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DOD Announces Investigation of Biden Admin.’s Deadly Afghanistan Withdrawal

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Nearly four years ago, then-President Joe Biden withdrew U.S. military forces from Afghanistan in a disastrous, ill-planned maneuver that cost the lives of 13 U.S. servicemembers and 170 civilians. Now, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are launching an investigation to determine how the withdrawal was botched.

In a Monday Department of Defense (DOD) memo shared with The Washington Stand, Hegseth wrote, “President Trump and I have formally pledged full transparency for what transpired during our military withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Department of Defense has an obligation, both to the American people and to the warfighters who sacrificed their youth in Afghanistan, to get to the facts.”

“This remains an important step toward regaining faith and trust with the American people and all those who wear the uniform and is prudent based on the number of casualties and equipment lost during the execution of this withdrawal operation,” Hegseth continued. He noted that the DOD has been conducting a months-long review of “this catastrophic event in our military’s history,” beginning shortly after Trump’s return to the White House. However, in order “to ensure that accountability for this event is met and that the complete picture is provided to the American people,” the DOD will establish a “Special Review Panel” to examine previous reviews, sources, witnesses, transcripts, and factual findings and “analyze the decision making that led to one of America’s darkest and deadliest international moments.” Hegseth pledged, “This team will ensure ACCOUNTABILITY to the American people and the warfighters of our great Nation.”

The DOD informed The Washington Stand that the panel will be led by Afghanistan War military veteran and senior DOD official and advisor Sean Parnell, along with Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s management of the withdrawal, and investigative reporter and author Jerry Dunleavy. Previously, Dunleavy played a key role in helping the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee conduct its own investigation and compile its own report on the withdrawal.

In comments to TWS, former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who oversaw the compilation and publication of the report, recounted, “The Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan ceded the country to the Taliban, abandoned our allies, and resulted in the deaths of 13 brave American servicemembers.” He stated, “This was a failure of epic proportions, yet President Biden and his Democratic allies in Congress tried to sweep it all under the rug.” The congressman continued, “I’m glad to see the Trump administration putting rightful focus on the impacts of this debacle — as the Foreign Affairs Committee did under my chairmanship — and working to improve accountability, transparency, and procedures to ensure this never happens again. The American people, our Afghan allies, and our Gold Star families deserve nothing less.”

The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s report, published in September, was the result of months of extensive investigations and hearings. The report concluded that the Biden administration “was determined to withdraw from Afghanistan … no matter the cost.” The administration therefore “ignored” the provisions of the Doha Agreement, a 2020 treaty between the U.S. and the Taliban establishing the terms for a phased U.S. withdrawal, as well as the “pleas of the Afghan government, and the objections by our NATO allies, deciding to unilaterally withdraw from the country.”

The Biden administration also “prioritized the optics of the withdrawal over the security of U.S. personnel on the ground,” subsequently failing “to plan for all contingencies, including a noncombatant evacuation operation (NEO) and refused to order a NEO until after the Taliban had already entered Kabul.” That failure to initiate an NEO in time resulted in jeopardizing the lives of numerous DOD and State Department personnel in Kabul and the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers, as well as at least 45 others who were wounded.

According to the report, Biden administration personnel and officials, especially members of the National Security Council and then-National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan, actively lied to the American public about the withdrawal and the circumstances surrounding it. In some cases, DOD personnel under the Biden administration’s command also destroyed hard drives and laptops, an act the report referred to as “inexcusable errors.” The report added, “As evidenced by this investigation, record collection and preservation are key to ensuring another such catastrophe does not occur again and preventing the loss of American life.”

“In the aftermath of the withdrawal, U.S. national security was degraded as Afghanistan once again became a haven for terrorists, including al Qaeda and ISISK,” the report stated. It continued, “America’s credibility on the world stage was severely damaged after we abandoned Afghan allies to Taliban reprisal killings — the people of Afghanistan we had promised to protect. And the moral injury to America’s veterans and those still serving remains a stain on this administration’s legacy.”

“Beyond the impact the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan and abandon our allies for 20 years,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Bill Roggio tells The Washington Stand, “the Department of Defense should investigate what its prior leadership knew about the security situation at the time, Al Qaeda’s presence in the country, and how terror groups would thrive after the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government.

“Al Qaeda was closely allied with the Taliban at the time of the withdrawal,” he continued, “and fought alongside the Taliban to conquer the country. Today, Al Qaeda has significant infrastructure in the country, including terror training camps in 13 provinces, safe houses, religious schools, and a weapons storage depot. The infrastructure didn’t materialize out of thin air; it was the result of years of a close alliance forged in blood and sacrifice. The Taliban has paid its debt to Al Qaeda, and the world is far less safe today because of it.”

Trump has repeatedly and openly castigated the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal. When Kabul was taken by the Taliban in August 2021, Trump called on Biden to “resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan,” adding that the botched withdrawal “will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American history!”

On the three-year anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul that claimed the lives of the 13 U.S. servicemembers, Trump referred to the withdrawal as “the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country…” While Biden and his deputy, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, criticized Trump for appearing at an Arlington National Cemetery event commemorating the fallen soldiers, the families of those soldiers defended Trump’s presence and lambasted Biden and Harris for their mismanagement of the troop withdrawal.

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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IG Reports Give Fuller Accounting of Biden Military Lowlights

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“The sins of some people are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later” (1 Timothy 5:24). This principle of biblical wisdom is just as valid in politics. Not every fault is instantly known and judged; others only “appear later” — but, rest assured, they “cannot remain hidden” (1 Timothy 5:25). In November 2024, voters knew enough about President Biden’s failure to reject his party’s successor, but the full accounting of Biden’s blunders will only come to light with time.

That accounting has now begun. Congressional committees and inspectors general had already begun investigations into the most egregious failings of the previous administration, but stonewalling tactics threw sand in the gears. As the Trump administration feels no compunction about exposing the missteps of its predecessor, those investigations will now move forward much more smoothly.

Gaza Pier

One such accounting concerns the infamous floating pier that Biden ordered the U.S. military to assemble along the coast of Gaza. The whole exercise was political — a subtle dig at Israel for insisting on screening aid that entered Gaza overland, a transparent concession to the pro-Hamas rabble that Biden sought to placate, and a stubborn refusal to acknowledge that Hamas would promptly loot aid humanitarian aid that arrived in Gaza (even off the pier!)

Operation Neptune Solace, as the pier project was dubbed, required the labor of 1,000 U.S. servicemembers over several months, as well as $320 million in equipment, yet it disintegrated almost instantly. As it turns out the pier was not designed to withstand even a “gentle breeze,” which is average weather on the Gaza coast. After only 20 days of partial operation, including multiple repairs, the pier operation was abandoned.

Of course, the Biden administration tried to spin this not as a total failure, but as a partial success. The pier did deliver some aid — about a third of the aid it hoped to land — and the operation’s total casualties amounted to three soldiers with non-combat injuries, the Pentagon said.

According a new report released this month by the DOD Inspector General (IG), this casualty estimate was just plain wrong. “In response to our request and a review of records, USCENTCOM reported that 62 U.S. personnel suffered injuries during Operation Neptune Solace,” the report stated. “Based on the information provided, we were not able to determine which of these 62 injuries occurred during the performance of duties or resulted off duty or from pre-existing medical conditions.” One soldier, who was medevacked from the pier in May with critical injuries, died in October.

The loss in material was also substantial. “The Navy reported damage to 27 watercraft and INLS equipment pieces totaling approximately $31 million,” the IG recorded, while the Army’s total damage report was classified. Much of the damage was due to equipment that was punctured or bent after colliding in the rolling seas; the Army and Navy’s separate equipment was never designed to be used together. But what do 60 soldiers and $30 million matter in pursuit of political brownie points?

The Biden Pentagon could keep the Gaza pier’s devastating toll under wraps for a while, but the true impact did “appear later.”

Afghanistan Equipment

Only days earlier, another inspector general report slammed another critical failure of the Biden administration. In an ill-advised decision to withdraw from Afghanistan by a pre-determined, arbitrary deadline, President Biden ordered American forces to evacuate the country in haste, leaving behind equipment, allies, and even American citizens. More specifically, the U.S. left behind 78 aircraft, 40,000 military vehicles, and over 300,000 weapons.

