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President Joe Biden sat for an interview with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday to discuss the disaster unfolding in Afghanistan and his failure to prepare for the Taliban to seize control of the government.
But the president struggled and frequently stammered throughout the interview contradicting his previous statements and getting basic facts wrong.
Here is a list of where Biden went wrong:
1. Biden claims there was no consensus among intelligence agencies that the Taliban would take control of Afghanistan
From the transcript:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s get right to it. Back in July, you said a Taliban takeover was highly unlikely. Was the intelligence wrong, or did you downplay it?
BIDEN: I think — there was no consensus. If you go back and look at the intelligence reports, they said that it’s more likely to be sometime by the end of the year. The idea that the tal — and then it goes further on, even as late as August. I think you’re gonna see — the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others speaking about this later today.
Stephanopoulos called out Biden’s lie about his remarks in July. --->LOTS MORE HERE
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said Thursday President Joe Biden is “unfit” to be commander in chief after his administration failed to evacuate American citizens from Afghanistan.
“Incompetent. Unhinged. Incoherent. Unfit,” Scott tweeted in relation to Biden’s claim that the United States could not have “gotten out without chaos ensuing”:
Incompetent. Unhinged. Incoherent. Unfit. https://t.co/K8o8NB47xc
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) August 19, 2021
“We’re going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow, there’s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Wednesday in a taped interview. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories:
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