Former President Donald Trump will speak at the National Guard Association’s 146th General Conference and Exposition in Detroit on Monday.
The event is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Watch it in the player above.
Earlier, Republican presidential candidate Trump laid wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery in memory of three of the killed soldiers.
On the third anniversary of the suicide attack that killed 13 US soldiers, Trump links Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic withdrawal from the Afghanistan war.
Monday marks the third anniversary of the suicide attack on August 26, 2021, at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in which more than 100 Afghans were killed in addition to the US soldiers. The terrorist militia Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
On his website Truth Social, Trump called the withdrawal on Monday “the most embarrassing moment in our country’s history. Gross incompetence – 13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds injured and dead.”
“You don’t take out our soldiers first, you take them out LAST, when everything else has been successfully accomplished,” he said in the post.
Since President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign, Trump has focused on Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, and her role in foreign policy decisions. He has particularly highlighted the vice president’s statements that she was the last person in the room before Biden made the decision on Afghanistan.
“She boasted that she would be the last person in the room, and she was. She was the last person in the room with Biden when the two of them decided to pull troops out of Afghanistan,” he said at a rally in North Carolina last week. “She had the final vote. She had the final say, and she was all for it.”
In her own statement on the anniversary of the attack on Kabul airport, Harris said she mourned the 13 US soldiers killed. “My prayers are with their families and loved ones. Their pain and loss breaks my heart,” she said.
Harris said she honors and remembers all Americans who served in Afghanistan.
“As I have said before, President Biden has made the bold and right decision to end America’s longest war. Over the past three years, our administration has proven that we can take out terrorists, including the leaders of al-Qaida and ISIS, without troops in combat zones,” she said. “I will never hesitate to take any action necessary to counter terrorist threats and protect the American people.”
