A Marine who was severely injured during the U.S. military’s evacuation from Afghanistan has described an awkward encounter he had with President Biden after he survived a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan.
A U.S. Marine shares his story of President Joe Biden visiting him in the hospital after he was injured while serving in Afghanistan. CREDIT: The Shawn Ryan Show
Vargas-Andrews said he was asked by the generals who visited him in the hospital whether he wanted to meet the president so he could be thanked for his service. Hesitant and still sedated from the medication he was taking, he welcomed the idea. Vargas-Andrews said he was told that the president would be at the hospital to meet him in"about an hour."
"Two minutes later, he walks in with Jill Biden and their little entourage of people and like a photographer," he recalled."Right away, I remember him coming up to me trying to shake my hand, shake my right hand, and I look at him, and I'm like 'I don't have an arm.' My left arm is in this big a-- cast with this giant orange f---ing foam block around it. I'm completely immobile. All I can do is move my head.
Vargas-Andrews said the Bidens"almost immediately starts talking about how their son served in the military. [He] doesn't say anything about what happened, just starts talking about how their son"My mom's furious at this point and they're like taking pictures and stuff," he said of the encounter.
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