Even worse, Biden’s hasty retreat kneecapped the friendly, democratic government of Afghanistan, causing it to collapse rapidly before an advancing Taliban, the very group America defenestrated from power more than two decades earlier. Even worse, it now appears that the Taliban has reverted to its old ways, allowing more than two dozen terrorist organizations to train on its soil, including at least four offshoots of al-Qaeda.

In an April 30 report, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) succinctly compiled this information as follows:

“A February UN sanctions monitoring team report said that al Qaeda affiliates in Afghanistan … ‘continued to have access to weapons seized from the former Afghan National Army, transferred to them by the de facto authorities/Taliban or purchased from the black market.’ The Taliban army chief of staff said the regime planned to provide the army with more advanced weapons and equipment, but did not specify from where or whom it could come. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) reported that out of $18.6 billion worth of equipment that was transferred to the ANDSF between 2005 and August 2021, $7.12 billion remained in Afghanistan.”

From this summary, it’s not hard to infer that Biden’s disastrous withdrawal left high-tech American military equipment to the very terrorist organizations that we entered Afghanistan to destroy more than two decades ago.

Some of this came to light during the Biden administration — but it only came to light piecemeal and gradually, despite the administration’s refusal to accept (or assign) responsibility.

Conclusion

These are not the first reports exposing previous governmental misdeeds, nor will they be last. Congress this week also exposed the FBI’s deceptive mishandling of the 2017 assassination attempt of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other Republican lawmakers. Last month, the DOJ “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” assembled the first tranche of grievances to be redressed.

The point is, grievous mistakes have a way of becoming known eventually. Sin can only hide in the shadows for so long. It is therefore wise to take the advice of Proverbs, “Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).

American governments would be well served to frankly own up to their own shortcomings. Attempts to cover up the truth only lead to more political fallout in the long run. As Moses once warned a faction of Israelites who sought to avoid accountability, “be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23).

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Pentagon Spox: Trump Admin Has ‘Obligation’ To Hold Accountable Officials Involved In Afghanistan Withdrawal

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The Trump administration has an “obligation” to hold accountable the leadership involved in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, Department of Defense (DOD) spokesman Sean Parnell told the Daily Caller during a press briefing Monday.

Parnell responded to a question from the Caller about whether the DOD would commit to firing or disciplining any remaining leadership directly involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal.

“We’re in the process of figuring out what that investigation will look like,” Parnell stated.

He expounded on his experience serving in Afghanistan and detailed how former President Joe Biden’s withdrawal “horrified” him.

“I was horrified, in a lot of ways,” he said. “You think about how much time, and blood and treasure and American life that was lost in Afghanistan over 20 years, you think about that for a second — I’m 43 years old, and this country was at war in Afghanistan for 20 years.”

“Almost half of my life, this country was at war in Afghanistan,” he emphasized, adding how he witnessed the war firsthand.

“We bled the ground red in Afghanistan,” he said. “I watched my men do extraordinary things in support of a grateful nation and in support of a mission there, and to watch Afghanistan be surrendered in the way that it was, [it] was extremely difficult.”

The Abbey Gate bombing during the withdrawal killed 13 Americans and 170 Afghanistan civilians. The Trump administration, working with Pakistan’s Intelligence Service, captured the suspected planner of the bombing in March.

“Will those people be held accountable?” Parnell continued. “I think we have an obligation both to the American people and to the warfighters who fought in Afghanistan to hold the leadership accountable in some way.”

“Now, we don’t know what that looks like right now to hold the leadership of the Afghanistan withdrawal accountable,” he said. “If you have a private that loses a sensitive item, that loses night-vision goggles, and loses a weapon, you can bet that private’s going to be held accountable. The same and equal standards must apply to senior military leaders.”

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCOS) Gen. Mark Milley was involved in planning the withdrawal, and his security clearance was revoked by Trump in January.

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Eireann Van Natta

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How USAID Laundered Money to the Taliban

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UN pooled accounts. Pallets of cash. And a covert cash printing operation.

Freedom Center Investigates has a new article on how USAID laundered money to the Taliban.

I believe it’s an important article, but I also thought it might be a good idea to have a briefer more visual explainer of how the scheme worked. SIGAR, the government’s Afghan war watchdog, already provided a good visual breakdown of some of the scheme.

But let’s start here.

1. In 2021, Afghanistan’s central bank, controlled by the “financier of the IEDs” that had killed over 1,000 U.S. soldiers, began tweeting pictures of shipments of blue bags of hundred dollar bills as “humanitarian aid”.

Australia’s ABC even featured a photo of the blue bags on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport containing $40 million. One of several such shipments.

Where was the money coming from? Us.

2. Here’s how I break it down in ‘USAID’s Taliban Money Laundering Scheme’.

USAID put the money into pooled UN accounts which it did not control allowing it to deny sending money to the Taliban.

3. The UN bought and shipped billions in hundred dollar bills to Afghanistan. Then deposited them in a private bank and transferred money to ‘non-profits’ on the ground. This let the UN deny it was giving money to the Taliban.

4. The non-profits then exchanged the money with ‘Afghanis’ from a Taliban-controlled bank.

Here are SIGAR’s graphics for this arrangement.

Figure 1 – Request, Purchase , and Transport of UN Cash Shipments.

Figure 2 – Conversion Process of U.S. Dollars to Afghanis.

Now here’s where things get crazy.

5. The Afghani currency was being printed on behalf of the Taliban through the Biden administration. So we were behind the shipment of both dollars and Afghanis to the Taliban. The dollars were traded for Afghanis. And the Taliban got to prop up their currency and come away with a huge supply of dollars.

Now that you know how it worked, please read and share USAID’s Taliban Money Laundering Scheme where I delve into some of the implications of this arrangement.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center will continue fighting for accountability at USAID and every government agency that engaged in corruption and money laundering.

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‘Trump Is A Deal Man’: Wife Of American Hostage Ryan Corbett Explains Why She Flew To Mar-A-Lago

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President-elect Donald Trump shared Thursday, surrounded by Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, that he was being briefed on a potential deal to bring home three Americans held hostage by the Taliban. About 12 hours later, Anna Corbett, the wife of one of those hostages, Ryan Corbett, was on a plane headed towards the “winter White House.”

In a tweet Thursday night, Anna announced that she was packing her bags and heading down to the president-elect’s residence.

Anna has no real plan and, at the time of publication, no meeting on the books with Trump. She’s armed only with the mission of doing anything she can to get her husband home.

“It’s been going on very, very long for our family — 883 days today — and I have been begging and asking for a meeting with President Biden and hopeful that this situation would be resolved during this administration, and have not been given a meeting with the president yet. Anna said in an interview with the Daily Caller as she waited for her connecting flight down to Palm Beach. “In desperation, I decided with the children to plan a trip to Mar-a-Lago in the hopes of meeting with President Elect Trump.”

Anna told the Caller that several politicians are working on trying to get her a meeting with the president-elect.

“I think it would be totally amazing if I had a meeting with him within a day of asking for one, after waiting this long for a meeting with President Biden, and I am desperate,” Anna said.

Anna is packing, kissing her kids goodbye, and heading to Mar A Lago to try to get a meeting with President Trump because we know he can bring Ryan home. Help us make sure he sees this video. We can’t thank you enough for your support. #freeryancorbett #trump #bidenpic.twitter.com/vLf5nttcSX

— Free Ryan Corbett (@freeryancorbett) January 10, 2025

Ryan Corbett, a U.S. citizen from upstate New York, previously lived in Afghanistan with his family from 2010 to 2021, according to a website dedicated to bringing him home. Corbett was running local NGOs in Afghanistan before starting a microloan and consulting business in the country.

Corbett left Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover but made the decision to go back to get his business visa renewed and visit his staff in January 2022. During a second visit using his business visa in August 2022, Corbett was captured by the Taliban.

Over the last two years, Anna Corbett has made 16 trips to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to meet with President Joe Biden about a potential deal to rescue her husband, she previously told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). But in all 16 trips, Biden has never met with Anna.

