Former President Donald Trump attended a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday for the third anniversary of the suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed 13 U.S. service members during the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Neither President Joe Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris attended the event.
According to The Post Millennial, a video from Monday’s event at Arlington National Cemetery shows the former president placing a wreath on the grave of Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, who was killed in the deadly suicide bombing three years ago. Trump also spoke on the phone with Knauss’ family on Monday.
Conservative commentator Jack Posobiec shared another video of the former president attending Monday’s ceremony. He tweeted, “Kamala Harris and Joe Biden skip Arlington Memorial Ceremony for the 13 troopers who died in Afghanistan on the 3rd anniversary.”
“Only 1 former president showed up,” Posobiec added. “His name is Donald Trump.”
The Taliban recently celebrated the third anniversary of the regime’s rise to power in Afghanistan by holding a parade at Bagram Air Base with U.S. military vehicles that were abandoned during the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal under the Biden-Harris administration in 2021.
According to a statement obtained by The Post Millennial from the vice president’s team, Harris was in Washington, D.C., on Monday, where she was expected to “receive briefings and conduct internal meetings with staff.” The outlet noted that Biden and Harris did not attend the anniversary ceremony in remembrance of the U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan. Biden, who is currently on vacation in Deleware, reportedly had an out-of-town pool call scheduled at roughly the same time as the event in Arlington National Cemetery.
In a statement released on Monday by the White House, Harris defended the administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying, “As I have said, President Biden made the courageous and right decision to end America’s longest war.”
In a statement on Truth Social, Trump commemorated the third anniversary of the “BOTCHED” withdrawal from Afghanistan, which he described as “the most EMBARRASSING moment in the history of our Country.”
Trump wrote, “Gross Incompetence – 13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds of people wounded and dead, AMERICANS and BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT LEFT BEHIND. You don’t take our soldiers out first, you take them out LAST, when all else is successfully done.”
The former president added that the United States has become a “laughing stock all over the World” under the Biden-Harris administration and slammed mainstream media for remaining “SILENT IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE WORST ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.”
