Father of Slain Marine Vet Talks at Trump Rally

Retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas Quets said he was never outwardly political.

That all changed Thursday when he joined former President 👤Donald Trump on stage during a rally in Henderson, Nevada.

Quets’ talked about his son, Nicholas Douglas Quets, who was killed by an alleged drug cartel along the Caborca-Altar Highway on Oct. 19 — 30 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, per Fox News.

“I really wasn’t planning on being here,” Warren Douglas Quets said. “Two weeks ago, I was a completely apolitical actor. Anybody outside my own home wouldn’t have known who I would have voted for. Today. The situation changed for me two weeks ago.”

After his son was killed, he was able to see the difference in presidential candidates first-hand.

He met with Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), three days after the younger Quets was killed.

“So when you wonder about where America really is and what the stories are, you don’t have to wonder anymore. The man next to me and his vice presidential nominee, a current seated senator, both met with me within 36 hours of asking, and both took up the cause,” Quets said.

“It is the policy that contributed to my son being killed. It is the policy that’s contributing to the death of other Americans,” he said. “It is the policy that’s contributing to fentanyl coming into the United States. Those are political failures, and we need to end them.”

According to Mexican officials, Nicholas Quets