Darin Hoover, whose son, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, was one of the 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, told Newsmax on Friday that he hopes an investigation ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will find former President Joe Biden and others in his administration responsible.
“There’s a whole lot that I hope for,” Hoover told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” adding that he hopes Gens. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. and Austin S. Miller, then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Biden are “all found culpable in this.”
The Gold Star father also said he hopes that the investigation will result in a “reset” of the military’s rules of engagement, going back to the days when the soldiers on the ground who see “exactly what happens” are backed.
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