Father of Marine killed in Abbey Gate bombing rips Dems incredibly insulting reaction to terrorists capture
The father of a US Marine killed in the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan said he was “incredibly insulted” by Democrats’ apathetic reaction to President Trump’s announcement that the mastermind behind the attack has been captured.Mark Schmitz, whose son Marine Lance Cpl.Jared Schmitz was killed in the blast, said he was “disturbed” that only a fraction of Democrats cheered when Trump revealed in Congress Tuesday that the US had nabbed ISIS-K terrorist Mohammad Sharifullah.“You would think that every single person in that place would be standing up and applauding and cheering,” Schmitz told Fox News on Wednesday.“But we all know there was only one side that seemed to be doing that,” he said.“There was probably only a third of the Democrats who even so much as clapped, which is incredibly insulting as a Gold Star family.“This has got nothing to do with politics,” he said, complaining that the “death of our kids” should “not be a partisan issue.” Sharifullah allegedly confessed to plotting the suicide bombing outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul during the chaotic withdrawal of US forces in August 2021 after the Taliban seized power.Family members of those killed in the explosion, which also left 170 Afghan civilians dead, had criticized former President Joe Biden’s failure to mention the slain soldiers in any of his State of the Union addresses following the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, according to Fox News.A week after the attack, Biden sparked further outrage by checking his watch during a solemn ceremony for the fallen at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware when the service members’ bodies were returned.Since then, the families had minimal communication with the Biden administration, Schmitz said — a sharp contrast to the stunning breakthrough announced by Trump just weeks into his second term.“To find out that they got this guy is amazing,” the dad said.Sharifullah confessed...