How can any American believe anything President Biden says after lying so blatantly about an evacuation to Afghanistan that he claims it was an “extraordinary success”?
Lie: “Americans understand that we will try to do this before August 31,” President Biden told George Stephanopoulos on ABC News on August 19. “And if there are American citizens left, we’ll stay until we get them all out.” He reiterated the promise of the next day at the White House: “But make it clear to me, any American who wants to return home, we will take you home.”
TRUTH: Even Biden himself admits that Americans remain trapped in Afghanistan when he withdrew the last U.S. forces before arriving home. “Ninety percent of Americans in Afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave,” he said Tuesday. The head of the United States Central Command, General Frank McKenzie, confirmed the day before that some Americans trying to escape could not reach Kabul airport, and the last five planes took off without a single American on board. .
Lie: “We are making the same commitment,” Biden said on Aug. 20 to Afghans who helped America in the war effort, “those Afghans who have worked alongside us, have served alongside us, have entered into combat with us and have provided invaluable help to us, ”he said. “They’re just as important, almost.”
TRUTH: On Wednesday, a senior State Department official confessed to NBC News that “most of the Afghans who helped” the United States “did not leave Kabul.” The officer did not have the number of special immigrant visa applicants remaining in Afghanistan, but said “it is most of them.”
Lie: “The United States maintains the commitment we have made to these people and includes other vulnerable Afghans, such as women leaders and journalists,” Biden said Aug. 20.
TRUTH: The Biden team did not even ensure that American journalists reached safety. Five hundred journalists from the United States Agency for Global Media, who worked for outlets such as Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, and their relatives were left at the mercy of the Taliban, who have already begun intimidate Afghan journalists. Sources told USA Today that the blame was on “poor communication” and “the Taliban did not clean them up to leave.” Only 50 U.S.-sponsored journalists came out thanks to other governments, not ours.
Lie: Asked by a reporter on July 8, “You see some parallels between this retreat and what happened in Vietnam,” Biden was outraged. “None at all. Zero “.
TRUTH: Not even a month after Biden uttered those words, images came from Kabul of a U.S. helicopter flying over the U.S. embassy. About 200 Americans fled the Baron Hotel in Chinooks when they could not reach Kabul Airport, just 200 meters away, otherwise.
Lie: Biden promised to continue providing air support to the Afghan army. “I will insist on continuing to maintain the commitments we made to provide close air support, making sure its air force works and is operational,” he said on August 10th. He made the promise to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in a July 23 phone call that was leaked on Wednesday. “We will continue to provide strong air support,” Biden said. “And until the end of August and who knows what next.”
TRUTH: The Wall Street Journal reported on August 14: “Following President Biden’s decision to withdraw, the United States withdrew its air support, intelligence and contractors serving aircraft and helicopters from the United States. Afghanistan: That meant the Afghan army just couldn’t operate anymore. ” In this way, Biden’s repeated claim that the Afghan army simply folded because it did not want to fight is paid off.
Lie: “Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government is likely to collapse,” a journalist told the president on July 8, to which a Biden advocate responded, “This is not true.” He added that “it is very unlikely that it is likely that the Taliban will dominate it even if it owns the whole country.”
TRUTH: In fact, Biden knew the Taliban was advancing the Afghan government and asked Ghani to lie about it. The perception “is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said. “And there’s a need, whether it’s true or not, to project a different image.” Ghani gave him the facts: “We are facing a large-scale invasion, made up of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10 to 15,000 international terrorists, mostly Pakistanis launched into it.” Biden ignored them.