{"id":22734,"date":"2024-01-16T20:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T02:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22734"},"modified":"2024-01-16T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T02:07:09","slug":"gold-star-parents-say-trump-the-man-for-the-job-blame-coward-biden-for-sons-death-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22734","title":{"rendered":"Gold Star parents say Trump &#8216;the man for the job,&#8217; blame &#8216;coward&#8217; Biden for son&#8217;s death in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&#8216;He is responsible for the murder of my son,&#8217; Kelly Barnett said of President Biden<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Gold Star parents of a Marine killed in President Biden&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/bidens-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-haunts-2024-election-book-claims-13-americans-never-die\"><u>botched 2021 Afghanistan<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;withdrawal told Fox News on the day of the Iowa caucuses Monday that former President Trump is the &#8220;man for the job,&#8221; while blaming the incumbent for their son&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Darin Hoover Sr. and Kelly Barnett \u2013 the parents of fallen Staff Sgt. Darin &#8220;Taylor&#8221; Hoover Jr. \u2013 told &#8220;The Story&#8221; the Biden administration gave them &#8220;incomplete&#8221; and flawed reports in the aftermath of the August 2021 withdrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A suicide bombing attributed to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-department-afghanistan-withdrawal-review-blames-trump-biden-administrations-painful-lessons\"><u>ISIS-Khorosan group<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;at Hamid Karzai International Airport&#8217;s Abbey Gate was found to be the cause of death for Sgt. Hoover and 12 other servicemembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Darin Hoover Sr. also previously told Fox News he was incensed witnessing Biden repeatedly check his watch as his son&#8217;s body was later unloaded during his dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, Del.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In 2022 public comments, Barnett said her family was treated with &#8220;total disrepect&#8221; and called Biden, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin &#8220;incompetent cowards; evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Barnett expounded upon those thoughts on Fox News, saying her son told her soon after arriving in Kabul that he felt the &#8220;upper command&#8221; wasn&#8217;t showing the proper care for the troops and that it was &#8220;complete chaos.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The communication was abysmal at best,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/media\"><u>.the elder Hoover added<\/u><\/a>, saying the reports they received from the government didn&#8217;t match what people on the ground in Afghanistan were communicating back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Anchor Martha MacCallum played for the parents a clip of Biden in the immediate aftermath of the withdrawal claiming &#8220;extraordinary success&#8221; and offering praise for the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Well, our military is excellent. What goes through my mind is that he&#8217;s a coward. He is responsible for the murder of my son. That&#8217;s that&#8217;s what goes through my mind,&#8221; Barnett said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Barnett said that statement by Biden in itself is enough to call for him to resign the presidency and allow Trump back into the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">MacCallum further asked Hoover Sr. about his reported plan to speak out in favor of Trump&#8217;s candidacy from now through election day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Elections have consequences, [and] in order for us to get the country back to the way it should be and needs to be, I think the clear winner should and will be President Trump,&#8221; Hoover Sr. said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Trump is the man for the job,&#8221; added Barnett, who also called the Republican front-runner an honest man who cares about the country and all Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I looked that man (Trump) in the face several times; spoke to him. He cares about me \u2013 he cares about you\u2026 more importantly to me he cares about my son.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;It happened on every single [fallen servicemember&#8217;s coffin] that came out of that airplane\u2026 They would release the salute, and [Biden] would look down at his watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;On every last one, all 13, he looked down at his watch,&#8221; Hoover Sr. said, calling the president&#8217;s behavior disrespectful and underlining that he and his family later declined an invitation to meet with Biden afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On &#8220;The Story,&#8221; Barnett said she believes that if elected, Trump will never allow a situation like the Kabul withdrawal to happen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sgt. Hoover&#8217;s parents also spoke about how their son, though seriously wounded, continued to hand out ammunition to his fellow U.S. servicemembers as chaos ensued at the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/gold-star-parents-trump-the-man-job-blame-coward-biden-sons-death-kabul\">Foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;He is responsible for the murder of my son,&#8217; Kelly Barnett said of President Biden The Gold Star parents of a Marine killed in President Biden&#8217;s&nbsp;botched 2021 Afghanistan&nbsp;withdrawal told Fox News on the day of the Iowa caucuses Monday that former President Trump is the &#8220;man for the job,&#8221; while blaming the incumbent for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1251,1169,25613,25934,5843,3282,1230,2495],"class_list":["post-22734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-afghanistan","tag-biden","tag-complaint","tag-dead-family","tag-kabul","tag-marines","tag-trump","tag-withdrawal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22736,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734\/revisions\/22736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}