President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, entered the hospital room of wounded Marine Sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews. They both carried bouquets of flowers. After shaking hands with Tyler's mother, President Biden began speaking about the loss of his son Beau and his time in the military.

Vargas-Andrews said the president made no mention of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, where he nearly lost his life, and it was unclear whether the commander in chief was speaking to him directly.

“[Then] “Joe came over to me, leaned over and held out his right hand. My left arm was in a cast. My right arm was gone and I just looked at him. He didn't say anything. I just said, 'I've got no arm,'” Vargas-Andrews said.

Without saying a word, Biden walked over to some of Vargas-Andrews' fingers, which were sticking out of the cast, and squeezed them.

Vargas-Andrews, who was seriously injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Abbey Gate during the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul, Afghanistan, spoke to the Daily Caller for about an hour this week about meeting the president, being shunned by the woman who wanted to replace him and coming face to face with death.

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Vice President Kamala Harris explained during the ABC News presidential debate that she supports Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2021. As a result of that choice, she said, American taxpayer money will no longer be used to fund the war.

She falsely added that there were no more American soldiers in the combat zone.

Harris did not acknowledge other consequences of her decision to support Biden's disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan. Thirteen American troops were killed in the Kabul attack, which left many wounded and some missing limbs.

Vargas Andrews was among those injured. As a result of the Biden-Harris withdrawal, he lost his right arm and left leg. His abdomen was torn open, his left testicle was ruptured, and The liver, bladder and spleen were lacerated and punctured.

“Just by any standards, this is disgraceful,” Vargas Andrews said of Harris' debate reaction.

“I think she certainly supported it because she said she was the last one out of the room,” he continued. “And it's the same with John Kirby saying he didn't see any chaos from his seat while all of this was going on. And he recently said he wasn't going to hold a couple of Afghanistan war veterans responsible when this evacuation impacts the entire war on terror, it impacts veterans and their families, all Gold Star families, all the people who've lost limbs, all the people who've been injured, all the people who've lost friends.”

“And what was it for? What did they go there for and sacrifice? It's a disgrace to all those who served,” Vargas-Andrews added.

On August 26, 2021, as the Biden-Harris administration hurriedly withdrew from Afghanistan, approximately 45 Americans were killed in an attack that hit Camp Vargas Andrews with more than 100 steel ball bearings. Approximately 200 people were killed.

Over the course of several months, Vargas-Andrews underwent 49 surgeries at Walter Reed Hospital, and during his recovery he fought for his life.

“[In Germany] “They brought my mom in, said goodbye, they resuscitated me two or three times, then I went to Walter Reed Hospital, where I woke up,” he said. “Then a few days later I was like, 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe' and I could only move my head and my arms were inside these giant styrofoam blocks.And apparently I don't have [my right arm]”And my whole body is open, and I have tubes and stuff in all over, and I can't breathe.”

“They said, 'Your pulse is fine. You've got oxygen in your blood,' and I said, 'I can't breathe.' And then I lost consciousness. I had a double pulmonary embolism.”

He briefly died, Vargas Andrews said, adding that he lost consciousness and required several further attempts to resuscitate him.

Finally, four months after the attack, two of which were spent in intensive care, Vargas Andrews was allowed to leave the hospital as a double amputee.

The Biden-Harris administration has long been under scrutiny for how it withdrew troops from Afghanistan in 2021. Gold Star parents have repeatedly criticized the president for failing to properly acknowledge the operation and their children who died. Still, Biden reportedly told aides he supported the team, and no one was fired afterward.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby later said said In April 2023, Biden said he was “proud” of the way he was running his administration, and Harris has repeatedly bragged about being the last one left in the room when Biden decided to withdraw.

The Biden-Harris administration announced an internal review of the withdrawal in April 2023 and blamed former President Donald Trump for the mess, saying he had not ordered contact with the Taliban, negotiated a withdrawal date, or left the Biden administration with a comprehensive plan for how to carry out the operation.

“Everybody wants to say, 'Oh, Trump met with the Taliban, shook hands and negotiated,' but they don't want to bring up or look at the fact that there was the Doha agreement, and there was a long list of how to get out of Afghanistan, what the Taliban had to abide by, not to kill, not to rape, leave women's rights intact, not to harass us, how to get out of Afghanistan, where to get out, and all of that was just thrown out the window,” Vargas-Andrews said.

Three years on from the Abbey Gate attack, tensions are at a fever pitch.

President Trump attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery at the invitation of Gold Star families, and Vargas-Andrews stood beside the former president as he laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (Related story: Trump marks Kabul bombing anniversary with Gold Star families as Biden kicks off beach vacation)

Trump, Gold Star families and Vargas-Andrews then traveled to the burial site of fallen soldiers in Ward 60. The former president posed for photos and videos with the families while visiting the graves of Staff Sergeant Taylor Huber and Staff Sergeant Nicole Gee.

