Gold Star Father Arrested Outside of SOTU Speech – HotAir

As is my usual custom, I didn’t bother staying up to watch Joe Biden blunder his way through his State of the Union Speech last night. (We forced Beege to do it.) But while browsing through some of the lowlights this morning, one disruption caught my eye. After the President made a patently false statement about America being “safer” under his presidency, Biden was briefly interrupted by someone in the gallery who started shouting at him. Such disruptions are sadly not all that uncommon these days, but this man’s commentary was oddly specific. He shouted out “Abbey Gate! Second Battalion, First Marines!” That is the location outside of the airport in Kabul where 13 Marines were killed in an ambush during Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The person doing the shouting was Steve Nikoui, the father of one of the Marines who died that day. Mr. Nikoui was removed…