'I hope you burn in hell! That was my brother!' What sister of Marine killed in Afghanistan screamed at Biden during Dover casket ceremony where he 'wouldn't even look' relatives in the eye
Some family members of the 13 fallen U.S. service members lashed out at President Joe Biden during the Sunday dignified transfer of their remains, a Tuesday report details.
Mark Schmitz, the father of Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, told The Washington Post that a sister of a fallen troop yelled at the president after receiving the remains on Sunday: 'I hope you burn in hell! That was my brother!'
'I can't fault her for it,' Schmitz told the Post. 'We all lost somebody.'
Schmitz said that he showed a picture of his son to Biden and told the president: 'Don't you ever forget that name. Don't you ever forget that face. Don't you ever forget the names of the other 12. And take some time to learn their stories.'
He recalled that Biden didn't seem to like those comments.
'I do know their stories,' Schmitz detailed that the president shot back.
The families gathered in Dover, Delaware on Sunday where the remains of the 13 troops who died in a suicide bombing near the Kabul airport on Thursday arrived. Biden was at the base for the dignified transfer of the fallen.
Marine Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum's family was also at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday as his remains returned to the U.S. – and they were given a chance to meet with the president.
Only McCollum's widow, Jiennah, accepted the meeting.
The family told the Post that Jiennah was left disappointed by her talk with Biden.
Families of the fallen U.S. service members were left disappointed by Joe Biden at the dignified transfer on Sunday. One sister of a fallen Marine yelled at the president: 'I hope you burn in hell! That was my brother!'
Rylee McCollum's family (L-R: sister Cheyenne, sister Roice and father Jim) said they felt Biden was 'fake' in his sympathy on Sunday. Roice and Jim refused to meet with he president at Dover
Fallen Marine Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum's widow Jiennah (right) thought her talk with Biden felt scripted. The two married six months ago and Jiennah is due to give birth to their child next month
McCollum's sister Roice said she didn't want to meet with Biden because 'you cannot kneel on our flag and pretend you care about our troops. You can't f**k up as bad as he did and say you're sorry. This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands'
One of McCollum's sisters, Roice, said her brother's widow thought Biden sounded scripted in their few-minute conversation.
Roice said that during the meeting with Jiennah, Biden showed a 'total disregard to the loss of our Marine — our brother, son, husband and father.'
'He cannot possibly understand,' Roice said. 'My dad and I did not want to speak to him.'
'You cannot kneel on our flag and pretend you care about our troops,' she said. 'You can't f**k up as bad as he did and say you're sorry. This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands. The thousands of Afghans who will suffer and be tortured is a direct result of his incompetence.'
During an interview with Fox News on Tuesday morning, Rylee's other sister Cheyenne detailed that she stayed with Jiennah at the start of her conversation with Biden, but walked away when she felt he was being 'fake.'
'Roice and my dad chose to leave the room. I chose to stay with my brother's wife,' Cheyenne said. 'She wanted the chance to look him in the eye and see if it was going to be a sincere conversation or apology.
'I was able to stand about 15 seconds of his fake, scripted apology and I had to walk away,' she continued.
She detailed that Biden 'would not look us in the eye' and felt 'there was not an ounce of sympathy' coming from him.
'He tapped her on the knee and said, 'I know what you're going through, I lost my son,' Cheyenne detailed, tapping her sister on the shoulder.
Jim McCollum, Rylee's father, told Fox & Friends: 'It was more about his son. My son wasn't mentioned.'
'It was his son and about him and nothing to do with the 13,' he said.
Jiennah married Rylee just six months ago and is due to give birth to his child next month.
President Joe Biden is under fire for looking at his watch during Sunday's 'dignified transfer' onto American soil of the 13 American troops killed in Thursday's Kabul suicide bomb attack
The US Marine Corps posted a photo to Twitter Sunday evening, of 11 flag flag-draped caskets of their fallen brethren killed in Thursday's suicide bomb attack in Kabul
The president continues to get flak for his handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and for repeatedly checking his watch during the dignified transfer of 11 of the service members on Sunday
Mark Schmitz and and Darin Hoover – the father of Staff Sergeant Darin Taylor Hoover Jr. – spoke to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night where they blasted Biden for repeatedly checking his watching during the return of the service members who were killed.
Both fathers claimed Biden checked his watch after every casket was removed from the plane on Sunday.
'The checking of his watch, that didn't happen just once,' said Hoover regarding a picture emerging of the president glancing down at the clock on his wrist.
'That happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them,' he said in awe.
'They would release the salute, and he would look down at his watch on every last one, all 13, he looked down at his watch.'
'As a father, you know, seeing that and the disrespect...'
Schmitz added: 'I leaned into my son's mother's ear and I said, I swear to God, if he checks his watch one more time - and that was probably only four times in.
'I couldn't look at him anymore after that.
'Considering especially the time and why we were there, I found it to be the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen.'
Hoover said he refused to meet with the president at the event.
Schmitz said his own meeting 'didn't go well', and Biden spent more time talking about his own son Beau than Jared Schmitz and the other fallen.
The fathers of fallen Marines Jared Schmitz (left) and Taylor Hoover (right) spoke out against Biden
Mark Schmitz (left) and Darin Hoover (center) told Sean Hannity on Monday that Biden repeatedly checking his watch during the dignified transfer on Sunday
The president, Hoover and Schmitz said, checked his watch as each casket was taken off the plane during the ceremony
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