But Anna is is hopeful that Trump can help her get something done.

“President Trump is a deal man. He has a strong track record of making really tough and significant deals,” a spokesperson for Anna told the Caller.

“The president of the United States, their job is to make the hardest decisions. That’s the stuff that gets to the desk. And for 883 days, Anna has been trying to get President Biden to make those hard decisions, and he hasn’t been willing to do it. And we’re hopeful that this will be different,” the spokesperson added.

With his term coming to an end, Biden reportedly has a deal on the table to rescue Corbett. Biden’s administration has been in talks with the Taliban about an agreement since at least July, and proposed in November that the group release three Americans — George Glezmann, Ryan Corbett and Mahmoud Habibi — in exchange for Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, an Afghan who the U.S. government claims was a high-ranking al Qaeda aide, sources told the WSJ.

Almost 800 days without Ryan. Please @POTUS bring him home #freeryancorbett pic.twitter.com/mSBv356lno

— Free Ryan Corbett (@freeryancorbett) October 15, 2024

The Taliban countered the Biden administration’s deal the same day it was offered, the WSJ reported. The Taliban proposed receiving Rahim and two others for Glezmann and Corbett. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in December that Biden has yet to decide on the deal.

“President Biden’s term is almost over. Before he goes there is talk that he may trade a Guantanamo, al Qaeda detainee for three American hostages held by the Taliban. Should he do that?” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump on Thursday.

“Well I haven’t looked at it, I will be looking at it. They are showing me tomorrow morning, they are showing me the trade … I haven’t been in favor of the trades they have made, but I am taking a look tomorrow. We will have something to announce tomorrow,” Trump answered.

Anna wants to make the pitch directly to Trump to get her husband home for her family. Captured for nearly two and a half years, Anna explained that Ryan has missed their three kids, Ketsia, 19, Miriam, 17 and Caleb, 14, grow up.

“We’re really close to family, and we’ve done everything together. Living overseas together had a lot of challenges. The children having to transition back to a new life in Western New York, without Ryan, going through so many changes and opportunities, and having Ryan miss all of that has just been very, very difficult for us,” an emotional Corbett told the Caller.

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Reagan Reese

White House correspondent. Follow Reagan on Twitter.

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Trump Is A Deal Man’: Wife Of American Hostage Ryan Corbett Explains Why She Flew To Mar-A-Lago

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President-elect Donald Trump shared Thursday, surrounded by Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, that he was being briefed on a potential deal to bring home three Americans held hostage by the Taliban. About 12 hours later, Anna Corbett, the wife of one of those hostages, Ryan Corbett, was on a plane headed towards the “winter White House.”

In a tweet Thursday night, Anna announced that she was packing her bags and heading down to the president-elect’s residence.

Anna has no real plan and, at the time of publication, no meeting on the books with Trump. She’s armed only with the mission of doing anything she can to get her husband home.

“It’s been going on very, very long for our family — 883 days today — and I have been begging and asking for a meeting with President Biden and hopeful that this situation would be resolved during this administration, and have not been given a meeting with the president yet. Anna said in an interview with the Daily Caller as she waited for her connecting flight down to Palm Beach. “In desperation, I decided with the children to plan a trip to Mar-a-Lago in the hopes of meeting with President Elect Trump.”

Anna told the Caller that several politicians are working on trying to get her a meeting with the president-elect.

“I think it would be totally amazing if I had a meeting with him within a day of asking for one, after waiting this long for a meeting with President Biden, and I am desperate,” Anna said.

Anna is packing, kissing her kids goodbye, and heading to Mar A Lago to try to get a meeting with President Trump because we know he can bring Ryan home. Help us make sure he sees this video. We can’t thank you enough for your support. #freeryancorbett #trump #bidenpic.twitter.com/vLf5nttcSX

— Free Ryan Corbett (@freeryancorbett) January 10, 2025

Ryan Corbett, a U.S. citizen from upstate New York, previously lived in Afghanistan with his family from 2010 to 2021, according to a website dedicated to bringing him home. Corbett was running local NGOs in Afghanistan before starting a microloan and consulting business in the country.

Corbett left Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover but made the decision to go back to get his business visa renewed and visit his staff in January 2022. During a second visit using his business visa in August 2022, Corbett was captured by the Taliban.

Over the last two years, Anna Corbett has made 16 trips to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to meet with President Joe Biden about a potential deal to rescue her husband, she previously told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). But in all 16 trips, Biden has never met with Anna.

But Anna is is hopeful that Trump can help her get something done.

“President Trump is a deal man. He has a strong track record of making really tough and significant deals,” a spokesperson for Anna told the Caller.

“The president of the United States, their job is to make the hardest decisions. That’s the stuff that gets to the desk. And for 883 days, Anna has been trying to get President Biden to make those hard decisions, and he hasn’t been willing to do it. And we’re hopeful that this will be different,” the spokesperson added.

With his term coming to an end, Biden reportedly has a deal on the table to rescue Corbett. Biden’s administration has been in talks with the Taliban about an agreement since at least July, and proposed in November that the group release three Americans — George Glezmann, Ryan Corbett and Mahmoud Habibi — in exchange for Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, an Afghan who the U.S. government claims was a high-ranking al Qaeda aide, sources told the WSJ.

Almost 800 days without Ryan. Please @POTUS bring him home #freeryancorbett pic.twitter.com/mSBv356lno

— Free Ryan Corbett (@freeryancorbett) October 15, 2024

The Taliban countered the Biden administration’s deal the same day it was offered, the WSJ reported. The Taliban proposed receiving Rahim and two others for Glezmann and Corbett. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in December that Biden has yet to decide on the deal.

“President Biden’s term is almost over. Before he goes there is talk that he may trade a Guantanamo, al Qaeda detainee for three American hostages held by the Taliban. Should he do that?” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump on Thursday.

“Well I haven’t looked at it, I will be looking at it. They are showing me tomorrow morning, they are showing me the trade … I haven’t been in favor of the trades they have made, but I am taking a look tomorrow. We will have something to announce tomorrow,” Trump answered.

Anna wants to make the pitch directly to Trump to get her husband home for her family. Captured for nearly two and a half years, Anna explained that Ryan has missed their three kids, Ketsia, 19, Miriam, 17 and Caleb, 14, grow up.

“We’re really close to family, and we’ve done everything together. Living overseas together had a lot of challenges. The children having to transition back to a new life in Western New York, without Ryan, going through so many changes and opportunities, and having Ryan miss all of that has just been very, very difficult for us,” an emotional Corbett told the Caller.

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

White House correspondent. Follow Reagan on Twitter.

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‘Wrote Her Off’: Mother Of Abbey Gate Survivor Details Being Ghosted By Jill Biden During Son’s Recovery

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A basket of muffins, a photo with the president, a few phone calls and one dinner.

That’s all Tiffany Andrews, mother of Abbey Gate survivor Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, says she received from the Biden-Harris administration in the three years since her son was severely wounded in the Kabul terrorist attack.

A single mother of three and California business owner, Andrews uprooted her life to be by her son’s side as he fought for his at Walter Reed Hospital. Her situation inspired her to create and push legislation for caretakers left without a livelihood as they cared for their wounded soldiers.

Despite visits, a personal phone call with First Lady Jill Biden and meetings with her aides, Andrews told the Daily Caller she was ultimately ignored by the administration.

“My naivety, right? I’m thinking the government’s going to swoop in and take care of us. Oh, God, was I so wrong,” Andrews said.

The Daily Caller recently sat down with Vargas-Andrews, who was severely wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Abbey Gate during the U.S. evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan. He recounted his experience meeting President Joe Biden, being shunned by Vice President Kamala Harris, and coming face-to-face with death. The interview can be seen in full here.

This week, the Daily Caller sat with Andrews for an hour-long interview to hear her story as a caretaker for her son and how the Biden-Harris administration forgot about her family.

Watch the full interview by clicking here. 

