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Biden Admin Demands Americans Pay $2,000 for Flight out of Kabul or Live Under Taliban Rule: Report
https://www.westernjournal.com ^ | By Michael Austin August 19, 2021 at 2:48pm

Posted on 08/20/2021 5:35:07 AM PDT by Red Badger

Did President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan leave you stranded in a terrorist-controlled country?

Hopefully, you have $2,000 to cough up to the U.S. government.

If not, it might be wise to brush up on Sharia law, because you might be stuck for a while.

🚨🚨: Are American citizens actually being forced to pay for their own evacuation out of #Afghanistan? pic.twitter.com/S73W3dbRPB

— John Cooper (@thejcoop) August 19, 2021

Trending: Biden Administration Announces It Will Cancel Student Debt, But Only for a Certain Group of People This shocking revelation was buried deep in a Politico article published on Thursday.

“Even though U.S. officials tell NatSec Daily and others that evacuation flights from Kabul will be free, people trying to catch a plane in the Afghan capital say differently,” the outlet reported.

“One person said State Department staff were seeking large payments — up to $2,000 — from American passengers and even more from non-U.S. citizens.”

Politico asked the State Department if this was, in fact, true.

In response, an official spokesperson didn’t deny it.

“U.S. law requires that evacuation assistance to private U.S. citizens or third country nationals be provided ‘on a reimbursable basis to the maximum extent practicable.’ The situation is extremely fluid, and we are working to overcome obstacles as they arise,” the spokesperson told Politico.

This sort of doublespeak non-answer might as well be an admission of guilt.

Thanks to Biden’s overly hasty plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, between 10,000 and 15,000 Americans have been left trapped in the country under Taliban rule.

When chaos began to reign in Afghanistan following the withdrawal, those Americans received a less-than-promising message from the Biden administration.

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1 posted on 08/20/2021 5:35:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Did we do this to Americans caught in Germany, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, The Gulf, or Iraq?


2 posted on 08/20/2021 5:37:17 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: Red Badger
Hey, there is nothing free in life kids.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

3 posted on 08/20/2021 5:38:25 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Red Badger

Sure be nice to here some REPUBLICANS bitch about this. Does ANYONE think that the Trump would be getting a pass here?

Hey TED CRUZ, you back from Mexico yet? If so, how about SAYING SOMETHING here?


4 posted on 08/20/2021 5:38:37 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Red Badger

*unless you get 10% to the big guy, then things magically happen....


5 posted on 08/20/2021 5:39:05 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Red Badger

But for illegal aliens: free airflight to wherever you want!

And housing

And food

And clothing

Etc.


6 posted on 08/20/2021 5:39:05 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: farming pharmer

Iran?...................10% for the Big Guy..................


7 posted on 08/20/2021 5:39:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

10% to the “big guy”, with choice of little girls, too?


8 posted on 08/20/2021 5:39:17 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Red Badger

If true, this is the most tone-deaf move ever by any administration.

SMH


9 posted on 08/20/2021 5:39:47 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Red Badger

Did the Afghans on that C-17 pay?


10 posted on 08/20/2021 5:41:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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To: Red Badger

Coyote-in-Chief.


11 posted on 08/20/2021 5:41:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Red Badger

Fake news


12 posted on 08/20/2021 5:41:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

Just say you’re an illegal alien and want to vote for dims....you’ll be here in 24 hours.


13 posted on 08/20/2021 5:41:37 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Red Badger

The way the regime prints and burns cash what’s $2000?! The thinking is something like this, “these individuals were probably promoting democracy or working with the military. Do we really want that type coming back to America?”.


14 posted on 08/20/2021 5:42:14 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Red Badger

He’s going to spend much more than 2000 on each Afghan “refugee” that he brings into the USA.

A government’s first obligation is to its citizens. Other countries know that and are evacuating their citizens. The USA, under the puppet of the chicoms and the taliban, has abandoned US citizens in Afghanistan.

One more block falls. There are a few more that they must topple before the USA falls entirely into the hands of the hate-America complex (composed of chicoms, islamists, BLM, antifa).

When the last block does finally fall, remember that obama was the brains, soros the pocketbook, china the impetus, islam the threat, and biden the willing puppet.

Bought your prayer rug yet?


15 posted on 08/20/2021 5:42:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: Red Badger

Call me skeptical.


16 posted on 08/20/2021 5:43:16 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: KC_Lion
Hey, there is nothing free in life kids.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

Just have your family buy one of Hunter's paintings and you're good to go!

17 posted on 08/20/2021 5:43:43 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden is a squinty-eyed turnip brain)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

If true, this is the most tone-deaf move ever by any administration.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

It’s also just plain EVIL and right out of their play book ... ask the 3 guys who barely managed to survive Benghazi despite the DemonRat administration.


18 posted on 08/20/2021 5:43:51 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: Red Badger
Did the US government send them there? If so, it should be responsible for their safe return.

If not them, then who? Their employer? Shouldn't they be responsible, or at least feel responsible?

19 posted on 08/20/2021 5:48:19 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: libertylover
Now, now, Biden's State Department is shipping the following book to the stranded Americans - free of charge!


20 posted on 08/20/2021 5:48:31 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden is a squinty-eyed turnip brain)
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