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Trump visits Arlington cemetery to mark 3rd anniversary of Kabul airport attack
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday visited Arlington National Cemetery for a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to mark the third anniversary of the suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed 13 service members outside the Kabul airport.
Trump was looking to use the anniversary to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic Afghanistan War withdrawal.
The former president was joined by some of the family members of the 13 American service members who were killed, a few of whom also appeared on stage at the Republican National Convention last month, saying Biden had never publicly named their loved ones.
Trump will then go to Michigan to address the National Guard Association of the United States conference.
Monday marks three years since the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which killed 13 American service members and more than 100 Afghans. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
On his Truth Social site Monday, Trump called the withdrawal “the most EMBARRASSING moment in the history of our Country. Gross Incompetence - 13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds of people wounded and dead.”
“You don’t take our soldiers out first, you take them out LAST, when all else is successfully done,” he said in the post.
Since President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Trump has been zeroing in on Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, and her roles in foreign policy decisions.
He has specifically highlighted the vice president’s statements that she was the last person in the room before Biden made the decision on Afghanistan.
In a statement marking the anniversary of the Kabul airport attack, Harris said she mourns the 13 U.S. service members who were killed. “My prayers are with their families and loved ones. My heart breaks for their pain and their loss,” she said.
Harris said she honors and remembers all Americans who served in Afghanistan.