Senator Ben Sass criticizes the president Joe Biden On Sunday, the United States withdrew from the chaos in Afghanistan. The Nebraska Republican listed the “shameful lies after the shameful lies” that the commander-in-chief talked about in recent days.
The Biden administration, and the previous administration of the former president Donald Trump, Have Face severe criticism On the issue of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan Taliban This month quickly regained control of the country.Although Biden is Supervision withdrawalThe peace agreement with the Taliban was signed in February 2020 during Trump’s tenure in the White House.Sass talked about what was happening Fox News Sunday.
“We have a national security crisis. It persists. We have a lot of Americans in danger. We have a lot of people. We have made promises outside of the airport wires. It is shameful that you hear the president say one shameful lie after another. Lies this week,” Sass told anchor Chris Wallace. Republican lawmakers continue to list these inaccurate statements.
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“When he said that the Americans had no problems at the checkpoint, it was not true. When they said they had no intelligence to know this would happen, it was not true. When they said that Al Qaeda was dead, it was not true. When they It’s not true to say they have contingency plans,” the senator from Nebraska asserted.
“We still have a lot to do. We have a lot of people in danger right now,” Sass said.
The Republican congressman said that Biden needs to “stand up” as commander-in-chief. He was critical of the deadline set by Biden to complete the withdrawal on August 31. “August 31 is a stupid, arbitrary, and politically driven deadline,” Sass said. “The Taliban need to know that they will not determine the timeline of American life.”
As Sass explained, Biden made a series of apparently inaccurate statements on the situation in Afghanistan.
The President told reporters on Friday, “As far as we know, Taliban checkpoints allow people who show American passports to pass.” However, there were reports that some Americans had problems passing through these checkpoints. A State Department spokesperson later confirmed on Friday. This fact.
As early as July, Biden dismissed reporters’ questions about intelligence reports, which suggested that with the withdrawal of the United States, Afghanistan would soon fall into the hands of the Taliban. “That’s not true. They didn’t-they didn’t-didn’t come to that conclusion,” Biden insisted on July 8 The reporter asked about the press conference at the time of the intelligence report predicting the Taliban’s regaining control.
On Friday, Biden also asserted that Al Qaeda had “disappeared” from Afghanistan, saying that the United States had achieved its goals in the country.But a report from the summer United Nations Explain that al-Qaeda is still active in nearly half of Afghanistan’s provinces.Secretary of State Anthony winked recognize Fox News Sunday Before SARS was interviewed, the country still had members of Al Qaeda.
Peace agreement Taliban Signed during Trump’s tenure in the White House in February 2020. The agreement sets the deadline for withdrawal as May 1. After Biden took office, he postponed the date to September 11, and then moved it forward to August 31. But the Taliban almost regained complete control of the country last Sunday-two weeks before the deadline for Biden’s withdrawal.
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