A family that lost one of the three military personnel slain in an Iranian-backed drone strike in Jordan over the weekend was joined in their grief by President Joe Biden.
During an interview with the parents of 24-year-old Spc. Kennedy Sanders, Biden made false claims that he could empathize with their suffering by claiming that he “lost” his son Beau “in Iraq.” In actuality, five years after returning from a deployment abroad, the president’s late son went away from brain cancer.
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Biden marred the scene as her mother sobbed after announcing Sanders’ posthumous promotion to Sergeant.
“Oh, well I tell you what, it means a lot to me. My son spent a year in Iraq, that’s how I lost him,” Biden said.
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President Biden claimed at least three times last October that he had forgotten information concerning the death of his son Beau. These errors cast doubt on Biden’s judgment and age, particularly at a pivotal juncture in his reelection campaign. The White House communications team appears prepared for similar situations in 2024 based on its attempts to keep traveling media at a distance.
When Biden meets troops who are wounded in combat, he often tells an inflated story of Beau’s death. Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who survived an Afghan suicide blast, talked about his impressions of Biden’s visit in August. The president immediately extended his hand to shake hands with the photographers and members of his entourage.
“I look at him, and I’m like, ‘I don’t have an arm.’ And my left arm is in this big-ass cast with this giant orange f***ing foam block around it, completely immobile. All I can do is move my head… and he says “Oh” and kind of stands up and goes over to reach for my fingers because about an inch of my fingers are showing and just like grabs my fingers. Doesn’t greet me or anything, that’s what happened, just grabbed my fingers,” said the veteran.
From there, First Lady Jill Biden and the president, according to Sgt. Vargas-Andrews, “almost immediately started talking about how their son served in the military.”
The vet’s mother was enraged and stood by him, telling the president, “I don’t give a f. I don’t care what you do. You better take care of him for the rest of his fing life.” The encounter became increasingly bizarre at that point.
“He leans over to me, and he’s like this close to my face, and he’s like, ‘What do you want?’ I said what? He said ‘What do you want?’ And I’m just like confused. I just got blown up, just f***ing saw my friends die next to me. I just want to be myself. And he’s like ‘Huh?’ And my mom is furious, she goes ‘He just wants to be him.’ And he goes ‘Oh, OK’. And they just continue to talk about everything but what just happened. And then they just ushered him out of the room, he didn’t know what to say, they ushered him out of the room, and that was that.”
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The government has been requested by the relatives of military victims to propose legislation that would provide more support to soldiers’ family caregivers. In response, $2.4 billion is included in Biden’s FY24 budget for the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers, which offers support services and stipend payments to enable caregivers of qualified veterans.
