President Biden forced the grieving relatives of Marines killed in Afghanistan to wait for hours while he napped on Air Force One, multiple family members said.
On Aug. 26, Taliban terrorists killed 13 Americans soldiers and more than 170 Afghans at Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate in Afghanistan.
The attack came during the final days of the chaotic American withdrawal from the country.
Biden’s reported nap took place during a “dignified transfer” ceremony when the president and First Lady Jill Biden were to welcome the caskets of the fallen soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
The families said the octogenarian leader’s decision to snooze on the tarmac instead of greet them was an insult to the memories of their loves ones.
Biden “made us wait an extra three hours to receive the bodies of our dead family members because he couldn’t pull it together,” Roice McCollum told the DailyMail.
McCollum’s brother, Rylee McCollum, was killed in the airport massacre.
A military officer told her Biden was snoozing on the plane, Roice said.
That account was additionally confirmed by Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, and Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee.
Both soldiers were killed in the Kabul explosion.
“We sat in that office for what seemed like an eternity waiting on the doddering old fool,” Hoover told the Mail.
The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal after 20 years of war is widely viewed as a low point in Biden’s term.
He faced criticism from military families after being filmed checking his watch during the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover.
White House allies later tried to insist the moment never happened.
A rep for the White House similarly insisted Nap-gate was false.
“That claim is untrue. As President Biden said on the 4th anniversary of the tragic attack on Abbey Gate and in the letters he wrote to family members after meeting with them in Dover, ‘these 13 Americans — and the many more that were wounded — were patriots in the highest sense’ and ‘we owe them and their families a sacred debt we will never be able to fully repay, but will never cease working to fulfill,’ a White House spokesman said.
