Grieving Families Of Afghanistan Bombing Victims Take Aim At Harris

A day before a congressional medal ceremony honoring their children, parents of some of the 13 U.S. troops killed in the August 2021 attack on the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport criticized Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House for not doing enough to prevent the bombing.

The comments also came on the eve of the first and possibly only presidential debate in 2024, which will see Harris take on former President Donald Trump. The remarks were made at a news conference called by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) to discuss the release of a Republican report on the attack that is critical of the White House, the State Department and the National Security Council.

“So many lies and cover-ups by this administration. I speak to Americans: We have been in a downward spiral since the Biden-Harris administration took office,” said Paula Knauss Selph, the mother of Staff Sgt. Ryan Christian Knauss, who died in the attack amid evacuations as the U.S. pulled out of its war in Afghanistan.

“President Trump is certainly not perfect. But he is a far better choice in my opinion than the mess that Biden and Harris have created since Kabul and onward,” she said.

Coral Briseno, the mother of Marine Cpl. Humbert A. Sanchez, blamed the Biden administration for the deaths of her son and others in the Aug. 26, 2021, attack.

“If you read the report, you’re going to get your conclusion. The last person in the room that now wants to be our president is not the right person to be this,” she said.

“We are going to have more Gold Star families. We are going to have more Marines and soldiers dead because of this administration.”

The families of the military service members who died in the suicide bombing at the