The daddy of one of many Marines slain in a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport in Kabul throughout President Biden’s disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan informed Fox Information his outburst on the president’s State of the Union tackle final week was unplanned and that if the commander-in-chief would not communicate his son’s title, somebody did.
Steve Nikoui stated he sat within the gallery on the State of the Union as a visitor of Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., praying Biden would lastly acknowledge his son’s title greater than two years after the catastrophic withdrawal.
“I was looking at this spectacle that I was seeing below me, and I was listening to him, and I was praying, hoping that maybe at some point prior to this that he had mentioned Afghanistan [and] our kids, because all the Gold Star parents were thinking that that might be a possibility, and it wasn’t happening,” Nikoui stated Monday on “Hannity.”
“And then as soon as he said something about kids and then something about being safe – I don’t even know what I did… I just jumped up, and I said, ‘Do you remember Abbey Gate?’ – It was like the Lord convicted me. The Holy Spirit got in me, and when I did it, I paused. I was like, ‘Oh, what did I do?’.”
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Nikoui was quickly arrested after the outburst and charged with “crowd obstructing or incommoding.”
On “Hannity,” Nikoui stated after he shouted about Abbey Gate, he referred to as out his son’s title and rank, “because I’ve been waiting three years for this man (Biden) to say my son’s name in this chamber – and he never did.”
“But on this day – on this day – his name was said.”
Through the State of the Union, Biden additionally acquired backlash for muffing up the title of Laken Riley, the Georgia pupil allegedly murdered by an unlawful immigrant. Biden as an alternative referred to her as “Lincoln Riley,” the title of the College of Southern California’s soccer coach.
In regard to the servicemembers slain in the course of the Afghan withdrawal, Biden additionally took warmth within the quick aftermath when he was filmed repeatedly checking his watch because the stays of the fallen had been being offloaded at Dover Air Drive Base, Del.
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On “Hannity,” Nikoui additionally criticized two then-top army officers, now-retired CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kenneth Frank McKenzie and then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, indicating they may quickly testify earlier than Congress concerning the withdrawal and asking People to comply with it.
In a press launch, Home International Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, introduced a March 19 listening to on the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Nikoui praised McCaul for his consideration to Cpl. Nikoui’s demise and people of the opposite servicemembers at Abbey Gate whereas indicating that 4 different lawmakers – Mast, Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Michael Waltz, R-Fla. and Cory Mills, R-Fla. – are the “four horsemen” who’ve tried to maintain consideration on the lack of life in the course of the evacuation.
Steve Nikoui shouts as US President Joe Biden speaks. (Shawn Thew through Getty )
Becoming a member of Nikoui on “Hannity,” Issa additionally condemned Biden, saying each himself and the corporal’s father have publicly uttered the names of the fallen greater than their commander-in-chief.
“One of the reasons that there’s no closure is there’s never been a real acknowledgment by this president,” Issa stated.
Issa criticized Biden for as an alternative invoking the demise of his eldest son, former Delaware Lawyer Common Beau Biden, in the course of the State of the Union across the time he flubbed Riley’s title.
“He’ll talk about Beau’s death, but he won’t talk about these 13 [servicemembers] or how we keep it from happening again and again,” Issa stated.
Host Sean Hannity additionally requested Nikoui concerning the 2022 demise of Kareem Nikoui’s brother, who, whereas not a blood relative, had been in Steve Nikoui’s life for the reason that boy was an toddler.
Dakota Halverson was “devastated” by Kareem’s loss and took his personal life at a California park that was to be named after the fallen Marine, Nikoui stated.
“It’s been devastating for his mother. It’s been devastating for his siblings… and the effect of this president. Just like [former Trump speechwriter] Stephen Miller said — this is a reactionary president,” Nikoui stated.
“The poor Riley family – they’re killing my kid, they’re killing their kid. And what are you going to do, America? You’re going to wait till they kill your kid? Because you know [Biden] is a bumper car hitting everything on his way out, and the only one that’s going to be left to pick up the pieces is us.”
In 2022, Cpl. Nikoui was additionally memorialized through a invoice from Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., that renamed the Marine’s hometown publish workplace in his honor.
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