“I met former President Trump. I first met him at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He was very solemn but friendly and took the time to talk to anyone who wanted to talk. There was no Secret Service swarming around him,” Vargas-Andrews said.

From then on, the media went crazy, NPR Report The altercation reportedly occurred between campaign officials and Arlington Cemetery officials over restrictions on photography at Precinct 60. The Trump campaign has denied the story, and a source familiar with conversations at the event previously told The Daily Caller that Gold Star families had given permission for a campaign photographer to photograph the ceremony. (RELATED: Exclusive: Gold Star Families Struggled to Get Trump to Arlington Until House Speaker Intervened)

“And at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, these families wanted Trump to come. They wanted his team to come. They wanted Trump to be at the ceremony because he's the only person at the head of our government that shows them love and care,” Vargas Andrews told the Caller, adding that Gold Star families also wanted Trump to take photographs of the ceremony.

As the controversy continues, Vice President Harris decided to speak out. In a tweet, she criticized President Trump for recording a video paying tribute to fallen soldiers. Unlike her predecessor, Vice President Harris wrote that she will “always honor the service and sacrifice of America's fallen heroes.”

Eight Gold Star families condemned Harris' comments and accused him of never reaching out to them and ignoring requests to meet with them.

“It's a joke that Kamala Harris would say anything to keep these families out,” Vargas Andrews said.

“At the end of the day, doing that would provide closure for these families, it would provide closure for the 13 Americans who were killed during your term, it would provide closure for the 13 Americans who were killed under the Biden administration, and it would provide closure for all of the active duty military who are still in combat zones around the world who she said were not,” he added.

Vargas Andrews, who has not been contacted by Harris or her office, said the vice president's failure to contact the families was “a misconception.They have blood on their hands.”

“She and this administration are terrified that the truth will come out and they will have to face the consequences of their actions and take responsibility for the Americans who were killed,” Vargas Andrews told the Caller.

“If she acknowledges that, if either of them takes the time to say the names of the 13 Americans who died that day, which they have never said before, it will be an admission of wrongdoing on their part,” he continued.

Harris never contacted Vargas-Andrews, but Biden and his wife spoke with him once, while he was recovering at Walter Reed hospital.

Vargas-Andrews explained to a phone interviewer that she was told shortly after arriving at Walter Reed Hospital, on her second day awake, that the president wanted to see her. An excited Vargas-Andrews told her nurses to withhold all of the president's medication until he arrived so that he would be alert enough for the visit, which was scheduled for less than an hour and a half.

But five hours later, the president still hadn't shown up.

As Secret Service agents entered his room and arranged for him, his mother, Tiffany Andrews, and a close friend to visit, Vargas-Andrews realized that the trauma he'd suffered had caused him to forget who the president was.

“I didn't think it was Biden. I just thought, wow, the president,” he said. “That's amazing, but in my head I couldn't wrap my head around it. I don't think in my brain I could even wrap my head around the good ol' TBI connection. But I was like, oh my God, I have no idea who the president is,” he told The Caller.

Before wrapping up the visit, the president and first lady posed for a photograph with Vargas-Andrews and her mother, and Biden said some final words before leaving.

“They took the picture and then he leaned over to me, got in my face and said, 'What do you want?' And I said, 'What?'”

“He asked me, 'What do you want to do?' And I said, 'I just want to be myself.' And he said, 'What?' And she said, 'He says he just wants to be himself.' And he said, 'Yeah,' and stood up. [with a] “He stared off into the distance, stood up and said nothing, and the Secret Service hurried him out of the room,” Vargas-Andrews said.

After Vargas Andrews was injured, his mother dropped everything to be by her son's side. She did not receive any financial support from the Biden administration. Instead, The Yellow Ribbon Fund and the Semper Fi America Foundation stepped in to support Andrews.

Andrews has been abandoned by the Biden administration. Vargas-Andrews told the Caller that Semper Phi America is working with lawmakers to help push for legislation aimed at helping caregivers.

The lack of support from the Biden-Harris administration didn't deter Vargas-Andrews, who lost both legs. I am an Open Water Diver, I am scuba certified, I have started skydiving again and am working towards getting my skydiving license, I am working on gaining flight hours so I can get my sport pilot license, and I am teaming up with other veterans to start a business. Flatline Hard Goodssells T-shirts and hats emblazoned with Vargas-Andrews' motto: “Never a Victim.”

He told the caller he is the same person he was before the attack.

When Harris took to the debate stage, she may have glossed over the consequences of the administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan, but for Vargas-Andrews and Gold Star families, it's an issue that cannot be ignored.

““You need to take responsibility for what you've done, what everybody's done,” Vargas Andrews said of the message he would give to Harris if she contacted him.

“We need to hold all those responsible in our country and in our military accountable,” he continued. “I highly doubt it — no, I don't doubt it. I know they would never do something like that. But it's the right thing to do. … That's it, really. Those responsible need to be held accountable for what they did.”