(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The mother of a Marine who was murdered in a terrorist attack after Biden’s disastrous Afghan withdrawal said she was outraged when the president interrupted her sharing memories of her son, to take center stage for himself.
Marine Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui was killed in an attack that killed 13 U.S. service members during the withdrawal, the Daily Wire reported.
His mother, Shana Chappell, spoke to President Joe Biden after the attack, in a meeting where he started discussing his own son, Beau.
“He interrupted me and started talking about his son. About his son,” Chappell said in an interview. “And I remember looking at him and going, ‘What are you doing?’ And then I said something along the line, ‘This isn’t about your son. This is about my son.’”
She continued pressing the president, making it clear that their situations were very different.
“I told him he had no business talking about his son,” she continued. “And then I started again talking about my son, and then he said, ‘I just wanted to let you know how I feel.’”
Chappell continued, expressing her anger that he brought up his son, who died of cancer, despite his feelings being irrelevant to the situation.
“I probably sounded like I didn’t care that he lost a kid and I didn’t mean for it to sound that way,” she elaborated. “It’s — his son died of cancer, so they had time to be there, spend time with him, tell him goodbye.”
“My son died because of the very man that I was talking to.”
Chappell has been a vocal critic of the withdrawal, calling it a “complete failure,” and claiming that the mainstream media and current administration want it and the 13 who died to be forgotten.
