Posted on 08/20/2021 3:03:19 PM PDT by conservative98
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday claimed that al-Qaeda is “gone” from Afghanistan and that the Taliban is letting Americans reach Kabul’s airport, before Pentagon leaders contradicted the commander in chief on both claims.
Biden stumbled repeatedly when taking his first questions from reporters on Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban — also claiming that US allies were not displeased by the chaotic US pullout, despite rare public rebukes.
“What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al Qaeda gone? We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al Qaeda in Afghanistan,” Biden said in the White House East Room, defending the US departure.
Attempting to put a positive spin on ongoing evacuations, Biden said “we know of no circumstance where American citizens are carrying an American passport and are trying to get through to the airport.”
When an NPR reporter pointed out that was untrue, Biden changed his answer, saying that “to the best of our knowledge, the Taliban checkpoints, they are letting through people showing American passports” and that some Americans are struggling to reach the airport because of “the mad rush of non-Americans” crowding the area.
But shortly after Biden spoke, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin briefed members of Congress on reports that Taliban troops had indeed been attacking US citizens in Kabul. Austin called the attacks “unacceptable,” two lawmakers confirmed to The Post.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at a briefing following Biden’s remarks that there remains an al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan and that the Pentagon is aware of Taliban fighters impeding transit to the airport.
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It’s like a bad movie with a thousand plot holes.
The incompetence of this administration is enough to make one miss the Carter years.
This is not spinning or putting a pretty face on the problems. Its outright lying.
Keystone cops.
The First
@TheFirstonTV
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ABC Host: “The president said he has no intelligence that the Americans have not been able to get [to the Kabul airport]. The question, obviously—does that square with reporting on ground?”
Reporter: “Just totally not.”
If there was ever time for a military coup …
If only the report had stopped there. Would have been a rare time the MSM was spot on.
If I am the DEMs and Biden's handlers, I would send him into hiding for a couple of weeks. They could go full-court press in getting Afghanistan off the front pages. Instead, Biden speaks again or is quoted, and their whole plan goes off the rails for another 24-48 hours.
The only way Afghanistan disappears from the news now is if nothing bad happens there.
You can’t hide Joe Biden. Even Democrats would ponder on his whereabouts.
I’m so embarrassed to be an American right now
The only way Afghanistan disappears from the news now is if nothing bad happens there.
Or if something bad happens here.
There’s that too. It would have to be big.
Send in the military to freakin’ get the Americans OUT!!!!!!
7 days in May...er August.
AP reporting: US military using helicopters to get people to airport
The Biden Administration is like "Gilligan's Island" except it's not funny and Gilligan is a 78-year old man with dementia.
I’m betting we have a major mass shooting here within the next few days to get the attention off Afganistan.
LOL...pentagon fact checking their hero
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9913247/Pentagon-fact-checks-Biden-MINUTES-claimed-Al-Qaeda-NOT-present-Afghanistan.html
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