Former President Donald Trump spoke in Detroit Monday, marking three years since the Kabul suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members.
GOP presidential nominee Trump tells rally-goers that he will ‘fire people’ in federal positions’ like on the Apprentice.’
On Monday, Trump promised that if he were to retake the Oval Office, he would demand on Day 1 the resignation of “every single official” responsible for the “Afghanistan calamity.”
“The voters are going to fire Kamala and Joe on Nov. 5, we hope, and when I take office, I will ask for the resignation of every single official. We’ll get the resignations of every single senior official who touched the Afghanistan calamity to be on my desk at noon on Inauguration Day,” said Trump, speaking to a crowd in Detroit at the National Guard Association.
“You know, you have to fire people,” said Trump. “We never fire anybody. You got to fire them, like on the ‘The Apprentice.’ You’re fired. You did a lousy job,” continued Trump, mentioning his reality television series.
“You did a terrible, terrible disservice to our country. You get fired when that happens. Nobody got fired,” said Trump of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. “Nobody ever gets fired in this administration. It’s amazing all the bad things that have happened. Nobody ever gets fired.”
Monday makes it three years since the August 26, 2021, Hamid Karzai International Airport suicide bombing that killed 13 American service members and over 100 Afghans. Islamic State terrorists claimed to be responsible for the attack.
About four months prior to the tragic terror attack, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke about her role during a CNN interview in which she confirmed she was the last person in the room before Joe Biden made the deadly decision to pull American troops out of Afghanistan. The video is making the rounds three years later on social media.
“Afghanistan, were you the last person in the room?” asked CNN anchor Dana Bash.
“Yes,” responded Harris.
“And you feel comfortable?” followed up Bash, to which Harris responded, “I do.”
President Biden has faced criticism from Gold Star families
President Joe Biden faced criticism last month from Gold Star families after claiming falsely during the CNN Presidential Debate that he’s the “only president this century, this decade, that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world.”
Gold Star, father of Marine Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, Darin Hoover, who was one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in Kabul, had a forceful reaction to Biden’s debate claims.
“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,” said Hoover in an interview.
“The rage, the absolute disgust that I got from hearing him say that. I started yelling back at the TV 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 said Biden’s administration sent the 13 Afghanistan Gold Star families letters one year after the attack.
“All the 13 families get a canned letter. It said the same exact thing. And it looked like it was a photocopy of all of that. It was basically, we’re sorry that your service member had died, and that’s been it. We’ve had absolutely nothing before, nothing since,” added Hoover.
Responding to Hoover’s criticism, a spokesperson for the White House said in June that the president “cares deeply about our service members, their families, and the immense sacrifices they have made.”
“And he can then and continues to believe now: Our country owes them a great deal of gratitude and a debt that we can never repay, and we will continue to honor their ultimate sacrifice,” added the spokesperson.
