Posted on 08/16/2021 7:26:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden in a statement on Monday morning over the situation in Afghanistan, the third such statement over the last few days.
“First Joe Biden surrendered to COVID and it has come roaring back,” Trump said in reference to skyrocketing cases due to the Delta variant of COVID-19. “Then he surrendered to the Taliban, who has quickly overtaken Afghanistan and destroyed confidence in American power and influence.”
“The outcome in Afghanistan, including the withdrawal, would have been totally different if the Trump Administration had been in charge,” Trump continued. “Who or what will Joe Biden surrender to next? Someone should ask him, if they can find him.”
The remarks from Trump come as Biden has faced widespread criticism over his decision to remain from public view as the situation in Afghanistan seemingly grows more dire by the hour.
“What Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary,” Trump said yesterday in calling for Biden’s resignation. “It will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American history!” Trump said. “It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the Border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence, and our crippled economy.”
Trump also called out Biden yesterday in a statement, saying that the entire situation in Afghanistan was a “disgrace”:
Joe Biden gets it wrong every time on foreign policy, and many other issues. Everyone knew he couldn’t handle the pressure. Even Obama’s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, said as much. He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him — a plan that protected our people and our property, and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against America. The withdrawal would be guided by facts on the ground.
After I took out ISIS, I established a credible deterrent. That deterrent is now gone. The Taliban no longer has fear or respect for America, or America’s power. What a disgrace it will be when the Taliban raises their flag over America’s Embassy in Kabul. This is complete failure through weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.
Former White House physician Ronny Jackson, who served in the role under both Presidents Obama and Trump, called out Biden as well yesterday, saying that if the president was unable to address the American people that he should think about resigning.
“OUTRAGEOUS! Biden needs to address the nation TONIGHT,” Jackson said. “If he’s not mentally capable of handling this crisis, he needs to resign IMMEDIATELY. America deserves better than this – OUR VETERANS DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS! Come out of hiding at Camp David and do your damn job!”
350,000 full-auto guns GIVEN TO TERRORISTS!!!
i don’t ever want to hear about gun control again...
President Trump, pls report from FL as Leader of US of Deplorables.
Biden and his followers have left the WH. We need a leader
REALITY CHECK-——NY Post Miranda Devine asked President Trump Sunday about the plan his administration had to get out of Afghanistan —which ultimately was obstructed by the same US generals who gave Biden a green light.
“We were going to not let people get slaughtered,” Trump said flatly. “I wanted to get out. But you have to get out safely and you have to get out with respect . . .
“We had all sorts of conditions . . . All civilians were going to come out before the military. Everyone should have been out before they took our military out . . .
“I was going to close this ridiculous embassy they spent a billion dollars on and move everybody out . . .
“I was going to blow up every military base [before we left]. I was going to take out every single piece of equipment. I said I don’t want anything left [apart from] leave each soldier a gun . . .
“Plus, I had a relationship with the Taliban where they knew they weren’t allowed to do this. They understood they were going to get hit very hard . . . What I had was conversations with the [Taliban] leadership where I said if you do anything we were going to hit them like they haven’t been hit before.”
Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who began negotiating with the Taliban in February 2020 to lay down conditions for a US withdrawal, has corroborated Trump’s version of events.
Pompeo was in the room when Trump warned the Taliban’s senior negotiator, Mullah Baradar, that if a single American was hurt or threatened the entire wrath of American power would rain down on them.
“We never trusted the Taliban,” he told Fox News Sunday. “We made abundantly clear . . . we weren’t going to allow them to just walk away from any deal that they had struck. We were going to go crush them, we were going to impose real costs on them. We weren’t going to let them take these provincial capitals. They understood that American power was going to come to their village, to their community, to their friends and family.”
You can bet the Taliban believed Trump would make good on his threat. (h/t Miranda Devine NY Post)
Trump says the truth again.
Burn!!!!
this one’s older, but I love the title of the current topic.
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Joe probably has no idea what happened over the weekend. Too busy sleeping.
Anyone who wanted to believe 'This is all on Trump and thank God the adults are here to clean it up' must be wringing their hands trying to figure out how to maintain their delusion.
Ask Soros or the Clintons or the Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
The first two questions to ask Dementiajoe are:
1. “Do you remember Afghanistan?”
2. “Are you aware that Afghanistan has fallen to the Taliban?”
Flatlinejoe’s likely answer to both questions is: “Can I still get my favorite ice cream cone?”
2+2=5......................
That’s an excellent point. The damn government couldn’t control its own guns.
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I like how it’s “women and children first” in that chivalrous culture.
seems strange all the military age men running after the plane in that picture.
The Biden Admin is in Panic Mode and are heavily sedated
Leave Joe Biden Alone!
> Now his Press Secretary checks out for vacation. <
In some respects that’s the craziest thing on your list. It would have taken only a second for someone to say, “Jen, this is important. We’ll need you here for the next couple of days.”
So either no one said that (weird), or she didn’t listen (also weird).
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