Joe Biden insulted the honorable dead and their families in Afghanistan and Syria during a debate with President Trump in Atlanta on Thursday night, bizarrely claiming that no troops have died “anywhere in the world” during his presidency.
In August 2021, 13 U.S. troops were killed in a terrorist attack at Kabul Airport during Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan.
Biden said during the debate, “We are the idea of this safe nation. In fact, I am the only president this century who has not had any military killed anywhere in the world like him.
Biden said that he is “the only president in the 20th century who has not had any U.S. troops killed in action since he took office.”
Unable to comment on the 13 American service members who died during his horrific withdrawal from Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/zaFMvgetCO
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 28, 2024
Biden faced Steve Nicuy, the Gold Star father of Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps. Kareem M. Nikoui was killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack during the State of the Union address last March.
A man who heckled during the State of the Union address has been identified as the father of a fallen Marine. https://t.co/Ap15DS6Mr4 pic.twitter.com/CQOkRrVIs6
— News 4 San Antonio (@News4SA) March 8, 2024
Names of US troops killed in attack (via The Guardian):
Eleven U.S. Marines, a soldier and a sailor were killed in the war in Afghanistan in the country’s deadliest day in a decade.
The Marines are: Sergeant Darin T. Hoover, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Sergeant Johnny Rosario Pichardo, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts; Sergeant Nicole L Gee , 23, of Sacramento, Calif.; Corporal Hunter Lopez, 22, of Indio, Calif.; Corporal Daegan W. Page, 23, of Omaha, Neb.; Humberto A. Corporal Humberto A Sanchez, 22, from Logansport, Indiana; Sergeant David L Espinoza, 20, from Rio Bravo, Texas; Sergeant Jared M Schmitz, 20, from St. Charles, Missouri ; Sergeant Rylee J McCollum, 20, of Jackson, Wyoming; Lieutenant Dylan R Merola, 20, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; Sergeant Kareem M Nikoui, 20, of Norco, California.
The sailor who died was Naval Hospital Medical Officer Maxton W Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio.
The soldier is Sergeant Ryan C Knauss, 23, of Coryton, Tennessee.
From the Department of Defense statement regarding the deadly attack in Syria on January 28, 2024:
Yesterday, a military base near the Syrian border was attacked by an unmanned aerial system, killing three US soldiers in Jordan and injuring more than 40 others. The troops are in Jordan supporting Operation Resolve, the U.S. and coalition mission to ensure the defeat of the Islamic State.
The three soldiers killed were Sgt. William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, Georgia; specs. Kennedy Sanders of Waycross, Ga.; and Specs. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, Savannah, Georgia. All three are assigned to the 926th Engineer Brigade, 718th Engineer Company, 926th Engineer Battalion, Fort Moore, Georgia.
The attack occurred in the early morning at the logistics support base located in Tower 22 of the Jordanian Defense Network. Approximately 350 U.S. Army and Air Force personnel are deployed to the base. The three soldiers were killed when a unidirectional unmanned aerial system struck their container home.
Biden’s lies were so blatant that even USA Today fact-checked him:
Biden claimed that no U.S. troops were killed anywhere in the world during his presidency. That is not true.
Stay tuned for more live fact-checking from the presidential debates: https://t.co/AyRepXR9Hj pic.twitter.com/RBf1eMh1vy
—USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 28, 2024
