The Grotesque Kamala-Media War Against Abbey Gate Gold Star Families
Guy Benson
When then-candidate Donald Trump engaged in a war of words with Gold Star father Khizir Khan in 2016, the news media savaged Trump. The Clinton campaign featured Khan at the Democratic National Convention. Many on the center-right, myself included, publicly criticized Trump -- or at least questioned whether that particular battle was a constructive one. Eight years later, multiple Gold Star families are now responding passionately and harshly to a public statement from Kamala Harris, and many journalists who lavished Absolute Moral Authority upon Mr. Khan are either ignoring them or even implying they're liars. This despicable spectacle has been playing out over several days now, following Trump's visit to Arlington Cemetery on the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate terror attack outside Kabul airport during the Biden-Harris administration's chaotic and violent Afghanistan withdrawal.
Some background: The terrorist responsible for that bombing, which murdered 13 American service members, had been freed by fellow terrorists from a prison at an American air base abandoned by Biden and Harris. The administration had also declined a Taliban offer for US troops to secure the country's capital city during the final stages of the pullout. These terrible and fateful decisions directly contributed to the disgraceful confluence of events that characterized the American exit. President Biden had pledged that the withdrawal would be orderly and calm, that terrorists wouldn't take over the country, and that we wouldn't leave Americans or American allies behind. All three promises were utterly shattered. Vice President Kamala Harris has boasted that she was the last person in the room in counseling Biden in favor of this policy, which she fully supported. The official Biden-Harris line is that this blood-stained, enemy-emboldening, ally-alienating disaster constituted an "extraordinary success."
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