Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert released a new video on Tuesday claiming that the mother of one of the 13 U.S. service members who died in an attack outside of the Kabul airport last year thanked her after she heckled President Joe Biden during his State of the Union Address earlier this month.
Boebert claimed a few of the parents of the 13 fallen heroes thank her for her outburst and Shana Chappell the mother of “lieutenant corporal Kareem Nikoui” wanted her to share her message.
“When I heard you say 13 of them, when that guy pretending to be president was once again refusing to say our kids names, my heart dropped, my eyes fill with tears and I was so happy to hear that someone in your position thought about our 13 kids at that very moment. You have no idea how much that meant to me,” Chappell wrote, according to Boebert. “We’re got no accountability for what happen to our kids. We’ve been lied to over and over and then we have to sit and watch this administration act as if it never happened.”
According to Boebert, Chappell said the outburst gave her “some type of hope that maybe there’s someone out there who might be able to get us some type of justice or at least make sure people are reminded about this corrupt administration.”
There’s one major problem, there’s no such thing as a “lieutenant corporal.”
An officer named Kareem Nikoui was among the thirteen that died. He was Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps.
Chappell has been critical of the Biden administration since her son’s death. After the attack her Instagram account was “incorrectly” deleted after she made multiple posts blaming Biden for her son’s death.
A Facebook spokesperson at the time apologized and restored her account.
