The father of one of the Marines slain in a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul during President Biden's disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan told Fox News his outburst at the president's State of the Union address last week was unplanned and that if the commander-in-chief wouldn't speak his son's name, someone did.

Steve Nikoui said he sat in the gallery at the State of the Union as a guest of Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., praying Biden would finally acknowledge his son's name more than two years after the catastrophic withdrawal.

"I was looking at this spectacle that I was seeing below me, and I was listening to him, and I was praying, hoping that maybe at some point prior to this that he had mentioned Afghanistan [and] our kids, because all the Gold Star parents were thinking that that might be a possibility, and it wasn't happening," Nikoui said Monday on "Hannity."

"And then as soon as he said something about kids and then something about being safe – I don't even know what I did… I just jumped up, and I said, ‘Do you remember Abbey Gate?’ – It was like the Lord convicted me. The Holy Spirit got in me, and when I did it, I paused. I was like, ‘Oh, what did I do?’."

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Nikoui was soon arrested after the outburst and charged with "crowd obstructing or incommoding."

On "Hannity," Nikoui said after he shouted about Abbey Gate, he called out his son's name and rank, "because I've been waiting three years for this man (Biden) to say my son's name in this chamber – and he never did."

"But on this day – on this day – his name was said."

During the State of the Union, Biden also received backlash for muffing up the name of Laken Riley, the Georgia student allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. Biden instead referred to her as "Lincoln Riley," the name of the University of Southern California's football coach.

In regard to the servicemembers slain during the Afghan withdrawal, Biden also took heat in the immediate aftermath when he was filmed repeatedly checking his watch as the remains of the fallen were being offloaded at Dover Air Force Base, Del.  

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On "Hannity," Nikoui also criticized two then-top military officers, now-retired CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kenneth Frank McKenzie and then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, indicating they will soon testify before Congress about the withdrawal and asking Americans to follow it.

In a press release, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, announced a March 19 hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Nikoui praised McCaul for his attention to Cpl. Nikoui's death and those of the other servicemembers at Abbey Gate while indicating that four other lawmakers – Mast, Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Michael Waltz, R-Fla. and Cory Mills, R-Fla. – are the "four horsemen" who have tried to keep attention on the loss of life during the evacuation.

Joining Nikoui on "Hannity," Issa also condemned Biden, saying both himself and the corporal's father have publicly uttered the names of the fallen more than their commander-in-chief.

"One of the reasons that there's no closure is there's never been a real acknowledgment by this president," Issa said.

Issa criticized Biden for instead invoking the death of his eldest son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, during the State of the Union around the time he flubbed Riley's name. 

"He'll talk about Beau's death, but he won't talk about these 13 [servicemembers] or how we keep it from happening again and again," Issa said.

Host Sean Hannity also asked Nikoui about the 2022 death of Kareem Nikoui's brother, who, while not a blood relative, had been in Steve Nikoui's life since the boy was an infant.

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Dakota Halverson was "devastated" by Kareem's loss and took his own life at a California park that was to be named after the fallen Marine, Nikoui said.

"It's been devastating for his mother. It's been devastating for his siblings… and the effect of this president. Just like [former Trump speechwriter] Stephen Miller said -- this is a reactionary president," Nikoui said.

"The poor Riley family – they're killing my kid, they're killing their kid. And what are you going to do, America? You're going to wait till they kill your kid? Because you know [Biden] is a bumper car hitting everything on his way out, and the only one that's going to be left to pick up the pieces is us."

In 2022, Cpl. Nikoui was also memorialized via a bill from Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., that renamed the Marine's hometown post office in his honor.

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A Melbourne, Florida man was arrested after allegedly extorting over $80,000 from his wife to fuel his cocaine habit by falsely claiming he was involved with a drug cartel.

Eric Paul Johnson, 29, was charged with grand theft of $100,000 or more, organized fraud to obtain property valued over $50,000 or more, extortion, and unlawful use of a two-way communications device – all felonies.

Court records say Johnson’s wife returned home from work in December 2023 and saw several messages from an unknown phone number. In the messages, the person demanded various sums of money.

Johnson allegedly told his wife they were being blackmailed and that a man named "Troy" was going to help them out.

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The person who sent the messages told Johnson’s wife that her husband would be hurt or killed if she did not send money to a CashApp account.

For instance, one of the messages read in part, "… 500 now for my family or things will happen."

In another message, the person wrote, "500 now or buenas noches," which means good night in Spanish.

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Johnson was missing when the messages were sent, though this was not the first time he had allegedly disappeared, and ransom was demanded.

Just two months before Johnson’s wife reported him missing, he started to disappear frequently because he allegedly owed money to the cartel.

Once she paid the ransom to the alleged cartel, Johnson would come home.

When Johnson disappeared in December, he was in possession of his wife’s car. She told police she believed he returned to the house on the day of the kidnapping, noting she saw an outfit he was previously wearing in the bedroom, court documents note.

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Police found Johnson the day after he was reported missing after he was seen driving on US 192 in Melbourne.

Police said in the court filing that Johnson admitted he was the one who sent the text messages from an unknown number to his wife, adding he had a cocaine problem.

Although Johnson said he never sold drugs, he admitted he was a personal user, court documents alleged.

When investigators searched his phone, they allegedly found "sexting" messages to a woman on the day he was reported missing by his wife.

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Johnson met his wife in May 2020, and he disclosed to her that he used cocaine and marijuana, but also worked for a drug cartel, court documents allege.

He also allegedly told her he was running a "large quantity of cocaine, which was ultimately intercepted and resulted in a loss of $60,000."

Johnson’s wife helped him pay off the alleged debt.

Nearly two years before the couple married, Johnson allegedly stole $9,000 from his wife by pulling money out of ATMs around Melbourne.

Between May 2020 and December 2023, Johnson allegedly received $18,120 from his wife and a total of $124,549 from her and other sources.

On Friday, Johnson pleaded not guilty to the charges.