“President Donald Trump will remain in Florida and will not go to Dover Afb to a dignified transfer of the bodies of four American soldiers who died during exercise in Lithuania” – said the Fox News correspondent in the Pentagon Jen Griffin.
The head of Pentagon Pete HegeSeth went to the Air Force base in Dover in Delaware..
On Friday morning, Trump appeared on his golf course in West Palm Beach in Florida, and later is expected at the LIV golf tournament in his other property, in Dalal near Miami. LIV is a golf league sponsored by the State Saudi Arabia Fund. In the official calendar of the president, however, there is only one event, a candlelit dinner with sponsors of his election campaign.
US presidents often, although they did not always take part in the database in Dover, although they were causes of political controversy. Republicans criticized President Joe Biden for looking at the watch during the ceremony of accepting the bodies of soldiers killed during the attack at the airport in Kabul. During his first term of meeting with Trump, the father of the commando, who died during surgery in Yemen, refused.
On Thursday The bodies of four soldiers who died during the exercises in Podbrodzie were solemnly said goodbye to Vilnius, and was attended by thousands of inhabitants of the Lithuanian capital, including the President of the Country Gitanas Nauseda.
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25-year-old Edvin Ben Franco, 25-year-old Jose Duez, 21-year-old Dante Gogo Taitano and 28-year-old Troy Smith Knutson-Collins were killed on March 25, when the M88 Hercules technical security wagon went to complete the task. After almost a week's search and rescue operation, their armored vehicle was pulled out of the swamp. The bodies of three soldiers were found in Hercules, extracted on March 31, the body of the fourth soldier was found in the swamp on April 1.
