Esquire Suffers Meltdown Over Trump Paying His Respects to Troops Killed in Biden-Harris Afghan Withdrawal
President Donald Trump traveled Monday to Arlington National Cemetery to join several Gold Star families in paying respects to the fallen, specifically the 13 service members killed exactly three years ago in the Biden-Harris administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The once and possibly future commander in chief’s effort to keep alive the memories of American service members killed under his successor’s watch provoked a complete meltdown at Esquire magazine.
The Hearst publication’s lead political blogger, Charles P. Pierce, asked in a feverish piece Monday, “How the hell was this allowed to happen[?]”
The cemetery, where just last year the Biden-Harris administration trampled graves and toppled the Jewish American-designed Reconciliation Memorial, is open to members of the public, so it’s unclear who exactly Pierce figured would prevent Trump’s entry.
Nevertheless, Pierce took offense on behalf of the nation, Gold Star families, and those who alternatively watched without objection as Trump joined two service members wounded in the Abbey Gate bombing in laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, writing:
Arlington is profaned by his presence on just an average day. But to allow itself to be used for the purpose propping up one of the Republican Party’s most noxious half-truths — as promulgated by its most noxious elements personified by its most noxious candidate — is an insult to the over 400 Medal of Honor awardees buried there.
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