Joe Biden’s napping allegedly kept families of the fallen waiting 3 hours
One of the family members of the Marines killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal said that grieving families had to wait three hours before seeing their loved ones’ remains transported. Joe Biden reportedly was napping on Air Force One on the tarmac. Biden’s presence was required for the remains to be transferred to their next stop. Roice McCollum described this incident as one of two insults. The other insult being Biden’s checking his watch when the remains were being transported.
From Daily Mail:
While Biden was absent from the withdrawal planning, he did show up to greet the caskets of the US Servicemen and woman who were killed, infamously checking his watch on the tarmac before their coffins were brought out.
It was his second insult to their families that day, according to the sister of Rylee McCollum, one of the men who died.
‘(Biden) made us wait an extra three hours to receive the bodies of our dead family members because he couldn’t pull it together,’ Roice McCollum told DailyMail.com.
Roice said she and others were waiting for Biden to appear when a military officer told her he was napping on his plane.
Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, and Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, who were also killed in the Kabul blast, told DailyMail.com that their families were also left waiting on the tarmac.
‘We sat in that office for what seemed like an eternity waiting on the doddering old fool,’ Hoover recalled.
The White House denied the families’ claims.
A spokesperson told Daily Mail: ‘That claim is untrue. As President Biden said on the 4th anniversary of the tragic attack on Abbey Gate and in the letters he wrote to family members after meeting with them in Dover, ‘these 13 Americans–and the many more that were wounded–were patriots in the highest sense’ and ‘we owe them and their families a sacred debt we will never be able to fully repay, but will never cease working to fulfill.’
‘The President honors these families, who have given more to their nation than anyone ever could, and holds them in the highest regard’
Summing up the experience that day, Roice said Biden ‘was far beyond a position where he should have been in office, but the powers that be covered it up. We were left in the dark – worse than that, we were blatantly lied to.’
Additional Reading:
Potter, W., & Laco, K. (2024, December 20). Senile Biden’s insult to families of Marines murdered in disastrous Afghan withdrawal. Daily Mail. Link.
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