EXCLUSIVE: A political group that supported former President Trump during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns criticizes President Biden’s handling of the rocky retreat from the United States and the evacuation of Afghanistan last month.
The Great America PAC, which has spent more than $ 50 million since 2016 in support of Trump’s campaigns and presidency, released a national cable television commercial this week accusing Biden of “surrendering” to Afghanistan .
In a 30-second ad, first shared with Fox News, Marine Corps veteran Chad Robichaux tells the camera that “the men and women I fought with in Afghanistan, we risked our lives with pride, for freedom, for our country “. because we thought that in the end our sacrifices could count for something. “
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Robichaux, the founder and president of an organization that helps veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), then stresses that “after 20 years we are abandoning Americans behind enemy lines. We are begging the Taliban for mercy.” .We “He surrenders. What is it for, Mr. President? “
The political action committee tells Fox News that it is spending five modest figures to initially run the site, with the potential to spend more in the coming weeks. Great America PAC adds that it aims to help choose pro-Trump candidates in the mid-2022 election, as it also tries to defeat Biden’s agenda.
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The president has been facing a barrage of bipartisan criticism for weeks over his hasty handling of evacuation efforts at Kabul International Airport to transport the devastated Americans and their Afghan allies from the Asian country. by the war, after the lightening of Afghanistan. by repressive Taliban forces.
Although the president has repeatedly declared the withdrawal and evacuation a success (the United States aired about 120,000 people, including more than 5,500 Americans, after the fall of Kabul by the end of August), he has been accused by Republicans and some Democrats of underestimating the Taliban. and overestimating the strength of the now-collapsed Afghan government and the Afghan military.
Biden has pointed fingers at his predecessor in the White House. The Trump administration in February last year reached an agreement with the Taliban calling for all U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan in May 2021. Trump, during his surveillance, reduced northern forces. -Americans at their lowest level in Afghanistan in two decades. And last year the Afghan government released thousands of Taliban prisoners, many of whom probably took up arms again against U.S.-backed forces.
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But Biden, who reversed many of Trump’s policies by taking office in January, did not dismiss Trump’s deal with the Taliban, although he extended the U.S. withdrawal deadline until the end of August.
Trump has repeatedly criticized his successor in the White House for handling the exit from Afghanistan. On Saturday, during a stop at a New York City police station to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the former president accused Biden of “grave incompetence.”
Great America PAC appears to be the second group to issue a presidential announcement about Afghanistan.
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Trump America’s Save America PAC rose two weeks ago with a TV ad titled “Failure,” which uses a montage of video clips and still photos to criticize Biden. The spot, backed by a very modest ad purchase, appeared briefly on cable TV.