Did you know that there was a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery this week, for the 13 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan during our cataclysmically disastrous “withdrawal” (surrender is more like it) to the taliban in 2021?
Evidently President Biden, who “oversaw” the above-mentioned withdrawal, couldn’t have cared less. He was on his (seemingly) 8,347th vacation – this time in sunny California.
But Donald Trump was there.
Miranda Devine, in her latest commentary for the New York Post, titled “Callous Biden showed his true colors by tanning at the beach on the anniversary of his Afghanistan withdrawal horror”, describes the disparity between these two presidents in excellent detail. Here is roughly the first half of her commentary (but please use the link to read the rest as well):
Joe Biden was sunning himself at his Rehoboth Beach house and Kamala Harris was holed away with staff in Washington this week on the third anniversary of their disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
Only Donald Trump bothered to show up to the wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery for the Gold Star families of the 13 service members killed by a suicide bomber in the chaotic evacuation from Kabul.
For a man damned as an unfeeling monster by Democrats, Trump always manages to outshine Biden and Harris in the empathy stakes, whether he is meeting victims of a toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, visiting a bodega in crime-wracked Harlem or consoling the families of women and children murdered by illegal-migrant sexual predators.
At Arlington Monday where he was the guest of the Gold Star families that Biden and Harris have ignored and disrespected for three years, the images of the former president solemnly placing a wreath while a woman wept so enraged Democrats who feared it was a political masterstroke that they cooked up another hoax to discredit him.
Trump-hating outlet NPR alleged an ugly confrontation between his entourage and a cemetery staffer objecting to their camera.
But Trump’s campaign produced what appeared to be written permission to bring “an official photographer and/or videographer” to the ceremony.
In any case, the only people who matter are the families who invited him, and they issued a statement of “heartfelt thanks and appreciation” to Trump Wednesday.
“We are deeply grateful to the president for taking the time to honor our children and for standing alongside us in our grief,” they said.
They didn’t need to point out the conspicuous absence of Biden and Harris, who have never met with the families or even uttered the names of their loved ones.
In fact, in his disastrous debate with Trump in June, Biden forgot all about the 13 fallen and boasted — falsely — that he was the “only president this century” not to have troops die on his watch.
In separate statements from the White House this week, Biden again insisted the biggest debacle of his presidency was a “success” and Harris hailed Biden’s “courageous decision.”
Harris has boasted that she was fully involved in the debacle as the “last person in the room.”
That is an excellent analysis of a disgraceful comparison.
My thanks to Miranda Devine and the New York Post – Ms. Devine for writing the above material and the Post for publishing it.
I offer my thanks because of the contrast between Ms. Devine/The Post and most other media venues, which either brushed by this disparity or ignored it altogether.
Tell me: if it were Joe Biden or Kamala Harris at the wreath laying ceremony while Donald Trump took a break from his campaign schedule to get in a round of golf, do you think these same media would have looked the other way?
Some questions just answer themselves, don’t they?
