{"id":655056,"date":"2021-08-17T14:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=655056"},"modified":"2021-08-17T14:35:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T18:35:28","slug":"rep-lauren-boebert-defends-tweet-claiming-taliban-is-building-back-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-lauren-boebert-defends-tweet-claiming-taliban-is-building-back-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Lauren Boebert Defends Tweet Claiming Taliban Is \u2018Building Back Better\u2019"},"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%2Frep-lauren-boebert-defends-tweet-claiming-taliban-is-building-back-better%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=655056&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\/lauren-boebert-scaled-e1629223689818.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"42.057865731463\">\n<p>Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert is standing by her comment that the Taliban is \u201cbuilding back better\u201d than the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan President Ashraf Ghani <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/15\/taliban-fighters-enter-kabul-afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-flees\/\">fled<\/a> the country for Tajikistan on Sunday as Taliban fighters entered Kabul and the presidential palace, following a week in which Taliban fighters captured provincials capitols across the country. In response to the advance, which shocked the Biden administration, Boebert tweeted Monday, \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The Taliban are the only people building back better.<\/span>\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-biden-vietnam-war-saigon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: ANALYSIS: How The Taliban Takeover Of Afghanistan Became Biden\u2019s \u2018Fall Of Saigon\u2019 Moment)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.8571428571429\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Taliban are the only people building back better.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert\/status\/1427275592383205382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a difference between ending a war and running out of town.&nbsp;<span id=\":2d9.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">Leftists don\u2019t like my \u2018building back better\u2019 tweet because it\u2019s true,\u201d Boebert told the Daily Caller of her reference to President Joe Biden\u2019s campaign slogan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\":2d9.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Taliban has taken billions of dollars of American military equipment and will use it against us. This is what happens when our leaders put America last. It\u2019s a travesty. In 2021 America has seen decline while the Taliban is on the rise. Thanks, Joe Biden.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taliban fighters have been photographed holding American weapons and sitting in American tanks and helicopters. U.S. Strategic Command chief of staff Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/pentagon-united-states-military-weapons-equipment-taliban-afghanistan-joe-biden\/\">dodged<\/a> questions about what weapons the terrorist group may be able to access during a Monday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Taliban fighters are reportedly seizing privately-held firearms. \u201cWe understand people kept weapons for personal safety. They can now feel safe. We are not here to harm innocent civilians,\u201d an anonymous Taliban official reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/taliban-afghan-capital-kabul-start-collecting-weapons-civilians-2021-08-16\/\">told<\/a> Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Boebert, a gun-rights <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/02\/lauren-boebert-guns-capitol-letter-reps\/\">proponent<\/a>, was one of 16 Republican members of the House of Representatives to <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2021218\">vote<\/a> against a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/3985\/text?r=22&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill<\/a> that would expedite visa applications for Afghan translators and others who aided the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert is standing by her comment that the Taliban is \u201cbuilding back better\u201d than the U.S. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country for &#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-655056","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\/655056","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=655056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655056\/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=655056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}