Donald Trump had a busy campaign schedule on Monday. But where was Kamala Harris?
Monday was what the establishment media would be calling a “grim milestone” if it had taken place while a Republican was president: it marked the third anniversary of the jihad suicide bombing in Kabul that killed thirteen Americans as the Biden regime was executing its catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
While Old Joe Biden (remember that guy?), who is apparently still president of the United States, went on yet another in a seemingly endless string of vacations, Donald Trump went to Arlington National Cemetery for a private event with the families of the Kabul victims. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, was staying out of sight on Monday (“off the campaign trail,” as her press agents at the Washington Post put it), and for good reason: her old remarks about her pivotal role in the Biden regime’s Afghanistan decision making were coming back to haunt her.
Fox News reported Monday that “many conservatives have marked the third anniversary of the deadly Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 Americans during the Biden administration's Afghanistan withdrawal by unearthing poorly aged comments by Vice President Kamala Harris.” “Poorly aged” is generous. These were remarks that, in a sane political environment, would end anyone’s political career. We do not, however, have a sane political environment.
Three years ago today, America lost 13 heroic servicemembers in the Abbey Gate terrorist attack.
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) August 26, 2024
We honor their memory and will never forget their sacrifice. pic.twitter.com/7KpTfXE8A7
Several months before the debacle in Kabul, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Harris, "Afghanistan, were you the last person in the room?" Harris responded proudly: "Yes." Bash prodded further, asking Harris, "And you feel comfortable?" Harris was unequivocal: "I do." This means that Harris was proud of and comfortable with her role in abandoning Bagram Air Base before any personnel or military equipment had been taken out of the country, thus making it necessary to use Kabul’s commercial airport to get everyone out.
This set the stage for the abandonment of seven billion dollars’ worth of military equipment, which the Taliban were just proudly parading around Kabul. It also made it inevitable that Kabul’s airport would be choked with people trying to get out of the country, which set the stage for the Islamic State jihad suicide bomber to take out thirteen Americans and over a hundred Afghans who were caught in the crush.
This is not something of which Kamala Harris should be proud. This is something about which she should be deeply ashamed. If she really played the decisive role in the decision-making over the Afghan withdrawal that she suggested to Dana Bash, she should have resigned in disgrace soon after the catastrophe, and be resting today in some taxpayer-funded bungalow without a dream in her head of running for president of the United States.
And so on Monday, some patriots were determined that the American people would remember the Kabul disaster and Kamala Harris’ role in it. House Speaker Mike Johnson posted the video of Harris talking with Bash on X, with the comment: “Three years ago today, America lost 13 heroic servicemembers in the Abbey Gate terrorist attack. We honor their memory and will never forget their sacrifice.”
Trump adviser Jason Miller also posted the Harris/Bash video, adding, “Kamala Harris was the last person in the room when the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan was ordered, leading to 13 American service members being killed. Harris bragged about her role on-camera.” Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) posted photos of the thirteen service members and wrote, “Three years ago, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ incompetence led to the death of 13 American service members in Afghanistan. Biden may have forgotten them, but we never will. Our men and women in uniform are NOT disposable.”
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Trump’s 2024 National Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, posted the video as well, along with the comment: “Kamala owns every failure of the Biden-HARRIS Administration, including this one.”
It’s no wonder, in the face of all this and more, that the Harris camp opted to give The Cackler Monday off. After all, if she had been somewhere, anywhere, the risk would have been present as well: someone might have had the unbelievable effrontery to ask her about what she thought about the Afghanistan withdrawal and her role in it now.
And what could she say then? She could either repudiate her own administration or her own words for three years. Better to stay out of sight on the tragic anniversary and hope that no one would remember it by the time Tuesday came around. And given the sycophants who staff the establishment media, it was likely true: by the day after the anniversary, no one would remember, much less be talking about, the thirteen service members killed in Kabul at all.
