A Marine sniper catastrophically injured within the lethal blast at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport praised President Donald Trump for conserving his promise to victims after the U.S. apprehended the terrorist allegedly accountable.
Retired Marine Corps. Sergeant Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who misplaced an arm and a leg within the assault, advised “Fox & Pals” he wasn’t “essentially shocked” by the information however is glad to see these accountable face some accountability.
“I used to be at Arlington not too long ago… with President Trump and Vice President Vance, and I spoke to them instantly, and so they each promised me and these households, as they’ve beforehand, to our faces, that there can be accountability in our nation’s authorities and elsewhere for what has occurred,” he stated.
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US President Donald Trump throughout a joint session of Congress within the Home Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
Vargas-Andrews’ buddy and mentor, Ssgt. Darin “Taylor” Hoover, was one of many 13 U.S. servicemembers killed in motion within the August 2021 bombing throughout the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He stated Trump acknowledged Hoover’s title throughout their dialogue, including that Trump stated he knew Hoover’s household very nicely.
“Hoover was killed subsequent to me,” Vargas-Andrews stated. “And simply to have the president know who he’s and to actually perceive and be coherent sufficient to work with these households and be buddies for them… I believe nearly on daily basis since that day… the Trump administration has been there for them [Gold Star families] when the earlier administration was not.”
Vargas-Andrews advised co-host Lawrence Jones that he was knowledgeable in regards to the high terror suspect’s apprehension the afternoon earlier than President Trump revealed throughout Tuesday’s joint tackle to Congress that the suspect, recognized as Muhammed Sharifullah, was in U.S. custody.
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“I need to thank, particularly, the federal government of Pakistan for serving to arrest this monster,” Trump stated throughout the speech, calling it a “momentous day” for the Gold Star households of the servicemembers who misplaced their lives throughout the assault.
Trump moreover vowed that Sharifullah would face the “swift sword of American justice.”
Whereas relieved to see the mastermind behind the assault face accountability, Vargas-Andrews stated the “most necessary” factor is to verify Protection and State Division officers “who’re at fault for getting us to the place we’ve been at present” are held accountable as nicely.
Gold Star mother Paula Knauss Selph, whose 23-year-old son Military Workers Sgt. Ryan Knauss was killed throughout the assault, praised Trump’s aggressive strategy to terror in a “Fox & Pals First” section on Thursday.
She advised co-host Carley Shimkus, “If he didn’t [take a tough stance], then each terrorist that’s round this world proper now can be eyeing us somewhat bit extra. As a result of he’s exhibiting that he’s exhibiting no tolerance for nonsense, particularly within the lives of our navy and those that we’re serving, it is a nice response from our president.”
Fox Information’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
