With this one look, US President Joe Biden may have lost a lot of sympathy. The fathers of two US Marines killed in the suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan last week have slammed US President Joe Biden and vilified the commander-in-chief during the weekend's handover ceremony to look at his watch.
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Darin Hoover, the father of Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, told Fox News' Sean Hannity that Biden checked his watch every time the flag-covered coffin passed during Sunday's ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the Home state of the President, taken from the hold of the Air Force's C-17 Globemaster aircraft. "They triggered the salute and he looked at his watch at each one," Hoover said. "He checked the clock on all 13. Mark Schmitz - whose 20-year-old son, Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, died in the attack - corroborated Hoover's story.
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"I leaned in to my wife and said: I swear to God if he looks at the clock again..." Schmitz recalled, "and that was probably only the fourth time. After that I couldn't look at him anymore, especially when I thought about the time and why we were there. I found that to be the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen," he is quoted as saying by the New York Post.
The embittered man added that his family's meeting with Biden before the ceremony "didn't go well." "He talked more about his own son than about my son," said Schmitz, "and I didn't like that." Hoover said he and his family declined to meet with Biden. "No way. We didn't want anything to do with him," he said. "We didn't want him - we didn't want him around. We decided as a family that it's going to be like that."
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The family of 20-year-old Marine Rylee McCollum was the most angry about the president. In an incredible radio interview, his mother Kathy called Biden "a demented piece of s*** that doesn't even know it's in the White House". McCollum's sister, Roice, meanwhile, claimed the president "totally ignored the loss of our Marine" when speaking to family in Dover.
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