It was fine for Democrats in Congress to interrupt President Joe Biden by chanting “Four More Years” repeatedly during the State of the Union on Thursday. In fact, it was welcomed by the president.
But it was not OK for the Steven Nikoui to stand up and yell at the president. He shouted “Abbey Gate” and “United States Marines,” after Biden said the phrase, “America is safer today than when I took office.” Nikoui just couldn’t take the lie and wanted to remind the hall of the site of the 2021 suicide bombing, when 13 US service members were killed during the Biden-ordered chaotic withdrawal.
Nikoui was a guest of Rep. Brian Mast. Florida Rep. Mike Waltz has offered to pay the possible $500 fine.
Nikoui’s son was Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, who died in the 2021 ISIS-K suicide bombing as Biden’s evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan became a deadly military disaster.
Nikoui was removed from the House floor and taken away in handcuffs during what was described by many observers as Biden’s biggest campaign speech to date.
“The Sergeant at Arms is holding my State of the Union guest for yelling at [Biden] in protest because his son was killed in action at the Abbey Gate due to Biden’s incompetence,” Rep. Brian Mast said in a post on X.
“No one has been fired over the Afghanistan withdrawal that took the lives of 13 servicemembers. Biden refuses to ACKNOWLEDGE the lives of the 13 servicemembers. My guest, a Gold Star family member Steve Nikoui, had ENOUGH of Biden’s BS,” Mast wrote.
Nikoui posted bail and then attended a Gold Star family get-together with others who have lost military family members in war. was greeted with overwhelming support at the Dubliner Restaurant in Washington, D.C. Fellow Gold Star families rallied around Nikoui, and applauded his courage. Gold Star father Darin Hoover detailed Nikoui’s ordeal to the New York Post. “He was taken out in handcuffs,” Hoover told the New York Post. “And so we all sat there and waited and waited and waited — and gave him a hero’s welcome when he came in.”
Republicans have called for the charges to be dismissed.
After the speech, Mast was accosted by members of the radical group Code Pink, who demanded a cease fire in Gaza. Mast asked them if they knew “where we stand on terrorists? We stand on their throats,” he said, and walked away on his two prosthetic legs. During Operation Enduring Freedom in 2010, Mast lost both his legs while serving as a U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal technician in Afghanistan. Watch the video of that exchange here:
Thank you Suzanne. This story epitomizes everything that is wrong with our current political situation.
And our judicial system, which is one sided.
We are losing freedoms every day with this clown in the White House and his administration.
Judgment day will come.
It’s a challenge not to get caught up in the moment keeping control of oneself either for someone/something or against it.
Just like us the American people those we elected think they have etiquette and propriety, but they are just as improper and undignified as the rest of us. Childish.
I miss the day when there were Educated people. They stood out from the rest of us lesser educated by their slow to speak, their thoughtful slow responses, quick and sharp wit never missing to say something uproariously funny, and their tall and dapper appearance. Those Americans still stand out, there just much fewer highly educated Americans.
Education has nothing to do with the attributes you describe. A wise old farmer with an eigth-grade education could fit the description perfectly.
Couldn’t agree more
Absolutely. “Educated people” only have the reference of their education scope. A farmer is more in tune with the world and community.
Thank you Rep Mast for your service and sacrifice and thank you Suzanne
AMEN Mitch!
Insane to charge him at all.
But it’s Grandpa Bloodstains government.
Expect to see Mr. Nikoui’s charges dropped and record expunged as soon as President Trump is sworn in.
So Republicans will stand up for the father of a dead Marine, yet none of them came to the aid of Sen. John McCain when he was assaulted and belittled by Trump…
Such hypocrisy.
The charges should be dismissed against the gold star father. The crazy old man standing at the podium should be charged with insurrection and treason.
Can I be on the jury?
Three-quarters of the nation could be on that jury!
What’s all the complaining about from the left? It’s time for a good laugh. Just wait until the disgruntled start throwing shoes at each other! Besides, the U.S. House is for street performers: that’s why it’s considered the lower chamber!
Clearly things are spinning out of control. There are rules and/or laws in place to regulate behavior and decorum in our National Capitol. However, many are now suggesting yet another privileged class be established for whom the rules will not apply. That is, if you are a so-called “gold-star” parent, the rules of behavior in the Capitol will no longer apply to you. Such privilege is similar to being admitted to a college with a below-par SAT score by virtue of your ethnic status. As our culture keeps adding to the countless categories of privileged classes, the divisiveness is further and further exacerbated. As a consequence, the culture itself continues to decline and fall.
Well, then I suppose the folks chanting “four more years” should also have been led out in handcuffs? Not to mention this was the wrong venue for a political speech, and President Trump’s name should not have come up at all. Now who is the privileged class?
“So called gold star parent?”
WTH is wrong with you?
Let’s be really clear here, since you enjoy being pedantic. Are you saying this man did not lose his child as a result of said child being deployed to a war zone?
For someone allegedly concerned about the collapse of the culture, your level of callousness helps the process you claim to decry.
Just out of curiosity: do you know anyone who has lost people in war? Did you call them “so called gold star”
parents?