On Aug. 26, 2021, Vargas-Andrews was hit with more than 100 steel ball bearings, leaving him catastrophically injured. His stomach was ripped open, his left testicle exploded and his liver, bladder and spleen were lacerated and punctured. He eventually had his right arm and left leg amputated. Nearly 200 people were killed, including 13 American service members.

Forty-eight hours after learning her son had been bombed, Andrews found herself in Germany, leaving her three children and business behind to be with her dying son.

“I’ve just left my kids on the other side of the U.S. And I have an entire company where I’m taking care of 150 to 200 clients, 17 different employees, so 17 different families, and I’m a single mom, 100% with no other support to take care of my kids. I need to have a business to come back to,” Andrews told the Caller.

“I needed to know how I was going to still have a livelihood and come back, because I’m not leaving my son, who quite literally might die, and I needed to then come back to get my younger children and move them across the U.S. to stay with me. We were put in an apartment out there by the Yellow Ribbon fund, and that was incredibly grateful. But we didn’t have an income. You just cut the head of my company off. I was the highest biller. I was the one that managed everybody,” Andrews said, adding that while she was caring for Tyler she still had nearly $150,000 in monthly bills to pay on the west coast.

President Joe Biden and his wife Jill paid a visit to Vargas-Andrews his first week in Walter Reed. In anticipation of the president’s visit, Vargas-Andrews told his mom that he wanted to hold off all medication that day until the president came so he could be fully present.

“Tyler stopped all his medication because he wanted to be cognitive. He wanted to be present. He wanted to have a present conversation with the president, and so he stopped his medicine, and he asked the doctors to hold what they could,” Andrews said, noting that her son was in unbearable pain because of the double amputations and numerous surgeries he had undergone.

“It’s understandable as a professional, and given his nature of his position in society, that [Biden] would not necessarily be there on time. However, we waited for hours upon hours upon hours,” Andrews told the Caller. “What the president may not even know, is that that blown up marine sat there wanting to be able to have a decent conversation with him, and sat there all day without his pain meds after being catastrophically blown up.”

“Nobody said, ‘hey, maybe we need to give him more meds because he’s not going to be here for three hours… to help take the pain off.’ Nobody cared. Nobody. So there, my son sat for hours upon hours until the president did finally get there,” Andrews continued.

Though President Biden never visited or reached out to Vargas-Andrews or his mother again after that meeting, the first lady paid another visit to the wounded soldier in the middle of September 2021. At the time, she asked Andrews how she could help her. But just a few weeks after her son was bombed and was still in ICU, Andrews told the Caller she was still in a state of crisis and not prepared to answer the question.

Eventually, after being able to sort out where she needed help, Andrews expressed interest in creating legislation for caretakers of wounded soldiers that would allow them to receive funding from the government. After reaching out to Jill Biden’s office about it, the first lady called Andrews personally to discuss.

“I remember her saying, that’s how people actually make change in legislation that happens. It happens from somebody with life experience happen to them and they become very passionate and just kind of keep pushing. And we had a discussion about that,” Andrews said in an earlier phone call with the Caller. “She had said that she was going to connect me with her senior military advisor and with somebody legislatively.”

Soon, Rory Brosius, executive director of Joining Forces, reached out to Andrews. Then-Vice President Joe Biden teamed up with first lady Michelle Obama in 2011 to create Joining Forces, an initiative aimed at supporting “military and veteran families, caregivers and survivors.”

Over the span of a few months, Andrews told the Caller that she communicated with Brosius through text and a long phone call about her where she saw gaps in current legislation for caregivers in situations such as her own.

“We had a very lengthy phone call where I took some notes, and I still have those notes. And I went over all of this with her, and she had shared with me at that time that she had been involved in the prior caregiver legislation, and [that] she was involved in writing it, she said, ‘you’re right.’ She goes ‘we never contemplated a business owner being a caregiver, or somebody in your unique shoes,’” Andrews told the Caller.

“I appreciated the acknowledgement, and I was hopeful. And I was hopeful that maybe I’d been funneled in a direction with somebody that might be able to help,” she continued, adding that she had told her the country needed something equivalent to the PPP loans handed out during the coronavirus pandemic to small businesses.

After corresponding several times in the beginning of 2022, Andrews told the Caller she and Brosius met for dinner in Maryland on Aug. 5, 2022, to discuss how to push legislation for caregivers forward.

A few weeks later, one day before the first anniversary of the Abbey Gate terrorist attack, Andrews followed up the dinner conversation with a text. She had some more ideas on how to help people in her situation.

“How would I approach the President or First lady about possibly considering my student loan debt as a way to offset some of the fiscal injury my two minor kids and myself have suffered due to my relocation for 10 months to care for Sgt. Vargas Andrews?” a text from Andrews to Brosius, reviewed by the Caller, read. Andrews recalled that she had just seen news reports about the Biden administration’s widespread student loan forgiveness program, which she herself wasn’t eligible for, spawning the idea.

“How can I get caregiver legislation to consider modifying legislation for business owners and single parents – or who can I contact to assist me in making it better for future wounded warrior families in similarly situated shoes? I want caregiver legislation to look at this issue, I want to help those into the future. I will not be the first. am probably not the first and definitely won’t be the last,” the text continued before asking Brosius for her ideas and feedback.

Brosius marked the text read and Andrews said she never received any answer.

The First Lady’s office responded to Andrews’ story in a statement to the Caller, adding that in 2023 the president had signed an executive order to help military families, spouses and caregivers.

“There was engagement between our office and Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews’ family,” Vanessa Valdivia, a press secretary in the First Lady’s Office, told the Caller.  “Joining Forces is informed by the lived experiences of military families, and brings their stories to policymakers at the White House and across the Administration.  The experiences of military and veteran caregivers and their families informed President Biden’s executive order on increasing access to high-quality care and supporting caregivers for families.”

“The President’s executive order specifically directed actions to expand options for veterans with disabilities, and better support military and veteran caregiving families,” she continued.

Biden’s executive order primarily focused on expanding the availability and quality of child care and long-term care services via a series of executive branch programs. It did briefly touch on VA benefits for family caregivers for wounded troops, such as situations like the one that happened to Andrews: ” the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall consider issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking by the end of this fiscal year that would make any appropriate modifications to eligibility criteria for the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers, which provides services and benefits, including a monthly stipend, for eligible caregivers of veterans who sustained a serious injury or illness in the line of duty.”

“The Biden administration just blew [my mom off when she reached out]. They just wrote her off. They didn’t care,” Vargas-Andrews told the Caller. “At the end of the day, they didn’t care. It’s disappointing, honestly, it’s very disappointing.”

Andrews told the Caller she never received any financial support from the Biden administration. Her children did receive a counselor provided by the regiment commander at Walter Reed in 2021. Andrews added that she was compensated for some travel and meals when she was visiting her son as he was healing from his injuries. While meeting with Brosius, Andrews told the Caller she was told she would reach out to the Dole Foundation to see if they could help provide for her in her situation. In Andrews’ last text to Brosius that she said went unanswered, she asked if such communication had been successful.

The White House cannot provide individual financial assistance, but can recommend resources within the federal government and through outside organizations, a White House official told the Caller.

But when it came to funds, taking care of her business and bills, non-profits Yellow Ribbon Fund and Semper Fi America’s Fund stepped in place of the government to support Andrews. In large part, funds raised in a GoFundMe for Tyler have helped keep Andrews and her family on their feet.

“Tell you what, that’s the hardest thing as a parent, is to accept help from your kid that is so catastrophically injured, and that’s the person that wants to help you. I remember him looking at me and him saying, ‘This didn’t just happen to me. It happened to our whole family, mom. And as a thank you to him, I will spend every day putting that money back because he shouldn’t have to. He’s given enough,” Andrews told the Caller.

Andrews is still interested in pushing legislation, both on caregiving and regarding child abuse cases – an area she has advocated for due to her professional experience.

“Somebody can benefit from my story. Different ways, different people can benefit. But I’m going to spend the next 45 years, God willing, that I’m here, 45 years doing the things that I’m setting out to do. I probably, I’ll land some, I may not land them all,” she added.

“I’ve learned as a leader that sometimes you have to navigate your direction. It will probably change at different points, but I have a list right now, and every day I work a little bit on that list, and I look forward to seeing where some of this goes,” Andrews finished.

