Former President Donald Trump will meet with several Gold Star family members, according to reports.
Breitbart News has exclusively learned that Trump, along with Republican Florida Rep. Michael Waltz, will meet with the Gold Star family members who lost loved ones in President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021.
“I’ve been obviously dealing with Gold Star families and keeping in touch with them—I sadly have a lot of experience with Gold Star families from the Green Berets and others that have been lost over time,” Waltz said. “What has been so striking to me is obviously there is a level of grief there, to lose a child is just hard to imagine, but I’ve never in 20 years of dealing with the Gold Star community I’ve never come across a group that’s so angry.”
Family members of the 13 American servicemen and women killed in the horrific bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) two years ago will meet with Trump, making him the first presidential candidate to meet with the families of the victims.
“There is no bigger champion of America’s military members, and their families as well, than President Trump,” a Trump campaign official said. “Contrast that with Joe Biden’s total lack of respect for our military and his disastrous and embarrassing withdrawal in Afghanistan that led to the death of American troops, put additional lives at risk, and emboldened the enemy.”
The Florida congressman said that the reason why these families are even more upset than most Gold Star families is due to the fact that their children should not have passed away because of the U.S. government’s incompetence.
“The two kind of things that I think Biden ran on was compassion and competence and the way the withdrawal was done was clearly incompetent and their personal interactions with him have not been compassionate at all—in fact, it’s had the opposite effect,” Waltz said.
“So, yeah, you’re absolutely right—they know and I know their sons and daughters were put in impossible situations and were asked to do two conflicting missions: a combat withdrawal in the face of enemy forces where you’ve got to shut the gate down and bunker up, but also an evacuation where you’ve got to literally leave the gate open,” he continued.
