It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. STEPHANOPOULOS: So no one told - your military advisors did not tell you, “No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. Not at - not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops. STEPHANOPOULOS: They didn’t tell you that they wanted troops to stay?īIDEN: No. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.īIDEN: No, they didn’t. STEPHANOPOULOS: But your top military advisors warned against withdrawing on this timeline. Joe Biden claims his military advisors did not warn against his withdrawal timeline. He could have left more troops in Afghanistan until his new August 31 deadlineĦ. In April, Biden broke Trump’s deal with the Taliban announcing that he would withdraw troops on September 11 before changing his mind in July and moving up the withdrawal date to August 31. After breaking the May 1 deadline, Biden kept withdrawing troops. Do I say we’re staying? And do you think we would not have to put a hell of a lot more troops? B - you know, we had hundreds - we had tens of thousands of troops there before. Less than two months after I elected to office, I was sworn in, all of a sudden, I have a May 1 deadline. Biden claims the timeline for withdrawal from Afghanistan was firm, but he changed it multiple times.īIDEN: I got into office, George. In this photograph taken on May 3, 2017, Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers train at the Kabul Military training centre (KMTC) on the outskirts of Kabul. When you had the government of Afghanistan, the leader of that government get in a plane and taking off and going to another country, when you saw the significant collapse of the ta - of the - Afghan troops we had trained - up to 300,000 of them just leaving their equipment and taking off, that was - you know, I’m not - this - that - that’s what happened. When the - when the Taliban - let me back - put it another way. STEPHANOPOULOS: So when you look at what’s happened over the last week, was it a failure of intelligence, planning, execution or judgment?īIDEN: Look, I don’t think it was a fa - look, it was a simple choice, George. Biden defends ‘withdrawal’ from Afghanistan as a “simple choice” while also surging troops back into the region But no one said it was gonna take over then when it was bein’ asked,” he said to Stephanopoulos.īiden never made that claim, and actually repeatedly denied that it was inevitable.ģ.
“Well, by the end of the year, I said that’s that was - that was a real possibility. Biden claims he always said there was a “real possibility” that the Taliban would seize control of Afghanistan NEW: Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances w/ Ģ. They did not - they didn’t - did not reach that conclusion,” he repeated. “That’s not true,” he said when a reporter told him that the intelligence community had assessed the Afghan government would collapse. Stephanopoulos was right. In July, Biden adamantly denied that intelligence agencies estimated a Taliban takeover.
You just said flat out, ‘It’s highly unlikely the Taliban would take over,'” he said. “But you didn’t put a timeline on it when you said it was highly unlikely.
Stephanopoulos called out Biden’s lie about his remarks in July. I think you’re gonna see - the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others speaking about this later today. The idea that the tal - and then it goes further on, even as late as August. 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. Was the intelligence wrong, or did you downplay it?īIDEN: I think - there was no consensus.
Back in July, you said a Taliban takeover was highly unlikely. Biden claims there was no consensus among intelligence agencies that the Taliban would take control of Afghanistan Here is a list of where Biden went wrong:ġ. 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.īut the president struggled and frequently stammered throughout the interview contradicting his previous statements and getting basic facts wrong.
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