Thanks for your correction. Let me re-phrase. The man would be fittingly described as a parent of a volunteer soldier who was likely convinced he was fighting for the freedom of all Americans. The soldier’s ultimate sacrifice is clearly something that should be honored and respected. That his sacrifice was truly made for our constitutionally-protected freedom should, and must, be questioned incessantly by every patriot. Back to my earlier point, regardless of how honorable anyone is, we should all be held to the same standards, laws, or rules. The concept of identity politics and victim hierarchy is destroying our country. Do not allow yourself to be deceived. You are contending this man should be allowed to shout-down our so-called president while should not be?
Wayne. In your opinion, does “we should all be held to the same standards, laws, or rules” apply to Trump?
I’m being pedantic? That’s rich coming from the one who cowardly preaches from behind his mask. Let’s be really clear here. You contend this man, by virtue of his son’s ultimate sacrifice, should no longer have to abide by the rules, laws and regulations that apply to the rest of us? Extending your logic, those who lose loved ones in combat should no longer need to stop at traffic lights, pay taxes, or wait in line for anything. In your world, that man’s son gave his life to enable our nation to continue is descent into a cesspool of victim ideology and privilege hierarchies. Disgusting.
Wayne, I am shocked that you , an ardent Trump supporter would find Mr Nikoui’s behavior to be privileged.
I as a father whose son served 3 tours in Afghanistan as a Marine Infantry Sgt see nothing wrong with Nikoui’s outburst. Especially so since Biden is to blame for the fiasco that killed his son and even more so because the liar Biden claimed America was safer under his watch.
I applaud this man for the courage to call Joe out on his detestable bull—-.
Perfect example of our govt. Arrest and handcuff the parent of a dead Marine for being upset and yelling at the Commander and Chief. We have become China and North Korea and we just watch as it plays out. Read the Declaration of Independence folks.
But filming a homosexual video , posting it online afterwards , in the senate chamber resulted in no arrests or discipline!
You know that perpetrator said he was being persecuted (not prosecuted) because of whom he loved. Of course, homosexual “sex” is just mutual masturbation and has nothing whatsoever to do with love, but there ya go.
Tamra: You sure think a lot about sex, other people’s sex. We are all grateful that, as a hetero, you distinguish between love and sex for us.
Wayne, Crouch down and lick the hand that feedsyou. May your chains set lightly upon you and posterity forget that you were ever our countryman(Samuel adams)
I should not need to point out that the quote of Samuel Adams was taken from the moment he was encouraging his fellow countryment to take up arms against the government under which they lived. The context of this matter is quite different. Are you suggesting the gold star parent need not abide by the rules of the Capitol while you and I must do so? You are on a slippery slope.
Joe Biden is a despicable POS. I hope Trump throws him down……..hard.
Amen AST
Mr. Nikoui should face the same process and penalty as any other visitor who breaks the rules.
I’m not opposed, but what are said rules and are they applied equally?
Masked, your question is very pertinent. But let’s refine it. If the rules are applied unequally is the remedy to apply them equally or descend into anarchy?
Bidens incompetence cost this nation 13 kids and I will never ever forgive him for that. Biden is a heartless, soulless, skeleton with flesh hanging on it.
Doug. One could compare the number of deaths caused by Biden and by Trump. Trump’s flaccid response to Covid cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
Trump caused zero Covid deaths. Trump did more than anyone to prevent and treat the spread. Cancelling incoming flights from China where the virus originated, sending hospital ships to both coasts, utilizing the National Guard for field hospitals, and utilizing Ford Motor Co to produce ventilators. Then, the vaccine which the Democrats seized upon and weaponized.
Evan, you could be right. However, its more likely Trump was deceived by a cabal of nefarious operatives…. just like the millions who were jabbed with a phony and dangerous so-called vaccine.
Evan, since “hundreds of thousands” of Americans did NOT die as a direct result of the Wuhan Virus — the CDC’s own (quietly disseminated) figures estimate less than 100,00 such deaths — your claim is specious and a lie on the face of it.
Dying WITH the China Flu was a far different thing than dying FROM the China Flu. And that is particularly true when “cases” of the China Flu were largely ‘determined’ by the invalid use of a DNA amplification method that even its inventor strenuously argued was NOT applicable or appropriate as a diagnostic test.
Dear Hans Litten , Mr. Trump did not cause the death of any of McCains children. All real Americans are standing up for that young Marines father and all of the rest who died because Slow Joe was stuffing his gob with ice crème and sniffing little girls instead of doing his job. Steven Nikoui is an American hero. You Hans are a cry bully.
What seems to be missing here is that Joe Biden did not have the Gold Star Dad arrested. The Capitol Police did the dirty work for him. These are the same Capitol Police that allowed Code Pink disruptors to spew during a Trump SOTU. They were removed but not arrested. Wash, rinse, repeat. While I always cringed at the idea that there is a swamp, the actions of authorities such as the Capitol Police only prove the point of those who point and yell, “swamp!”
Rollo: The capitol police also played a role when Trump’s enfevered dolts attacked Democracy on Jan 6.
Wrong again, Trump offered the National Guard for extra security which was refused by Sergeant at Arms Nancy Pelosi. A mob did form and they were let in and lead by security. A staged act.
Wrong: the escorted those “dolts” like tour guides as they walked through the capital. Oh, and shot an unarmed woman. No Capitol Cop was killed that day.
The capital police are definitely not capital.
Evan you clearly didn’t hear trumps speech, Go peacefully and protest. I know your ilk love to burn buildings and race bait but geez get your story straight.
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