Donald Trump is on the war path to retake the White House. And he knows exactly who to start with.
And now Trump revealed who he’s kicking out of D.C. on day one.
Former President Trump, the GOP’s leading presidential nominee, made a powerful promise on Monday: if he retakes the Oval Office, he’ll demand the resignation of “every single official” responsible for what he rightly calls the “Afghanistan calamity” on Day 1.
“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,” Trump declared to an enthusiastic crowd at the National Guard Association in Detroit.
“You know, you have to fire people,” Trump stated. “We never fire anybody. You got to fire them, like on The Apprentice. You’re fired. You did a lousy job,” he continued, reminding everyone of his no-nonsense approach that America needs now more than ever.
He didn’t mince words when discussing the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, “You did a terrible, terrible disservice to our country. You get fired when that happens. Nobody got fired,” Trump pointed out. “Nobody ever gets fired in this administration. It’s amazing, all the bad things that have happened. Nobody ever gets fired.”
The timing of Trump’s remarks was no coincidence. Monday marked three years since the tragic Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, a devastating attack that k*lled 13 American service members and over 100 Afghans. The brutal assault was claimed by Islamic State terrorists.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who had boasted about her role in the disastrous decision to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, is now facing renewed scrutiny.
In a CNN interview just months before the tragedy, she proudly confirmed she was the last person in the room before Biden made the call. That video is now making rounds on social media, fueling more outrage.
CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed Harris, “Afghanistan, were you the last person in the room?”
“Yes,” Harris replied without hesitation.
“And you feel comfortable?” Bash asked, to which Harris responded, “I do.”
President Biden has also come under fire, especially from Gold Star families, after making the false and insensitive claim 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.”
Darin Hoover, the grieving father of Marine Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, one of the 13 brave Americans k*lled in Kabul, was understandably furious.
“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,” Hoover said in a heartfelt interview with Fox News Digital.
His anger was palpable: “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 revealed that the Biden administration sent the 13 Afghanistan Gold Star families a generic, impersonal letter a 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,” Hoover added, highlighting the administration’s shocking lack of empathy.
In response to Hoover’s justified criticism, a White House spokesperson weakly claimed that the president “cares deeply about our service members, their families, and the immense sacrifices they have made.”
“As he said 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,” the spokesperson added, though the words ring hollow to many.
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