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to accurately reflect which Biden administration executive order the first lady’s office referred the Caller to. 

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Reagan Reese

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Blood Is On Their Hands’: Abbey Gate Survivor Describes Coming Face To Face With Joe Biden

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President Joe Biden, alongside his wife Jill Biden, entered the hospital room of wounded Marine Sergeant Tyler Vargas-Andrews. They had flowers with them. After shaking hands with Tyler’s mother, Biden began talking about losing his son Beau and his time in the service.

The president, Vargas-Andrews said, made no mention of the Afghanistan withdrawal in which he had nearly lost his life. It was unclear if his Commander-in-Chief was directly addressing him at all.

“[Then] Joe comes over to me, and he leans over, and he just sticks out his right hand, and my left arm is wrapped up in the cast. My right arm is not there, and I’m just looking at him. And he doesn’t even say anything. I’m just like, ‘I don’t have an arm,’” Vargas-Andrews said.

Without saying anything, Biden walked over to a few of Vargas-Andrews’ fingers sticking out from his cast and held onto them.

She falsely added that there are no more American soldiers in active combat zones.

Harris didn’t acknowledge other consequences of her decision to back Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. In the Kabul attack, many were wounded; some lost limbs. 13 American service members were killed.

Vargas-Andrews was one of those wounded. As a result of the Biden-Harris withdrawal, he was left without a right arm or a left leg. His stomach was ripped open, his left testicle exploded and his liver, bladder and spleen were lacerated and punctured.

“It’s just, I mean, it’s disgraceful,” Vargas-Andrews said of Harris’s debate response.

“I’m sure she did support it, as she said she was the last one out of the room,” he continued. “And, it’s the same with John Kirby saying he didn’t see any chaos from his perch when everything was happening. And recently came out saying that he wasn’t going to answer to a handful of veterans for the war in Afghanistan when this evacuation affected the entirety of the global war on terror, veterans and their families, and every single Gold Star family and everyone who lost limbs and everyone who was wounded and had friends die.”

“And it’s like, what was it for? What did they go and sacrifice over there for? It’s just dishonoring to everyone that served,” Vargas-Andrews added.

On Aug. 26, 2021, as the Biden-Harris administration was hastily leaving Afghanistan, about 45 Americans were hit in the attack. Vargas-Andrews was hit with more than 100 steel ball bearings. Nearly 200 people were killed.

Over the span of several months, Vargas-Andrews underwent 49 surgeries at Walter Reed Hospital. During his recovery time, he was fighting for his life.

“[In Germany] they brought my mom in and said goodbye. Resuscitated me both times, two or three. And then I got to Walter Reed, woke me up,” he said. “And over the course of a few days, I was like, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ and all I can do is move my head, and my arm is in this giant big foam block. And, obviously I don’t have [my right arm]. And I’m all opened up, tubes everywhere and stuff, and, ‘I can’t breathe.’”

“And they’re like, oh, ‘your pulse is fine. your blood’s oxygenated,’ and I’m like, ‘I can’t breathe.’ And then I just blacked out. Double pulmonary embolism.”

Vargas-Andrews said he had briefly died, adding that he needed to be resuscitated several more times after he had blacked out.

Finally, four months after the attack, two of which were spent in the ICU, Vargas-Andrews was cleared to leave the hospital as a double amputee.

The Biden-Harris administration has long been scrutinized for how it withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. The Gold Star parents have repeatedly criticized the president for the operation and failing to properly recognize their fallen children. Still, Biden reportedly told his aides that he stood by his team, and nobody was fired in the aftermath.

White House national security council spokesman John Kirby later said in April 2023 that Biden was “proud” of how the administration conducted its operation. Harris has repeatedly bragged about being the last one in the room when Biden made the decision to pull out.

The Biden-Harris administration released an internal review of its withdrawal in April 2023, blaming the chaos on former President Donald Trump because he had ordered communication with the Taliban, negotiated a withdrawal date and failed to leave the Biden administration a comprehensive plan on how the operation should be carried out.

“Everyone likes to say, ‘oh, well, Trump’s the one that met with the Taliban … he shook their hands and negotiated.’ Well, when people say that, they don’t like to bring up or look at the fact that there was the Doha Agreement and this long list of how we were going to pull out of Afghanistan, what the Taliban had to abide by, not killing, not raping, leaving women’s rights in place, not harassing us, all this stuff, how, where we were going to exit out of, and all that was thrown out the window,” Vargas-Andrews said.

On the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate attack, the tension came to a head.

Trump, at the invitation of the Gold Star families, attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. While he laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, Vargas-Andrews stood with the former president.

Trump, the Gold Star families and Vargas-Andrews then moved to Section 60 where the fallen soldiers laid. While visiting the graves of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover and Sgt. Nicole Gee, the former president snapped a photo and some videos with the families.

“I met former President Trump, we met him up at the tomb of the unknown soldier first. And he came in very somber, but friendly, and took the time to talk with anyone that wanted to talk to him, and the Secret Service wasn’t crowded around him or anything like that,” Vargas-Andrews said.

From there, the press made a fuss over an NPR report that an altercation occurred between a campaign official and an Arlington Cemetery official over photograph restrictions in Section 60. The Trump team denied the story and a source familiar with the event conversations previously told the Daily Caller that the Gold Star families had approved a campaign photographer to take photos of the ceremony.

“And at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, ultimately, those families wanted him there. They wanted his team there. They wanted him to be a part of that ceremony, because he’s the only one in the top of our nation’s government that’s showing them the love and care,” Vargas-Andrews told the Caller, adding that the Gold Star families had wanted Trump to take photos of the event.

Amid the controversy, Harris decided to weigh in. Via tweet, the vice president slammed Trump for filming videos while honoring the fallen soldiers. She wrote that, in her words, unlike the former president, “will always honor the service and sacrifice of all of America’s fallen heroes.”

Eight Gold Star families rebuked Harris’s comments, calling her out for never reaching out and ignoring requests to meet.

“It’s a joke that Kamala Harris is going to go on and say anything they can to shut down these families,” Vargas-Andrews said.

“That’s what it is at the end of the day, when you’re doing that, you’re shutting down these families, you’re shutting down the 13 Americans that were murdered on your watch, the 13 Americans that were murdered under the Biden administration, all of the active duty troops that are still in combat zones all over the world that she said aren’t,” he added.

Vargas-Andrews, who has never been approached by Harris or her office, told the Caller that he believes the vice president hasn’t reached out to the families because it would be admitting “that blood is on their hands.”

“She and the current administration are scared of the truth coming to light and having to face the consequences of their own actions and answer for those murdered Americans,” Vargas-Andrews told the Caller.

“If she acknowledges it, either of them took the time to say the names of the 13 Americans that were killed in action that day, that they still haven’t ever said, it would be recognizing their mistakes,” he continued.

While Harris has never reached out to Vargas-Andrews, Biden and his wife only spoke to him once, when he was recovering in Walter Reed.

Vargas-Andrews explained to the Caller that not long after arriving at Walter Reed, the second day he was awake, he was told the president wanted to visit him. Excited, Vargas-Andrews told the nurses to hold all his medication until the president arrived so he could be fully alert for the visit, which was expected to take place within an hour and a half.

But five hours later, the president was yet to show up.

Eventually a secret service agent entered the hospital room, prepping Vargas-Andrews, his mom Tiffany Andrews, and his best friend for the visit. It was in that moment Vargas-Andrews realized that because of the trauma he had endured, he had forgotten who the president was.

“I didn’t think it was Biden. I just was like, oh, man, the president,” he said. “That’s fucking cool. And, didn’t, you know, process in my brain. I couldn’t even, like, make the connection in my brain, good old TBI, I guess. But, I’m like, oh my God, I have no idea who the president is,” he recounted to the Caller.

Before concluding the visit, the president and the first lady took a photo with Vargas-Andrews and his mom. Biden left with some final remarks.

“They snapped a photo, and then, he leans over me, and he’s this close to my face and is like, ‘what do you want?’ I was like, and ‘what?’”

