{"id":647841,"date":"2021-08-15T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=647841"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:06:16","slug":"joe-biden-hammered-for-hiding-at-camp-david-while-afghanistan-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-hammered-for-hiding-at-camp-david-while-afghanistan-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Hammered For \u2018Hiding\u2019 At Camp David While Afghanistan Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-hammered-for-hiding-at-camp-david-while-afghanistan-collapses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=647841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Joe-Biden-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Critics hammered President Joe Biden on Sunday for his silence and absence from Washington, D.C., as Taliban militants overrun Kabul and takeover Afghanistan for the first time in two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Biden ordered a complete pullout of the U.S. from Afghanistan in April. In the past week, the Taliban has conquered multiple major cities across the country and entered the nation\u2019s capital of Kabul. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thats-it-its-over-afghan-president-and-core-team-flown-out-of-afghanistan\">fled<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday morning, all but sealing the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>While the Taliban have blitzed across Afghanistan in the wake of U.S. military forces pulling out, Biden has been absent from Washington. The president left the capital on Thursday for Camp David, the presidential retreat, and has been there since. Biden, notably, did not take questions from reporters about Afghanistan before he left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is Joe Biden in hiding? He should immediately address the nation and answer for the catastrophic situation in Afghanistan. Conference calls between cabinet secretaries and senators don\u2019t cut it in a crisis,\u201d Sen Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1426922151148404736\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s in crisis. Afghanistan\u2019s in chaos. Why\u2019s Joe Biden on vacation?\u201d Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1426963534991216651\">posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) added: \u201cOn the conference call briefing for members of Congress with Biden officials. It\u2019s clear the Biden administration was caught unprepared, didn\u2019t anticipate this catastrophe and the President is hiding &amp; asleep at the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden defended himself in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/08\/14\/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-afghanistan\/\">statement<\/a> released on Saturday as the Taliban were closing in on the capital city of Kabul. In the 600-word statement, he announced an additional surge of U.S. troops into Afghanistan to facilitate that American pullout and several other steps the U.S. is taking to avoid American casualties. Biden also blamed former President Donald Trump for the chaos of the U.S. pulling out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor\u2014which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9\/11 of 2019\u2014that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on U.S. Forces. Shortly before he left office, he also drew U.S. Forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500,\u201d Biden said. \u201cTherefore, when I became President, I faced a choice\u2014follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our Forces and our allies\u2019 Forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country\u2019s civil conflict. I was the fourth President to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan\u2014two Republicans, two Democrats. I would not, and will not, pass this war onto a fifth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the White House tweeted a photo of Biden in a situation room at Camp David, listening intently as he was briefed about the \u201cdrawdown\u201d in Afghanistan. The tweet does not mention the deteriorating situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.387640449438\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This morning, the President and Vice President met with their national security team and senior officials to hear updates on the draw down of our civilian personnel in Afghanistan, evacuations of SIV applicants and other Afghan allies, and the ongoing security situation in Kabul. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U7IpK3Hyj8\">pic.twitter.com\/U7IpK3Hyj8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1426975024750211074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Afghanistan government has collapsed, effectively cementing the Taliban\u2019s rule over the country, the first time the Taliban has been in such a position in the past two decades since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001. The Taliban is expected to announce that Afghanistan is now the \u201cIslamic Emirate of Afghanistan\u201d on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the diplomats and American staff in Afghanistan were evacuated by helicopter overnight and taken to the Kabul airport where they await military flights from the region, in scenes that were reminiscent of the final evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taliban-enter-kabul-as-afghan-government-collapses-u-s-embassy-lowers-flag\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported. \u201cThe U.S. Embassy lowered its flag as officials moved their diplomatic operations to Kabul airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics hammered President Joe Biden on Sunday for his silence and absence from Washington, D.C., as Taliban militants overrun Kabul and takeover Afghanistan for the first time in two decades.Biden &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}