BIDEN’S SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION OF HIS DEAD SON:

After getting 13 American military personnel killed in Kabul, Biden met with family members and, instead of listening to their pain and apologizing for his actions, lectured them about his son.

Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the scion of the family who took up the family business, figured large in his father’s speeches defending his disastrous retreat in Afghanistan. It was the same stump speech that Biden had been giving about his dead son for six years which he dusted off to explain why he was abandoning Americans in the hands of terrorists.

It was the same speech to which he subjected the family members of the men he killed.

“When he just kept talking about his son so much it was just — my interest was lost in that. I was more focused on my own son than what happened with him and his son,” Mark Schmitz, the father of Lance Cpl Jared Smitz, said. “I’m not trying to insult the president, but it just didn’t seem that appropriate to spend that much time on his own son.”

Related: The Problem with Our Mourner in Chief. “This week my friend Charlie Cooke and the Wall Street Journal’s Bill McGurn called attention to Joe Biden’s odd habit of stepping on the stories of the families of some of the 13 troops killed in the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal last week by telling them about Beau’s Army service (in Iraq) and unrelated death. It sometimes feels as though the president is hoping people will mistake him for a Gold Star parent. Biden fans have made a great deal of his supposed gift of empathy, but where exactly is the evidence for that?”