“He was like, ‘what do you want?’ ‘I just want to be me.’ That’s all I said. And he’s like ‘huh?’ and my mom says ‘he said he just wants to be himself.’ And he goes, ‘oh,’ stands up [with a] distant stare, stands up, doesn’t say anything, and Secret Service just rushes him out of the room,” Vargas-Andrews said.

After Vargas-Andrews was wounded, his mom dropped everything to be by her son’s side. She never received any financial support from the Biden administration. Instead several non-profits, including Yellow Ribbon Fund and Semper Fi America’s Fund, stepped in to support Andrews.

Abandoned by the Biden administration, Andrews works with Semper Fi America’s Fund and has connected with members of Congress to help push legislation aimed at supporting caretakers, Vargas-Andrews told the Caller.

The Biden-Harris administration’s lack of support hasn’t set Vargas-Andrews back. The double amputee has become open water diver scuba certified, started skydiving again and is going for his skydiving license. He’s working on getting his flight hours in so he can earn his sports pilot’s license. He’s also teamed up with other veterans to start a business, Flatline HardGoods, that sells t-shirts and hats donning Vargas-Andrews’ motto, “never a victim.”

He told the Caller he is the same man he was before the attack.

When Harris stood up on that debate stage, she may have whitewashed the results of her administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal, but for Vargas-Andrews and the Gold Star families, it’s something they can’t ignore.

“You need to answer for what you’ve done, for what everyone’s done, hold yourself accountable,” Vargas-Andrews said, on what message he would give Harris if she ever reached out.

“You need to hold everyone in our nation and our military that’s accountable,” he continued. “I am very doubtful, you know, not doubtful. I know that they’ll never do that. But, it’s the right thing to do … It’s really as simple as that. Those who are at fault need to answer for what they’ve done.”

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Reagan Reese

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Harris Attempt To Attack Trump’s Arlington Visit Backfires Horribly When Gold Star Families Respond

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Gold Star families spoke out against Vice President Kamala Harris after she weighed in on the controversy surrounding former President Donald Trump’s visit to Arlington Cemetery to honor the 13 soldiers killed in the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal.

Harris posted a tweet Saturday slamming Trump for filming videos while honoring the fallen soldiers, adding that she, unlike the former president, “will always honor the service and sacrifice of all of America’s fallen heroes.” Eight Gold Star families took to Twitter to rebuke Harris’s comments, explaining that they invited Trump to the cemetery for the ceremony and have never heard from the vice president in the three years since they lost their children in the August 2021 terrorist attack in Kabul.

“This is Mark Schmitz, gold star father of Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz. Here we are in a beautiful holiday weekend day, I got to stop what I’m doing, spending time with what’s left of my family, to address a heinous, vile and disgusting post put out by Kamala Harris trying to incite those that don’t follow the truth that President Trump was in Arlington as a political stunt – shows you how much you know about the 13 families, we invited him to be there,” Schmitz said in a video, posted by Trump on Twitter in a reply to Harris’ tweet.

“Groundwork was put into place by Congressman Issa’s office to make sure we followed protocol. Why did we want Trump there? It wasn’t to help his political campaign. We wanted a leader — that explains why you and Joe didn’t get a call. Imagine for a second that your kid is killed. There’s a president in the United States willing to take you under his wing and listen to you. That’s what we found in President Trump, certainly not you, and certainly not Joe Biden,” Schmitz continues in the nearly three minute video continues.

“You have 13 families who have been waiting over three years to so much as get a phone call, to so much as hear our kids names said aloud in the halls of Congress, the State of the Union, hell, anything. The irony behind your post, that you give a rat’s ass about our military or our veterans, Jared’s brothers and sisters in arms, the rest of the 12, their brothers and sisters in arms, is an outright lie. We’re living proof of that. You’re despicable. You have zero business running this country. And I pray to God Americans wake the hell up. and get your ass out of office. You have spit in our face for the last fucking time,” he finishes.

Trump’s trip to Arlington National Cemetery came under fire after NPR reported that there was a physical altercation between a campaign official and an Arlington National Cemetery staffer over photograph restrictions in Section 60, where fallen soldiers of recent American wars lay. The Trump team denied the story and a source familiar with the event conversations told the Daily Caller that the Gold Star families were okay with a campaign photographer taking photos of the ceremony.

Ahead of the ceremony, a Gold Star family told the Caller that Arlington National Cemetery was trying to put restrictions in place to block Trump’s visit — despite it being the families’ request. The situation escalated, causing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to intervene to help Trump be able to participate in the ceremony, a Gold Star family told the Caller.

Neither Biden nor Harris participated in a public event to honor the 13 fallen soldiers killed during their administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal. Rather, they issued statements the morning of the anniversary while Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery.

“It is not a place for politics. And yet, as was reported this week, Donald Trump’s team chose to film a video there, resulting in an altercation with cemetery staff. Let me be clear: the former president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt. This is nothing new from Donald Trump. This is a man who has called our fallen service members ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients,” Harris tweeted on Saturday about the NPR report.

Darin Hoover, the father of the late Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, Coral Doolittle, the mother of the late Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez, Jaclyn Schmitz, the mother of the late Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, Steve Nikoui, the father of the late Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nikoui, Jim McCollum, the father of the late Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum, Herman Lopez, the father of the late Corporal Hunter Lopez, Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of the late Sergeant Nicole Gee and Schmitz all filmed videos in response to Harris, which were posted to Twitter by Trump.

“Vice President Harris, my name is Christy Shamblin. My daughter in law, Sergeant Nicole Leanne Gee, was killed in the Afghanistan exit at Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021. This year, for the third year anniversary of her murder, we welcomed President Donald J. Trump to Arlington to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with our family and to visit the cold graveside. President Trump and his team were respectful. They listened to our stories and didn’t talk much at all. We welcomed them that day, and they were a comfort to our family,” Shamblin said in the first video of the series posted to Twitter.

“Vice President Harris, I ask you, why won’t you return a call and explain to us how you call my daughter-in-law’s death a success? Vice President Harris, why will you not express your condolences yourself. Why have we never heard from you? And finally, why would you take a day where we celebrated the death of our loved one and use it to disparage not only them but us? President Trump has called. President Trump shows up. President Trump takes the time to hear our loved one’s stories. Why won’t you do the same, vice president?” she finished.

The Biden administration later reviewed its Afghanistan withdrawal in April 2023. The internal report wrote that Trump was to blame for the botched withdrawal because he had previously negotiated with the Taliban, agreed on a withdrawal date and failed to leave the Biden administration a comprehensive plan on how the operation should be carried out.

Harris has previously said she was the “last person in the room” with Biden when he decided to pull troops and American citizens out of the country. And amid all the backlash, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in April 2023 that the president was “proud” of its operation.

“Vice President Harris, my name is Jim McCollum. I am the Gold Star father of United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Riley McCollum, killed in Afghanistan August 26, 2021. Your recent remarks related to Trump’s visit to Arlington are filled with nothing but lies and deceit. How do you sleep at night knowing it was you, this administration, you and Biden, you being the last one in the room are responsible for the death of our 13 kids. You failed for three years and eight months to acknowledge our kids, but to acknowledge me. You don’t know me. You’ve never spoken to me. You’ve never reached out to me,” McCollum said in a video.

“You have failed in your duties as vice president. You have been nothing but disrespectful to me and the families of the 13. Yet you’re claiming that you will always be respectful and show respect for our fallen, you’ve been absent for three years and eight months. You’ve proven that you’re not capable to do the job that you have, let alone the job that you seek,” he continued.

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Reagan Reese

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Women Have Been Banned From Speaking in Afghanistan Because of Kamala

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“Harris proudly told the media about the key role she played in the decision to abandon Afghanistan.”

The DNC convention and its aftermath were accompanied by the usual establishment ‘girl power’ posturing in which the elevation of political and corporate players who happen to be women (whatever those are anyway) is treated as an accomplishment for all women. Or as Hillary Clinton put it, the hardest glass ceiling

While the DNC was wrapping up its faux feminist coronation of Kamala, the Taliban had wrapped their celebration of the defeat of America and the Afghanistan government with a parade of military hardware stolen from us which was then capped with a proclamation banning women from speaking in public.

