President Donald Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, along with several Gold Star recipient families, to pay tribute to the fallen in action — specifically, the 13 service members killed in the Biden-Harris administration's failed attempt to withdraw troops from Afghanistan exactly three years ago.
The attempt by a former and potential future commander in chief to keep alive the memory of American soldiers who died under his successor's command drew an outright denunciation in Esquire magazine.
Charles P. Pierce, chief political blogger for Hearst Publications,
An enthusiastic work On Monday, he asked, “How did this happen?[?]”
“Donald Trump shouldered the burden with me for a few hours.”
The cemetery, where the Biden-Harris administration last year trampled graves and toppled a Jewish-American-designed reconciliation memorial, is open to the public, so it's unclear who Pierce expected to block Trump's entry.
Still, Pierce wrote in outrage on behalf of the nation, Gold Star families and those who watched without protest as President Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier along with two servicemen injured in the Abbey Gate bombing:
Arlington is desecrated by his presence on any normal day, but to allow it to be used to bolster one of the Republican Party's most damaging half-truths, propagated by its most toxic elements, represented by its most toxic candidate, is an insult to the more than 400 Medal of Honor recipients buried there.
Pierce added: “It will be argued that the former president was invited to Monday's ceremony by the family of the slain soldier, which is all well and good.
Mar-a-LagoIf you are in debt, you will not get anything out of this appearance.”
The left-wing blogger's insinuation that the Gold Star families invited Trump in the hope of receiving something financial “in return” suggests that Trump wasn't listening when the Gold Star families made it clear that they really wanted some time and recognition for their lost loved ones.
Last month, the families of several soldiers killed during the withdrawal from Afghanistan
On stage At the Republican National Convention.
“Joe Biden has refused to acknowledge their sacrifice. Donald Trump spent six hours with us in Bedminster. He allowed us to grieve. He allowed us to remember our heroes,” said Christy Shamblin, stepmother of Marine Sergeant Nicole Gee, fighting back tears.
“Donald Trump knew all of our children's names. He knew their histories,” Shamblin continued, “and he spoke to us in a way that made us feel understood, as if he knew our children. … Donald Trump bore his burden with me for a few hours. For the first time since Nicole's death, I felt like I wasn't alone in my grief.”
Alicia Lopez, the mother of Corporal Hunter Lopez, told the crowd, “Nearly three years since Hunter passed away, there has been silence. Silence from the empty dinner table where Hunter would have been gathered with his brothers, his sisters and our family. And there has been a deafening silence from the Biden-Harris Administration.”
“Even though we asked for explanations and accountability, they tried to push us away and silence us,” Lopez said.
Kamala Harris too
I once boasted Regarding the approval of the Afghanistan withdrawal strategy and now entering its second week as President Joe Biden And one more thing They were in Arlington on Monday, on vacation. both issued A tribute from afar.
Pierce made no criticism of their absence, instead calling Trump's presence “indecent.”
“If the family found some comfort in his presence on Monday, I respect that and I hope it brings them some solace. But I'm a U.S. citizen.
Stake In a place like Arlington, I would consider his presence there obscene,” the blogger wrote.
As he tried to make his point, Pierce again implied that Trump had called the military “stupid and losers,” a completely baseless smear used by Democrats.
Snopes
Shown There is no audio or video evidence that President Trump ever called fallen soldiers “morons” or “losers,” nor are there any “records, presidential memos, or other documents” to support the anonymous claims made by Trump critic Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic in a September 2020 article.
The blogger also managed to include an attack on the late Rush Limbaugh, suggesting that Trump had “degraded” the Congressional Medal of Honor by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an entirely separate award created by President Harry Truman to recognize civilian service.
Limbaugh certainly deserves the award for his decades of public service in radio. Tens of millions of dollars Before his death, he donated millions of dollars to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society through the show's annual radiothon, as well as millions more to various other charities.
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