted him after he was filmed checking his watch through the dignified switch ceremony at Dover. However, White House allies dismissed the claims and prompt the second by no means occurred.

A rep for the White House additionally dismissed the napping claims. “That declare is unfaithful. As President Biden mentioned on the 4th anniversary of the tragic assault on Abbey Gate and within the letters he wrote to members of the family after assembly with them in Dover, ‘these 13 Americans — and the numerous extra that have been wounded — have been patriots within the highest sense’ and ‘we owe them and their households a sacred debt we’ll by no means have the ability to totally repay, however won’t ever stop working to meet,’ a White House spokesman mentioned, in accordance with New York Post.

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