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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Not only did they know, they absolutely should have known, and the Afghan president basically told Biden on July 23 they would. He said something like “they have tens of thousands on the march, and thousands more are streaming in from Pakistan to support them”.
Biden was told from the Afghan President and Biden didn’t care. All he cared about was the perception. The results of this mindset speak for themselves.
Biden lied and 13 died.
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