Joe Biden has told his fair share of lies throughout his 50-plus year political career. But one of his most egregious came during last week’s debate against Donald Trump, in which the befuddled president claimed zero U.S. service members have died under his watch.
“I’m the only president this century — this decade that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world,” he said.
The patently false claim has not gone unnoticed by Gold Star families whose loved ones were killed during Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. The horrifically executed pull-out led to the deaths of 13 service members and left billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. military equipment in the hands of the Taliban.
“You know, the stumbling, bumbling buffoon that we have in the White House had the audacity to say that under his watch that no military members have died,” Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, told Fox News. The younger Hoover was one of the 13 service members who perished in Kabul nearly three years ago and was engaged to be married at the time of his death.
“[T]he rage, the absolute disgust that I got, from hearing [Biden] say that — I started yelling back at the TV,” the deceased Marine’s father said. “Just out of frustration. He’s never acknowledged, not one time, any of our kids. He’s never said their names. Even to this day, I doubt very seriously that he even knows their names.”
Hoover’s mother Kelly Barnett similarly added:
