A Michigan mother who lost her two sons to fentanyl overdoses has slammed President Biden as ‘despicable’ after he laughed off the false claim that his administration was to blame for their deaths.
Rebecca Kiessling, whose sons Caleb, 20, and Kyler, 18, died in July 2020 after taking what they thought were pain killers, but that were laced with fentanyl Percocet pills lashed out at Biden on Wednesday night after he used her family’s story to knock GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s suggestion he was responsible for the fatalities.
‘This is how you speak about the death of my sons? Because a congresswoman misspoke? You mock the loss of my sons?’ Kiessling said in a scathing video posted on Facebook.
‘How dare you. What is the matter with you? Almost every Democrat on the committee offered condolences, they at least had the decency to do that,’ she said in the video. ‘You can’t even do that? You have to mock my pain?’
According to New York Post, Kiessling had testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday about the loss of her sons, telling Congress that more should be done to stop fentanyl imports.
Greene (R-Ga.) quickly seized on Kiessling’s testimony, suggesting that the brothers might still be alive if the Biden administration had secured the border and stopped the flow of drugs into the US.
Biden, 80, poked fun at Greene on Wednesday night, chuckling as he told a gathering of House Democrats in Baltimore that the boys died under the Trump administration.
‘I’ve read she was very specific recently saying that a mom, a poor mother who lost two kids to fentanyl, that I killed her sons. Well, the interesting thing: That fentanyl they took came during the last administration,’ the president said, adding a ‘heh-heh’ as one or two audience members murmured in disapproval of Greene.
While Kiessling acknowledged that her sons died six months before Biden was elected, she slammed the government’s handling of the fentanyl crisis ever since.
Apart from Kiessling’s scathing criticism, shocked Critics have since seconded Kiessling’s scathing criticism and took aim at Biden’s tone-deaf clap-back.