Or looking a man in the eye.

Taliban leaders in Afghanistan have ordered fresh limitations on women, forbidding them from singing, reciting poetry or speaking aloud in public and mandating them to keep their faces and bodies covered at all times.

Women also are not allowed to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa.

Another article prohibits playing music in public transport, the travel of female passengers unless accompanied by a male guardian, and the mingling of unrelated men and women.

This is the difference between actual feminism and a farce that reduces feminism to abortion.

When Kamala first ran for president, she claimed that she would protect gains for Afghan women and girls. Instead, she was the ‘last person in the room’ on Biden’s disastrous withdrawal policy that led to the collapse of Afghanistan.

In the run-up to the last days of chaos, Harris proudly told the media about the “key role” she played in the decision to abandon Afghanistan. At the time, she praised Biden’s retreat policy as “courageous” and “the right thing to do.” Just this week, an aide to Harris told the Washington Post that she “strongly supported President Biden’s decision to end America’s longest war.”

There’s no conversation about that, but maybe there ought to be. As the establishment tries to turn Kamala’s candidacy into a feminist statement, her actions led to women in Afghanistan being unable to leave their houses without a man, show their faces or speak in public.

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Trump Had a Plan for Afghanistan. Biden-Harris ‘Blew It Up’: Congressman

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As the Taliban paraded captured U.S. military equipment through the streets of its capital city on the third anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a congressman had a horrifying revelation. “I saw some of the vehicles that were built in my district being paraded across that field today,” Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) told “Washington Watch” last Thursday.

Although most Americans supported the cessation of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, the Biden-Harris administration’s execution resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. soldiers during a suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul and left an unknown number of American civilians stranded behind enemy lines.

The Biden-Harris administration responded by saying it had executed a plan originally negotiated by President Donald Trump — but that’s a half-truth, Walberg, a former pastor, told his former congressional colleague Jody Hice, who guest hosted the program. “President Trump had planned for it, had negotiated the means by which the Taliban would respect our withdrawal,” including a provision “that we would keep forces there, that we would hold the airfield and that we would have eyes on the ground still in that region.”

“That all changed with the election of the present president, who immediately after being sworn into office, showed a weakness and it blew up full tilt during the Afghan withdrawal,” Walberg explained.

Kamala Harris praised President Joe Biden’s reaction to the military deaths at the time, saying he had “shown great emotion in expressing sadness about some of the images we have seen.” Although President Biden attended the dignified transfer of the troops, cameras caught him looking at his watch. The White House spin room later claimed Biden was glancing at a rosary he wears on his wrist.

As Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris seeks to reinvent herself, she will not be able to distance herself from that debacle. Harris publicly stated she was “the last person in the room” with Joe Biden when he formulated his disastrous withdrawal plans. “She was part of all the major decisions, they say. And there she was supporting this decision,” said Hice, who served as a congressman from Georgia.

The Biden-Harris administration has further decimated the U.S. military by instituting woke policies that saw branches of service repeatedly miss their recruitment goals, even after those goals were lowered.

“Kamala Harris, whom the media were deriding just three weeks ago, is beginning this honeymoon with the potential of becoming commander-in-chief of a weakened force — not because of our troops, but because of their leadership,” said Walberg. “What that says to Hamas is, why should they negotiate? What that says to Iran is, why should they stop their nuclear development?”

“We are the ‘big Satan’ in the eyes of the radical Muslims. And that begins with Iran, who indeed will foster what goes on with the Taliban and others against the United States,” he said.

Walberg said the final shape of U.S. policies, foreign or domestic, may have little to do with either Biden or Harris, implying it would endure throughout Democratic administrations. “I don’t believe that she or President Joe Biden were running this country or have been running this country. There’s a cabal behind them with an initiative to change this country from the inside out. And that also responds to the whole globalist desire.”

Walberg said plans to submerge the United States into a global order, erasing centuries of American exceptionalism, “will not work” and will not maintain global stability. “America has to be there at the top of the heap. We’re the only nation that has the power and the potential and the moral clarity — if we use it to define what takes place in the world.”

America must jettison its policy of seeking to “build nations, but rather demonstrate what a true constitutional democracy and freedom is all about,” he insisted.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

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‘It’s Bullsh*t’: Marine At Center Of New Afghanistan Probe Accuses Pentagon Of Covering Up Evidence

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A Marine at the center of a supplemental probe into the deadly suicide bombing during the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan accused the Pentagon of concealing information showing it could have been prevented.

Former Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews caused a stir after he testified in March 2023 that he had sights on an individual he and others on the ground believed to be the suicide bomber while in the guard tower next to Abbey Gate, but was denied permission to engage. After CENTCOM opened up a new probe into the incident to address his allegations and found nothing to corroborate them, the former sniper told the Daily Caller News Foundation he agreed the bomber suspect at the time was a “separate individual” from the man the Pentagon just identified as the perpetrator but stood by his testimony.

“That is the truth. For anyone to say that this wasn’t preventable when we had on the ground intel passed to us stating the threat, it’s bullshit. We were told that the bomber was headed to Abbey Gate in real time, we all knew that,” he told the DCNF.

“I believe that a lot has been covered up,” he added.

Vargas-Andrews lost two of his limbs in the bombing, which took the lives of 13 U.S. service members and killed and wounded dozens of Afghan civilians.

Marines stationed in and around the watchtower near Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate may have confused formal intelligence with “spot reports” made by service members in real time that had not been vetted, the secondary review found, according to The Washington Post.

“Over the past two years, some service members have claimed that they had the bomber in their sights, and they could have prevented the attack,” a U.S. official on the supplemental review team said on Friday, according to CNN. “But we now know that is not correct.”

While Vargas-Andrews disputed the finding, he did not dispute that the person Marines at the time believed to be the prime threat was not the eventual bomber, he told the Post.

The first investigation completed in November 2021 concluded a lone suicide bomber managed to bypass Taliban checkpoints but contained nothing to suggest the perpetrator had been identified or that a request to shoot traveled up the chain of command, interview logs show.

Investigators, “although as thorough as they could be,” told Vargas-Andrews and his team during the course of the secondary probe that photos of the bomber, which were taken while the sniper team was tracking threats, could not be retrieved from any facility in the Pentagon or a U.S. intelligence agency.

“They stated they combed through everything high and low,” he told the DCNF. “So what happened to those hundreds of photos, which are potential intelligence? That is a failure.”

Many photos Vargas-Andrews’ sniper team collected, and photos taken by other units, vanished during the course of the chaotic evacuation in August 2021, a person familiar with the investigation told the Post. Those included two individuals the snipers requested to shoot.

One individual nicknamed the “man in black,” due to his black headscarf and shaved head, was thought to be the suicide bomber, CNN reported.

Vargas told the DCNF the photo of the suspect referenced in the report came from a cell phone and was taken from the display on his team’s camera

CENTCOM’s secondary report identified the bomber as Abdul Rahman Al-Logari, an Islamic State (ISIS) operative whom the Taliban had recently released from prison, according to CNN. Cross-comparison of the figures in each photo — CENTCOM obtained al-Logari’s prison mugshot — “received the strongest negative possible rating” they depicted the same person, officials said.

Vargas-Andrews maintained he still had an opportunity to engage the bomber.

“I will stand by my testimony and what we experienced till the day I die,” Vargas-Andrews told the DCNF.

CENTCOM did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

AUTHOR

MICAELA BURROW

Investigative reporter, defense.

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General: Afghanistan Withdrawal Enhanced New Terror Threat to America

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Resurgent Islamist terrorism poses a threat to the U.S. homeland, experts warned after a deadly attack in Moscow. “The deadly attack … has raised concerns that the terrorist group could potentially move to carrying out attacks in Europe and even here in the United States,” Family Research Council Action President Jody Hice summarized on “Washington Watch” Monday.

On March 22, terrorists armed with rifles, pistols, and knives opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow and lit fires that caused the roof to collapse, killing more than 100 concertgoers and injuring more than 500. Russian authorities have charged four men from Tajikistan with terrorism in the attack, for which the Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) has taken credit.

