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Marine Who Survived Suicide Bombing Shares about Horrendous Meeting with the President – Watch

Marine Who Survived Suicide Bombing Shares about Horrendous Meeting with the President – Watch

A Marine who survived the Kabul suicide bombing in August 2021 is speaking out about an odd and insulting meeting he had with President Joe Biden shortly after the attack.

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who lost his arm as a result of the Kabul bombing, told his story in a recent interview with Shawn Ryan, claiming that Biden’s visit left his mother “furious.”

VARGAS-ANDREWS: He walks in with him and Jill Biden, and their little entourage of people and like photographer, and (pause), right away, I remember him coming up to me trying to shake my hand, trying to shake my right hand. I look at him, and I’m like, “I don’t have an arm.” My left arm is in this big-*** cast with this giant orange ******* foam block around it. I’m completely immobile, all I can do is move my hand, and he says “Oh” and like kind of stands up and goes over to reach for my fingers because about an inch of my fingers are showing. Doesn’t greet me or anything. That’s what happened, just grabbed my fingers.

I was like, “Okay, that’s weird,” and, you know, almost immediately starts talking about how their son served in the military. Doesn’t say anything about what happened, just starts talking about how their son served in the military, and my mom is just like, she’s furious at this point. And they’re like taking pictures and stuff.

According to Vargas-Andrews, the president didn’t even know his name, much less was he aware of the specific injuries he had suffered.

Here is more of the interview:

VARGAS-ANDREWS: He leans over me, and he’s like this close to my face, and he’s like, “What do you want?”

INTERVIEWER: What do you want?

VARGAS-ANDREWS: Yeah, and he said, “What do you want?” I said, “What?” And he said, “What do you want?” I’m just like confused, I just got blown up and I just ******* saw my friends die next to me, and I just want to be myself. And he’s like, “Huh?” And my mom’s furious, and she’s like, “He said he just wants to be himself, he just wants to be him, he said he just wants to be me.” And he goes, “Oh, okay.”

And they just continued to talk about everything but what just happened, and then they just ushered him out of the room. He didn’t know what to say, they ushered him out of the room, and that was that.

Written by Mark Stevens - August 8, 2023