Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (OH) ripped President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their “betrayal” of the 13 U.S.
service members who were killed during the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021. Vance joined Gold Star Family members of several of the fallen service members — Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole L.
Gee, Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, and Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared M.
Schmitz — on a press call Monday, which marked the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing that took their lives. “What an incredible natural resource that we have in this country — young patriotic people who are willing to give their lives — and what an incredible betrayal that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden squandered that resource,” Vance said on the call that Breitbart News and other media attended. Vance emphasized that many of these families are particularly troubled by the lack of accountability within the Biden-Harris administration: What I hear from so many of the people speaking before me, talking about the loss of their sons and daughters and family members, is they’re not even mad that mistakes were made.
Sometimes mistakes do happen, especially in a combat zone. What they’re angry about is the lack of accountability. “They’re angry that we don’t know why we made the decisions that led to these young troops dying unnecessarily.
They’re mad that we don’t have any accountability,” he added. “Why has nobody been fired? .