{"id":661480,"date":"2021-08-19T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=661480"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:06:46","slug":"biden-forgets-numerous-things-during-abc-news-interview-quote-effectively-ends-ability-to-blame-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-forgets-numerous-things-during-abc-news-interview-quote-effectively-ends-ability-to-blame-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Forgets Numerous Things During ABC News Interview; Quote Effectively Ends Ability To Blame Trump"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fbiden-forgets-numerous-things-during-abc-news-interview-quote-effectively-ends-ability-to-blame-trump%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=661480&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\/Biden-15.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden struggled during a mostly friendly interview with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos \u2014 who used to work for Democrat President Bill Clinton \u2014 about his chaotic and disastrous pullout of Afghanistan, which has left thousands of Americans trapped in a nation now controlled by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Biden claimed there was \u201cno consensus\u201d in his administration\u2019s intelligence reports about when Afghanistan might fall and that it was \u201clikely to be sometime by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><em>STEPHANOPOULOS: But your top military advisors warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: No, they didn\u2019t. It was split. Tha\u2013 that wasn\u2019t true. That wasn\u2019t true.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>STEPHANOPOULOS: They didn\u2019t tell you that they wanted troops to stay?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: No. Not at \u2014 not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops. They didn\u2019t argue against that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>STEPHANOPOULOS: So no one told \u2014 your military advisors did not tell you, \u201cNo, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It\u2019s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: No. No one said that to me that I can recall.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6792452830189\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNo, no one said that to me that I can recall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Biden may have just forgotten that people told him this was going to be a disaster?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i1Fokv5gHs\">pic.twitter.com\/i1Fokv5gHs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NathanBrandWA\/status\/1428335526071910409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-wanted-to-leave-afghanistan-he-knew-the-risks-11629214842\">reported<\/a>, however, that Biden\u2019s \u201ctop generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, urged Mr. Biden to keep a force of about 2,500 troops, the size he inherited, while seeking a peace agreement between warring Afghan factions, to help maintain stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who has sought to blame Trump for the situation in Afghanistan, effectively ended his ability to blame the former president when he told Stephanopoulos that he would have essentially done the same thing again, even if Trump had not dealt with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em>STEPHANOPOULOS: So would you have withdrawn troops like this even if President Trump had not made that deal with the Taliban?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: I would\u2019ve tried to figure out how to withdraw those troops, yes, because look, George. There is no good time to leave Afghanistan. Fifteen years ago would\u2019ve been a problem, 15 years from now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.223826714801\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">STEPHANOPOLOUS: &#8220;Would you have withdrawn troops like this even if President Trump had not made that deal with the Taliban?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: &#8220;I would have tried to figure out how to withdraw those troops. Yes.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MIyvrZoJoA\">pic.twitter.com\/MIyvrZoJoA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/1428315935874584585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden claimed that \u201cno one\u2019s being killed right now\u201d and falsely that disturbing images out of the area were from last week when, in fact, they happened this week.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.360153256705\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8: Stephanopoulos says there&#8217;s still a lot of pandemonium at the Kabul airport. <\/p>\n<p>Biden: &#8220;But look, no one&#8217;s being killed right now,&#8221; then *literally knocks on wood!* What?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MNHuyHle8H\">pic.twitter.com\/MNHuyHle8H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1428350736459603969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9152542372881\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden dismisses Afghans falling out of planes by saying \u201cthat was 4-5 days ago.\u201d It was 2 days ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jWaxaHXsMT\">pic.twitter.com\/jWaxaHXsMT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1428108235605635073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden also seemed unaware that the U.S. has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/27\/troops-to-stay-in-syria-biden-500848\">900 troops<\/a> stationed in Syria:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>Al Qaeda, ISIS, they metastasize. There\u2019s a significantly greater threat to the United States from Syria. There\u2019s a significantly greater threat from East Africa. There\u2019s significant greater threat to other places in the world than it is from the mountains of Afghanistan. And we have maintained the ability to have an over-the-horizon capability to take them out. We\u2019re\u2013 <strong>we don\u2019t have military in Syria to make sure that we\u2019re gonna be protected<\/strong>\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.5067567567568\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden: \u201cWe don\u2019t have military in Syria.&#8221; The U.S. has 900 troops. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zXywawGsD4\">pic.twitter.com\/zXywawGsD4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1428324788045504519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden claimed he thinks that the Taliban is \u201cgoing through sort of an existential crisis about\u201d whether \u201cthey want to be recognized by the international community as being a legitimate government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure I would\u2019ve predicted, George, nor would you or anyone else, that when we decided to leave, that they\u2019d provide safe passage for Americans to get out,\u201d Biden claimed as thousands of Americans remained trapped on the ground with the Biden administration saying that they could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-admin-tells-americans-trapped-in-afghanistan-it-cannot-guarantee-their-safety-to-airport\">not guarantee<\/a> their safety to the airport.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.431693989071\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden: The Taliban faces an \u201cexistential crisis\u201d; \u201cthey care about whether they have food to eat, whether they have an income that can make any money &amp; run an economy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adds, \u201cno one\u201d would\u2019ve predicted the Taliban would agree \u201cto provide safe passage for Americans to get out\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VdWUR344VQ\">pic.twitter.com\/VdWUR344VQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1428323458543456258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden struggled during a mostly friendly interview with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos \u2014 who used to work for Democrat President Bill Clinton \u2014 about his chaotic and &#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-661480","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\/661480","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=661480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661480\/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=661480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}