August 26, 2024

Contact: Tommy Pigott and Taylor Rogers, Team Trump

TRUMP HONORS OUR FALLEN HEROES – Today, President Donald Trump laid wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery in honor of the brave U.S. military men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in the August 26, 2021, bombing of Abbey Gate in Afghanistan.

He visited the graves of the fallen, and spent time with the Gold Star families.

Kamala Harris refuses to say the names of the 13 servicemembers tragically killed in Kabul. President Trump does more than just say their names, and he will always remember and honor them.

• Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31, from Salt Lake City, Utah

• Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, from Lawrence, Massachusetts

• Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23, from Sacramento, California

• Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22, from Indio, California

• Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23, from Omaha, Nebraska

• Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, from Logansport, Indiana

• Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20, from Rio Bravo, Texas

• Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20, from St. Charles, Missouri

• Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20, from Jackson, Wyoming
  

• Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20, from Rancho Cucamonga, California

• Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, from Norco, California

• Navy Hospitalman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, from Berlin Heights, Ohio

• Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23, from Corryton, Tennessee

WHERE IS KAMALA? – During her speech at the DNC, Kamala Harris claimed, “I will fulfill our sacred obligation to care for our troops and their families, and I will always honor and never disparage their service and their sacrifice.”

As vice president, she has already broken that commitment. Today marks three years since the attack on Abbey Gate which killed 13 American heroes, and the contrast could not be clearer. President Trump laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery today to honor the fallen. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has nothing on her schedule, and Joe Biden, who is nominally still president of the United States, is at the beach. All Kamla did to mark the day was post on X.

This is part of a years-long pattern of Kamala Harris disrespecting the Gold Star families, refusing to honor the fallen, and denying any accountability:

• She played a “key role” in the Afghanistan disaster by her own admission.
• She has defended the decision continually, and praised Joe Biden’s debate performance after he heinously insisted no U.S. servicemembers had died on their watch.
• She has never said the names of the 13 heroes in public.
• There have been no answers for the Gold Stars families as the Harris-Biden administration has stonewalled any accountability.

Where is Kamala today? Why is she refusing to honor the fallen? She should have been at Arlington National Cemetery, and so should have Joe Biden. Kamala Harris failed our soldiers and their families. President Trump never will.

UNITING AMERICA – Former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard officially endorsed President Trump today during his speech to the National Guard Association.

She is the second former Democrat presidential candidate to endorse President Trump in just a matter of days. President Trump is uniting America!

KAMALA IS TERRIFIED – Kamala Harris is once again showing that she is terrified of debating President Trump. First, she refused to accept President Trump’s challenge to three debates. Now, she is attempting to walk back on her word by demanding changes to the debate with ABC – conditions which she has already accepted.

Reminder, Kamala’s own campaign said “the debate about debates is over.” Instead of changing already agreed upon rules, she should be accepting additional debates.

What is Kamala so afraid of?

THREE YEARS LATER – President Trump marked three years since the attack on Abbey Gate with a message to the Gold Star families and our nation.

BACK-TO-BACK LAWSUITS – For the second time in the last week, the RNC and NCGOP sued the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) – this time for failing to require identification to prove citizenship. By violating Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and not checking the identification of approximately 225,000 voters, the agency is opening the door for non-citizens to vote.

In the words of RNC Chairman Michael Whatley, “The NCSBE has once again failed in its mandate to keep non-citizens off the voter rolls, fueling distrust and jeopardizing our elections. We are committed to the basic principle – and commonsense law – that only Americans decide American elections. Deliberately failing to follow the law, right before our country’s most important election, is inexcusable. We will fight every day to ensure that NCSBE follows the law, cleans the voter rolls, and protects the vote for North Carolinians.”

Read the full press release here.

KAMALA’S “KEY ROLE” – Team Trump is out with a new must-read research piece on Kamala’s “key role” in the Afghanistan withdrawal, and how she failed our servicemembers, our veterans, the families of the fallen, and the American people.

Here is some of what the piece discusses:

• “Today marks the third anniversary of the tragic bombing of Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, that cost the lives of thirteen U.S. servicemembers.

  • In that time, the Gold Star families of the heroes killed during Harris and Biden’s botched withdrawal have demanded answers and accountability.

    • Christina Shamblin, mother-in-law of fallen Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee: ‘When our leaders, including our secretary of defense and our Commander in Chief call this evacuation a success as if there should be celebration, it is like a knife in the heart for our families and for the people who came back.’
    • Christina Shamblin, mother-in-law of 23-year-old Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, has added that she's supporting President Trump because the Harris-Biden administration has ‘turned their back on them.’
    • Cheryl Rex, whose son Marine Lance Cp. Dylan Merola died in the Kabul airport bombing: ‘I feel I deserve real answers, real truths, facts and for someone to be accountable for the failures that occurred, that took my son’s 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 President Trump reelected.”
• “Despite Harris’ ‘key role’ in the administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal, she has failed to express any regret with her administration’s actions.”
• “In recent years, reports have revealed that the Harris-Biden administration missed two chances to neutralize the terrorist network behind the Kabul Airport suicide attack that killed 13 troops at Abbey Gate.
  • The Islamic State operative who detonated the device at Abbey Gate had previously been detained at the Bagram prison until the Harris-Biden administration had U.S. troops and Afghans abandon it.”

The piece covers much more, click here.

“SHE OWNS THIS” – The Gold Star families of the fallen have a message for Kamala Harris, she “owns” the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

• “Grieving Gold Star parents tore into the Biden-Harris administration Monday as the nation marked three years since the terrorist attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport claimed the lives of 13 U.S. service members.”
• “‘[Kamala Harris] owns this as much as he [Biden] does,’ Mark Schmitz, father of late Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, told ‘Fox & Friends.’”
• “'She's following in the policies that Joe Biden has ushered in during his presidency and obviously, neither one of them know what the heck they're doing. And that terrifies me, because we know we can't bring our kids back,’ he continued. ‘But what we want to see is the military that is out in the field right now – those families are never going to be put through what we've been put through. It's been absolutely shameful.’”

Read the full article here.

IN THE WORDS OF THE GOLD STAR FAMILIES – The Gold Star families of the servicemembers killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal shared their stories. Watch the video here.

KAMALA’S FAILURE – Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have failed our soldiers and their families. Watch the video here.

KAMALA HARRIS’S DISRESPECT – Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have shown nothing but disrespect to the Gold Star families of those killed in Afghanistan. Watch the video here.

COMRADE KAMALA IS STILL COMRADE KAMALA – Some in the mainstream media are confused. They are under the incorrect impression that Kamala Harris has disavowed her decades-long radical liberal record. She has never personally disavowed it – not once.

Anonymous statements from staffers do not suffice to explain away the positions she ran for president on in 2019, and as far as we know, has held up until 30 days ago (and in reality still does). In fact, the only new policy we have heard directly from her is Soviet-style price controls.

This is why it’s so important that she actually does interviews. Is she fake? Is she dangerously liberal? Or both? The American people deserve answers.

WHOSE BORDER WALL? – Kamala Harris is now showing President Trump’s border wall in her ads.

It shows her dishonesty. Kamala has long opposed the border wall, and the Harris-Biden administration did everything they could to block construction, even selling off building materials for cents on the dollar.

President Trump built hundreds of miles of border wall, and will secure the border once again when he’s back in office!

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