Defense Department Investigating Marine at Trump Rally Who Claimed to Have “Pulled the Baby Over the Wall” in Afghanistan

The Defense Department is investigating a Marine who attended a rally erstwhile President Donald Trump held connected Saturday aft helium claimed helium was the Marine who “pulled the babe implicit the wall” successful Afghanistan, a notation to a viral clip showing a United States Marine hoisting a tiny babe miss implicit a razor-wire fence outside Kabul airport.

The chaos & fearfulness of radical is simply a testament to the planetary community’s relation successful AFG’s downfall & their consequent abandonment of Afghan people. The aboriginal for AFG has bn decided for its radical without its people’s ballot & present they unrecorded astatine the mercy of a violent group. #Kabul pic.twitter.com/k4bevc2eHE

— Omar Haidari (@OmarHaidari1) August 19, 2021

Lance Cpl. Hunter Clark made the assertion during Trump’s rally successful Perry, Georgia.

“Hey my name’s Lance Cpl. Hunter Clark. I’m present from Warner Robins, Georgia. I americium the feline that pulled the babe implicit the wall, and it’s decidedly astir apt 1 of the top things I’ve ever done successful my full life,” helium said astatine the time. “I conscionable privation to convey each of the enactment from each of y’all. It truly means a lot, and I’m gladsome to beryllium location present today. Thank you.”

“The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit has initiated a bid probe regarding Lance Cpl. Hunter Clark’s attendance astatine the lawsuit past play to find if immoderate DoD policies were violated,” said Capt. Kelton Cochran, the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit spokesperson, noting that “the Marine identified successful that peculiar representation was not Lance Cpl. Clark.”