In a shocking turn of events, Gold Star Dad Steven Nikoui, 51, was thrown behind bars for challenging Biden on the Afghanistan debacle during the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.
The father of a Marine killed during the poorly managed US force withdrawal from Afghanistan interrupted President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night by screaming at the top of his lungs for the audience to remember the horrific bombing that claimed his son’s life.
51-year-old Steven Nikoui yelled, “REMEMBER ABBEY GATE!” as Biden was about to boldly declare that Americans are “safer today than when he took office!” US Navy” He was alluding to a gate outside of Karzai International Airport, where on August 26, 2021, a suicide bomber murdered 11 Marines, a Navy corpsman, and an Army soldier during a crowd of civilians attempting to escape the nation. Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, a 22-year-old Californian, is one of Nikoui’s sons who died.
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Fox News interviewee Nikoui (2022) denounced “the carelessness of this administration” and claimed Biden “hasn’t taken any accountability.” Additionally, he demanded that General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, retire. His spouse, Shana Chappell, commented, “For some reason, [administration officials and generals] want to blame everyone but themselves, but it is actually their fault all of this happened.”
Nikoui yelled at Biden but was compliant when US Capitol Police requested him to leave and led him out of the room. Based on a misdemeanor District of Columbia accusation, he was placed under arrest and handcuffed. Capitol Police declared in a statement that “disturbing the Congress and demonstrating in Congressional buildings is illegal.” “This is a routine charge on Capitol Hill. People who illegally demonstrate/disrupt Congress typically are released after they pay a $50 fine, so the misdemeanor charge is resolved without going to court.”
Nikoui was a guest of Republican Florida Representative Brian Mast, who was helping an Army Rangers unit as a bomb technician for the US Army when he walked on an improvised explosive device in the Kandahar Valley of Afghanistan, resulting in the amputation of his two legs and a finger.
It’s unclear if he was aware that Nikoui was going to interrupt Biden’s remarks. Mast posted a picture of himself and Nikoui on Twitter earlier in the day with the caption, “Joe Biden may try to turn the page on Afghanistan after his incompetence cost American lives, but NOT ON MY WATCH.”