Afghanistan Gold Star families tear into Biden for being ‘proud’ of deadly exit: ‘He is Satan to me’

Members of Gold Star families bumped into President Joe Biden after a speech Monday in which he claimed history would judge his messy withdrawal from Afghanistan kindly.

Biden delivered a closing State Department foreign policy speech alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken with just a week left in his term.

He gave a glowing review of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 — in which 13 U.S. troops were killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber — calling it “the right thing to do.”

Critics – including newly elected President Donald Trump – said it encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine six months later.

“There is nothing – I can tell you from my conversations with both Xi and Putin – nothing that our adversaries and competitors – like Russia and China – would like more than for us to remain tied up in Afghanistan for another decade,” he said. . “For all these reasons, ending the war was the right decision.”

“And I believe history will reflect that,” the president argued.

Darin Hoover, whose son Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover was killed on August 26, 2021, when a suicide bomber attacked the crowd gathered outside Kabul airport disagreeing with the Democratic president.

Taylor Hoover was one of 13 soldiers killed in the attack on Kabul airport, which was part of the chaotic US exit from the 20-year war.

“It amazes me that he takes credit for ending the war and is proud of it!!!” Darin Hoover said in a statement to DailyMail.com. ‘WE LOST OUR CHILDREN because he thought history will reflect him as this great human being, while to me he is Satan.’

Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee. (left) and Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover (right) were both killed in August 2021 when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside Kabul airport amid the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Family members spoke to DailyMail.com

President Joe Biden delivered a final foreign policy speech from the State Department on Monday. He argued that history would judge his withdrawal from Afghanistan kindly.

Hoover said Biden was “100 percent incompetent” because of the way the withdrawal was done.

“He is a disgusting man who in my mind has ZERO integrity or any respect and has no idea what it feels like to be in our shoes, especially when the withdrawal happened the way it did,” Hoover also said. “It was NOT necessary for it to happen that way.”

Christy Shamblin, the Virginia Gold Star mother-in-law of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee – who also died in the blast – was also unimpressed.

‘So sad. Disappointed to see the same head-in-the-sand mentality,” she told DailyMail.com in a statement. ‘Terrorist attacks are taking place. It has absolutely returned Afghanistan to the rule of the Taliban and armed terrorist groups. Claiming success that no one else can see.”

“He shouldn’t have said ANYTHING,” Shamblin said.

“We need problems to guarantee our national security and not hide behind aid to Ukraine and the railways in Africa,” the Gold Star’s mother-in-law also said.

With Biden canceling a trip to Rome last week that would have marked his final trek abroad, his latest trip was his December trip to Angola, where he toured a U.S.-funded railroad.

With Monday’s speech, Biden wanted to express that America’s biggest enemies – namely Russia and Iran – had been weakened during four years of the Democrat’s foreign policy.

Indeed, when discussing Russia, Biden brought up successes in keeping Putin out of Kiev.

The president also said the withdrawal from Afghanistan did not have the negative impact some predicted.

“Remember, critics said ending the war would damage our alliances and threaten our homeland through foreign-targeted terrorism from a safe haven in Afghanistan,” Biden said. “Neither happened.”

The perpetrator of the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans was inspired by ISIS – not Al Qaeda, Bin Laden’s group that operated from Afghanistan and was behind September 11.

The war in Afghanistan began after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, DC and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The withdrawal took place in August 2021 – ahead of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11.