(OurNationNews.com) As expected, the face-off between former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden on the debate stage was filled everything from audacious and misleading claims to outright misrepresentations of the truth – but not just from one, but from both candidates.
President Biden incensed many servicemembers when he claimed that no soldier has died under his watch.
“The truth is I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any (deaths in the military) this decade,” Biden said during the debate.
In contrast, however, data from the U.S. Department of Defense itself shows that 13 U.S. servicemembers died when a suicide bomber from ISIS attacked the Abbey Gate at the Kabul Airport in 2021 during the U.S. contingent’s complete withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Mark Schmitz, the father of one of the soldiers who died during the Kabul attack, Marine Corporal Jared Schmitz, said that when he heard the claim, had to struggle to restrain himself from putting his “fist right through my TV.”
Schmitz says that aside from being shocked by the claim, he was “beyond ticked off, [and] disrespected.”
Another father of one of the soldiers who were killed in Kabul, Steve Nikoui, said that he “wasn’t surprised” by the president’s statement. Through the years since his son, Marine Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, died in Kabul, the elder Nikoui said that the president has “basically refused to honor the service and sacrifice” of his son and the other servicemen who died that day. In addition, the elder Nikoui said that Biden’s own “incompetence” in the troop pull-out in Afghanistan was a major factor in his son’s death.
Trump on the other hand, had no shortage of his own ludicrous claims, such as one regarding the January 6, 2021 riots at the Capitol.
“They talk about a relatively small number of people that went to the Capitol and in many cases were ushered in by the police,” the former president said.
Multiple videos and footage of that day show thousands of people storming the Capitol. More than 1,400 individuals have been charged in relation to their actions that day, and more than 850 have pleaded guilty while 200 others have been convicted. J. Thomas Manger himself, the chief of the Capitol Police, also said that it was entirely false that officers “helped” the rowdy protesters.
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