General Erik Kurilla, commander of U.S. Central Command, recently warned that ISIS-K “retains the capability and the will to attack U.S. and Western interests abroad in as little as six months with little to no warning.”

ISIS-K’s Rapid Expansion

ISIS-K “morphed from a series of radical groups that were in eastern Syria [and] northern Iraq years ago, during the Obama administration,” Lt. Col. (Ret.) Robert Maginnis explained on “Washington Watch” Monday. During the Trump administration, a U.S.-led coalition dismantled the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but not before its radical jihadis “spread elsewhere in the Middle East all the way to Afghanistan,” said Maginnis. Additionally, “they have tentacles not only in Central Asia, but all the way to northern and central Africa.”

The ISIS offshoot is “as radical an Islamic group as we’ve ever seen,” Maginnis described, to the point that they target other Islamists for their alleged compromises. Not only is ISIS-K “in contest with al-Qaeda and the Taliban,” as Maginnis said, but they have also attacked neighboring Muslim countries. In 2023, ISIS-K killed more than 60 people by bombing a political rally in Pakistan, and two ISIS-K suicide bombers killed 90 and injured more than 200 Iranians in January.

“They’ve got tentacles located in places like Tajikistan to the north … where the four suspects that were involved in the Moscow attack on the 22nd of March came from,” Maginnis continued. “One of the reasons I suspect they went after the Muscovites was because of the Chechnya battle that claimed tens of thousands of Muslim lives in 1990, but also because of the history of the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.”

ISIS-K’s Deadly Tactics

From suicide bombings and assassinations directed primarily at the Taliban, ISIS-K “has grown more ambitious and aggressive,” according to Clemson University professor Amira Jadoon, launching an international, “multilingual propaganda campaign and expanding the types of attacks it conducts.” The Moscow terror attack is among ISIS-K’s deadliest and most hazardous operations to date.

“They’re a very vicious group of people, very radicalized with their radical version of Islamic faith,” Maginnis noted. “They’ve always had, like al-Qaeda, an interest in using weapons of mass destruction (WMD): chemical, biological, radiological instruments. … These things are very, very serious.”

Maginnis added that ISIS-K “would do everything they can to come to this country.” Even if they couldn’t bring a WMD to the U.S., he suggested they might “attack a nuclear facility, or they would let off some sort of bomb near a chemical site that would have a mass casualty impact.”

U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Terror attacks perpetrated by ISIS-K have already resulted in the deaths of American citizens. This group was responsible for the 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, which resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers, among nearly 200 casualties. That terror attack occurred amid the chaos of America’s precipitous withdrawal from the country.

In fact, Maginnis said the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan is one reason why ISIS-K has expanded its reach. “With our departure, they had not only more equipment that the Taliban didn’t claim, but also more freedom of navigation,” he said.

General Frank McKenzie, former head of U.S. Central Command, offered a substantially similar analysis Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “The threat is growing. It began to grow as soon as we left Afghanistan and took pressure off ISIS-K,” he warned. “We should expect further attempts of this nature against the United States as well as our partners and other nations abroad.”

U.S. Vulnerability to Attack

To Maginnis, this expectation of a radical Islamist terror attack heightens the urgency of securing the southern border. “With the open southern border, we’ve had many, many people that have crossed over that don’t have our best interests in mind,” he said. Even more concerning, many illegal border crossers evaded capture, leaving U.S. authorities “totally clueless on who they are, what their intentions are,” Hice added. “You would think those who sneak in … [are] probably here for nefarious reasons.”

ISIS-K “has a strong desire to attack our homeland. We should believe them when they say that they’re going to try to do it,” McKenzie declared. Maginnis agreed. “They would like to attack the ‘Great Satan,’ the United States, and will do everything possible to do that.”

Maginnis predicted that “there will be an effort by ISIS-K, which likely already has a number of its terrorists deeply embedded in the United States.” These terrorists “would like to use any mechanism of terror that they could,” he concluded. “There’s no doubt we’re vulnerable.”

AUTHOR

Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Afghanistan: Taliban’s Supreme Leader says ‘We will flog women in public, we will stone them to death in public’

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Stoning adulterers is not “extremist”; it is Islamic law. The caliph Umar, one of Muhammad’s closest companions, supposedly even maintained that it was originally in the Qur’an:

‘Umar said, “I am afraid that after a long time has passed, people may say, “We do not find the Verses of the Rajam (stoning to death) in the Holy Book,” and consequently they may go astray by leaving an obligation that Allah has revealed. Lo! I confirm that the penalty of Rajam be inflicted on him who commits illegal sexual intercourse, if he is already married and the crime is proved by witnesses or pregnancy or confession.” Sufyan added, “I have memorized this narration in this way.” ‘Umar added, “Surely Allah’s Apostle carried out the penalty of Rajam, and so did we after him.” (Bukhari, vol. 8, bk. 82, no. 816)

“Allah’s Apostle” is, of course, Muhammad, who according to canonical ahadith did indeed carry out stonings. Here is the hadith in which he challenges the rabbis about stoning, and in which there is amidst the barbarism and brutality a final act of love and compassion:

The Jews came to Allah’s Apostle and told him that a man and a woman from amongst them had committed illegal sexual intercourse. Allah’s Apostle said to them, “What do you find in the Torah (old Testament) about the legal punishment of Ar-Rajm (stoning)?” They replied, (But) we announce their crime and lash them.” Abdullah bin Salam said, “You are telling a lie; Torah contains the order of Rajm.” They brought and opened the Torah and one of them solaced his hand on the Verse of Rajm and read the verses preceding and following it. Abdullah bin Salam said to him, “Lift your hand.” When he lifted his hand, the Verse of Rajm was written there. They said, “Muhammad has told the truth; the Torah has the Verse of Rajm. The Prophet then gave the order that both of them should be stoned to death. (‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar said, “I saw the man leaning over the woman to shelter her from the stones.” (Bukhari, vol. 4, bk. 56, no. 829)

Even the monkeys practiced stoning, according to another hadith:

During the pre-lslamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them. (Bukhari, vol. 5, bk. 58, no. 188)

Muhammad’s example is, of course, normative for Islamic behavior: “Indeed in the messenger of Allah you have an excellent example for him who looks to Allah and the last day, and remembers Allah a great deal.” (Qur’an 33:21)

AUTHOR

ROBERT SPENCER

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Biden-Equipped Taliban Ask Iran for Passage to Israel to Join The Jihad War Against Israel

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So not only is Biden’s billions to Iran funding this genocidal war, but Biden’s unimaginable militaria left to the Taliban. Billions of dollars in operational US military equipment left behind by the Biden mis-administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Biden gave them enough militaria to arm and aid a world army.

Taliban has reportedly asked Iran for passage to Israel to help Hamas continue it’s terror against the Jewish state.

Remember how Team Biden got journos to run interference for them and downplay what a catastrophe this was?

“The Taliban won’t be able to use them.” “Where are they going to get spare parts?” “They already had some of these anyway.”

‘Biden” gave them enough militaria to arm and aid a world army. And now family members of suicide bombers who killed Americans will be rewarded with plots of land and cash payments by the new Taliban government in Afghanistan, group leaders announced.

Taliban ‘vows to conquer Jerusalem if Iran, Iraq and Jordan allow passage to Israel’

Hamas terrorists launched a deadly attack on Israel earlier today as at least 198 Palestinians have been killed after Israeli forces retaliated.

By Charles Harrison, The Express, Oct 7, 2023

Taliban supporters parading for the second anniversary of their return to power (Image: Getty)

The Taliban has reportedly asked Iran, Iraq and Jordan to grant them passage to Israel so that they can “conquer Jerusalem”.

Hamas terrorists launched a surprise assault on Israel today, launching thousands of missiles into the country and crossing the border with armed militants.

Israel has retaliated with a series of airstrikes that have killed just under 200 Palestinians, according to latest estimates.

A statement widely circulated online suggests Taliban’s foreign office has contacted Middle Eastern governments requesting passage, seemingly to aid Hamas terrorists and promising to take control of Jerusalem.

Read more.

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Pamela Geller

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