Families of the 13 service members who were killed during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal are supporting Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention.
The families spoke exclusively with DailyMail.com at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, minutes before Trump’s arrival to the arena on night two of the convention.
Their kids were among the 13 Americans and some 170 Afghans who died days later when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in August 2021. To date, not a single Biden administration official has taken responsibility for the loss of life.
Darin Hoover, who lost his son Taylor Hoover, a 31-year-old Marine Corps staff sergeant in the attack, said he wants to ensure ‘what happened to our kids never happens again’ by getting Trump reelected.
‘Sure, war is hell and we’re going to lose some,’ he continued, ‘but not in the manner that our kids were lost.’
‘I’m here because Trump speaks for me, he speaks for my morals, my beliefs. He speaks truth,’ Taylor’s sister Coral Doolittle told DailyMail.com.
The families spoke exclusively with DailyMail.com at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Herman Lopez said ‘Joe Biden has dropped the ball’ and there is no longer ‘trust’ in his administration
‘We are here to support Trump because we need a change. We need somebody that cares for veterans, our military, our military families…and we know that he’s gonna do it for us,’ added Kelly Barnett, Taylor’s mother.
‘I’m supporting Trump because in the last three years and my son has been gone, we have tried to reach out to him President Joe Biden and he’s yet to even return our calls or asked us to meet with us,’ Alicia Lopez, mother of Marine Cpl. Hunter Lopez, disclosed.
She said in the ‘almost three years that we’ve lost our children,’ President Trump has been the ‘only one who has come to us and asked us how we’re feeling and asked us how we’re doing.’
Her husband Herman Lopez said ‘Joe Biden has dropped the ball’ and there is no longer ‘trust’ in his administration.
‘We need a leader that we can have confidence in,’ he continued.
Christy Shamblin, mother-in-law of 23-year-old Sgt. Nicole Gee, told DailyMail.com that she’s supporting Trump because he supports ‘our veterans and armed service members.’
‘The current administration has turned their back on them,’ but not Trump, she said who wouldn’t let the Taliban harm ‘one hair on one head of a U.S. service member.’
Their kids were among the 13 Americans and some 170 Afghans who died days later when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in August 2021
Trump wouldn’t let the Taliban harm ‘one hair on one head of a U.S. service member’
Cheryl Jules added: ‘As soon as Trump left it all went to hell and our kids are dead because of that’
Cheryl Juels, aunt of Gee, added: ‘As soon as Trump left it all went to hell and our kids are dead because of that.’
‘He’s a strong leader…our enemies don’t fear us, they’re all working together and it’s only a matter of time until we end up in a third world war.’
She added that ‘it didn’t matter’ to [Biden] when their childrens’ caskets were coming off the military plane.
Biden came under heavy criticism after video of him checking his watch at the dignified transfer ceremony for the slain military service members from Afghanistan in Dover, Delaware.
When asked by DailyMail.com about Biden’s terrible gaffe during the debate that ‘no service members have died’ under his watch, Shamblin said he ‘disregards’ the military.
‘Our enemies don’t fear us, they’re all working together and it’s only a matter of time until we end up in a third world war’
‘It didn’t surprise us at all, it’s just more lie that he just says out there,’ Jules stated.
She called it ‘disgusting’ that the Biden administration left its Afghanistan allies and partners behind during the withdrawal.
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