Posted on 09/01/2021 10:25:55 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Republicans are tearing into President Biden's July 23 phone call with Ashraf Ghani, where he implored the Afghan leader to 'change the perception' and try and show the world they were beating the Taliban 'whether it is true or not.'
'I'm disgusted that President Biden lied to the world to try to make everyone think the Taliban wasn't taking over, when he knew they were rapidly gaining power. His lies cost us 13 American lives and Biden abandoned our allies when they needed us most,' Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., told DailyMail.com.
At least 170 people and 13 US troops were killed in a suicide bomb after the Taliban takeover as the US was evacuating Americans and allies in Kabul last week.
In a phone call transcript obtained by Reuters, Biden said the US would provide aid if Ghani could project to the world that he 'had a plan' for fighting the Taliban, while the Afghan army was being overrun.
Some say the call shows that Biden knew the situation was dire in Afghanistan way before the evacuation and flies in the face of claims from the administration that they had no idea the Taliban would take over so quickly. Other critics say Biden's call shows he is 'disconnected from the real world' as he didn't grasp Ghani's warning that 15,000 terrorists were about to 'invade' Afghanistan.
The White House is sticking to its story, with Chief of Staff Ron Klein telling MSNBC late Tuesday that no one in the administration knew the Taliban would take over Afghanistan in just 12 days.
Reuters have not revealed how they obtained the transcript. But they said they could not reach Ghani or any of his representatives - raising the prospects that it could have come from inside the White House.
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“raising the prospects that it could have come from inside the White House.”
Harris supporter, State Department, CIA, or someone else?
Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich.
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Maybe Michigan Republicans should have pushed back on the cheating in Detroit a little harder.
Instead they rubber-stamped it.
Release the transcript Joe! This would be a great question from Peter Doocy, Hey Jen, Trump was transparent and released the transcript, will Joe release the transcript to this call and if not what is he hiding?
Gullible demented Biden was just following the script his handlers gave him for the phone call. He knew nothing personally, his handlers knew all the lies in the script. Biden has to be impeached because he still believes the lies that have come out of his mouth.
Someone with a flicker of a conscience?
Why did they impeach President Trump? Was it Over a phone call?
#ReleaseTheTranscript
WHAT Republicans?? There are ‘Republicans’ in DC??
Whoopi. Whats the difference between Republicans and Democraps?
Republicans tear into President Biden’s July 23 phone call with Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan
Democraps impeached Trump for his phone call with President Zelensky of the Ukrane.
See the tagline.
Well, the GOP had very little to say until now but I guess the polling is SO bad that they need to start hammering Biden when clearly they do not want to.
>> Republicans are tearing into President Biden’s ...
All bark, and never a bite.
The GOP can GTH.
>> the GOP had very little to say until now
Because they’re feckless losers.
Yet the likes of Mitt Romney blame President Trump for the debacle in Afghanistan.
Do you see how craftily they defend themselves? “Chief of Staff Ron Klein telling MSNBC late Tuesday that no one in the administration knew the Taliban would take over Afghanistan in just 12 days.”
Of course they didn’t ‘know’ it would take the Taliban 12 days, no one could. But they might well have suspected it might be 10, 12, or 14 days or even less.
A more important question might be, did anyone in the administration seem to care.
🚨🚨🚨🚨 Per former Deputy Assistant SecDef Roger Pardo-Maurer, the DoD had foreknowledge of the Kabul bomber AND denied permission to fire to the Predator drone that had a lock on the bomber. pic.twitter.com/ZDh27drdwu— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 31, 2021
“Someone with a flicker of a conscience?”
Sad to say but my first response was to LOL.
To ME, this sounds like it came from the Harris side of the battle for the seat. They’ve been in overdrive with releasing as much damaging material as they can to try to get Biden out.
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