‘We Correct the Wrong Today’: Abbey Gate Gold Star Families Visit Oval Office after Obiden Regime Shamefully Disregarded Them

President Donald Trump righted a wrong Monday by honoring the Gold Star families of the 13 soldiers killed during the Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021.

This from westernjournal.com.

In an Oval Office event, Trump signed a proclamation to mark the fourth anniversary of the bombing, which happened Aug. 26, 2021, after The Obiden Regime ordered a precipitous and what turned out to be disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Before signing the proclamation, Trump told the families of the slain standing behind him:

There are some great souls that are looking down on you right now, and they’re very proud of their parents, and brothers, and sisters. Moms and dads, especially. That’s what I seem to have dealt with, mostly. There’s nothing tougher.

Trump said:

They deserve it. They went through hell for no reason. It should have never happened.

Vice President J.D. Vance, a Marine Corps veteran who served during the Iraq war, added:

We’re so honored to have all of you here. I know that days like today can’t make the hurt go away. But hopefully four years on, we can start to remember with fondness and a little bit a joy, the people that were taken from us. We’re so proud of you.

Regarding the proclamation which Trump signed, the vice president said:

This is a rectification of a wrong—the fact that the [former installed] president of the United States lost your loved ones through incompetence, but never acknowledged it. And your government never actually put pen to paper to say we’re grateful for your sacrifice. We correct that wrong today.

Trump’s proclamation said, in part:

As our Nation remembers this atrocious attack, we honor the memory of every brave warrior who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

Further:

We join in grief with the families who senselessly lost a loved one, and we renew our solemn pledge to our 13 fallen patriots—we will never forget you; we will never forsake you; and your memory will live on forever.

Trump’s honoring of the Gold Star families stood in stark contrast to The Regime’s treatment of them. The POS occupant was infamously caught on camera checking his watch during the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

The New York Post reported at the time that family members of Marines killed during the attack slammed the occupant, with one father calling his repeated check of his watch, “the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen.”

Mark Schmitz—whose 20-year-old son, Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz was one of the thirteen killed—told The Washington Post that his family’s meeting with the occupant “didn’t go well.”

He talked a bit more about his own son [Beau Biden] than he did my son, and that didn’t sit well with me.

Further:

When he just kept talking about his son so much, it was just—my interest was lost in that. I was more focused on my own son than what happened with him and his son.

And:

I’m not trying to insult the president, but it just didn’t seem that appropriate to spend that much time on his own son.

During the occupant’s last State of the Union address in March 2024 after he said:

All Americans deserve to be safe.

The father of Lance Col. Kareem Nikoui, killed in the 2021 Kabul bombing, called out from the gallery, “Abbey Gate!”

“Second Battalion, First Marines!” he then shouted. Capitol Police then removed him from the chamber.

Fox News reported last August on the third anniversary of the bombing that neither Joe-Joe nor What’s-Her-Name had ever reached out to the Abbey Gate Gold Star families.

The two may not like being reminded of the preventable tragedy that took place on their watch, but thankfully, Trump and Vance were not willing to let the Gold Star families’ sacrifice be forgotten.