'Biden is not a Gold Star father and should
stop playing one on TV': George
W. Bush speechwriter pens scathing
Op-Ed criticizing President
for repeatedly invoking son Beau's
death amid Afghanistan crisis
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/5/2021 1:50:54 PM
President Joe Biden should stop invoking his late son Beau Biden as a way of deflecting criticism of his handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush wrote. ‘Mr. Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV,’ William McGurn wrote last week in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.(Snip)Biden’s invoking of his late son to justify his decision to remove soldiers from Afghanistan was out of place because Beau Biden did not die in combat and was never deployed to the country, according to McGurn. 'Meantime, the president refuses to acknowledge any hint of failure,
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Exceedingly rare: a former Bush associate speaks the truth.