President Joe Biden once again made someone else’s tragedy about himself by invoking his late son’s memory and death — and not telling the truth in the process.
In this case, according to the New York Post, Biden on Thursday called the family of Army Spc. Kennedy Sanders of Georgia to express his condolences.
Sanders was one of three U.S. troops, all from Georgia, killed in Jordan over the weekend by a drone strike launched by Iranian-backed militants. The Pentagon is looking into whether the drone snuck by U.S. defenses because troops mistook it for an American aircraft.
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During the call to Shawn Sanders and Oneida Oliver-Sanders, the soldier’s parents, Biden announced that Sanders would be promoted to sergeant posthumously, the Post reported.
According to the Post, after her parents thanked Biden, the left-wing president replied, “I tell you what, it means a lot to me. My son spent a year in Iraq; that’s how I lost him.”
Not quite.
As the Tampa Free Press has reported, Army National Guard Maj. Beau Biden was deployed to Iraq for a yearlong tour beginning in 2008.
In 2013, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. The cancer killed him in 2015. Beau died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
The president has claimed that Beau’s illness was caused by his exposure to burn pits while serving in Iraq. Yet he also has admitted that he cannot prove it.
As the Post noted, Joe Biden has pulled this tactic before.
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Back in August, Cheryl Rex, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola, who was killed in the August 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul’s international airport as Biden initiated the withdrawal from Afghanistan, reported that Biden did the same when he contacted her to express his condolences.
“‘We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin,’” Rex recalled Biden telling her.
The website Trending Politics reported last May that Biden, while speaking to U.S. troops in Japan, said of Beau, “We lost him in Iraq.”
As the Tampa Free Press reported in October 2022, Biden was in Colorado to dedicate the Camp Hale Continental Divide as a national monument.
Camp Hale was a site where U.S. soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division trained in preparation for operations in Europe during World War II.
During his speech, Biden recalled that Beau “lost his life in Iraq.”
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