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DETROIT (NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump is tying Vice President Kamala Harris to the withdrawal from the Afghanistan War connected the 3rd day of the termination bombing that killed 13 U.S. work members successful Kabul.
Monday marks 3 years since the Aug. 26, 2021, termination bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 13 American work members and much than 100 Afghans. The Islamic State radical claimed work for the attack.
Trump honored the fallen work members killed successful the bombing by laying a wreath astatine Arlington National Cemetery, joined by immoderate of their families astatine the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Later, he's scheduled to talk astatine the National Guard Association of the United States league successful Detroit.
Trump attacks Harris implicit Afghanistan withdrawal
Trump and his run person repeatedly attacked President Joe Biden over the Afghanistan withdrawal, referring to it arsenic the astir “embarrassing moment” successful the nation’s history.
"Gross Incompetence — 13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds of radical wounded and dead," Trump wrote Monday connected Truth Social, his societal media platform. “You don’t instrumentality our soldiers retired first, you instrumentality them retired LAST, erstwhile each other is successfully done."
He besides posted a video criticizing the Biden-Harris administration's decisions implicit the unit withdrawal.
Since Biden suspended his reelection campaign, Trump has continued those attacks against Harris, pointing to the vice president's statements that she was the last idiosyncratic successful the room before Biden finalized his determination connected the withdrawal.
“She bragged that she would beryllium the past idiosyncratic successful the room, and she was. She was the past idiosyncratic successful the country with Biden erstwhile the 2 of them decided to propulsion the troops retired of Afghanistan,” Trump said past week astatine a North Carolina rally. “She had the last vote. She had the last say, and she was each for it.”
Biden ne'er publically named fallen soldiers: Relatives
Last month, the relatives of immoderate of the 13 American work members killed appeared connected stage at the Republican National Convention and criticized Biden for not publically acknowledging their loved ones. This determination was seen arsenic a effect to claims from Democrats that Trump disrespects veterans and had antecedently referred to slain World War II soldiers arsenic "suckers" and "losers," which Trump denies.
In a statement connected the Kabul onslaught anniversary, Biden said the 13 Americans who died were “patriots successful the highest sense” who “embodied the precise champion of who we are arsenic a nation: brave, committed, selfless.”
“Ever since I became Vice President, I carried a paper with maine each time that listed the nonstop fig of American work members who were killed successful Iraq and Afghanistan — including Taylor, Johanny, Nicole, Hunter, Daegan, Humberto, David, Jared, Rylee, Dylan, Kareem, Maxton, and Ryan,” Biden said successful the statement.
Harris stated she mourns the 13 U.S. work members who were killed. “My prayers are with their families and loved ones. My bosom breaks for their symptom and their loss,” she said.
Harris said she honors and remembers each Americans who served successful Afghanistan.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
