Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23517419 (272340ZAUG25) Notable: Abbey Gate Anniversary - Biden-Harris Will ‘Never Be Let Off the Hook’ for ‘Tragic, Reckless’ Exit
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GOP Marks Abbey Gate Anniversary, Vows Biden-Harris Will ‘Never Be Let Off the Hook’ for ‘Tragic, Reckless’ Exit
Joshua Klein 26 Aug 20251/3
Republican lawmakers on Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the deadly Abbey Gate bombing by honoring the 13 fallen service members while demanding accountability for what they called former President Joe Biden’s “reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan,” which led to the “tragic but preventable attack,” with multiple members vowing to “never let him off the hook for his utter failure as Commander-in-Chief.”
President Donald Trump on Monday signed a proclamation declaring August 26, 2025, as a day of remembrance for the Abbey Gate victims, flanked by Gold Star families as he blasted the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal. “This is a very special group of people. I’ve been with them from the beginning, Abby Gate,” Trump said, calling August 26, 2021, “one of the dumbest days in our nation’s history.”
Trump said the administration should have kept Bagram Airfield and withdrawn from there rather than the vulnerable Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. “At a minimum, they should have been at Bagram, the big field where we have hundreds of acres around it. Nobody’s going to get near it. They left from a small airfield, and the consequences were horrible,” Trump said at the ceremony, joined by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The president also recognized the wounded. “We have, like, 32 maybe more, but approximately 32 who lost their arms and their legs,” he said. “We remember these great 13 souls, but we also remember the people that were so badly injured, our soldiers, and we’re in contact with themPost too long. Click here to view the full text.