{"id":707623,"date":"2021-09-01T19:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=707623"},"modified":"2021-09-01T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T23:51:06","slug":"psaki-refuses-to-address-biden-allegedly-pressuring-afghan-president-to-make-dubious-claims-about-fight-vs-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-refuses-to-address-biden-allegedly-pressuring-afghan-president-to-make-dubious-claims-about-fight-vs-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Refuses To Address Biden Allegedly Pressuring Afghan President To Make Dubious Claims About Fight Vs Taliban"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fpsaki-refuses-to-address-biden-allegedly-pressuring-afghan-president-to-make-dubious-claims-about-fight-vs-taliban%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=707623&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\/09\/Psaki-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused during Wednesday\u2019s press briefing to address an explosive report from Reuters this week that said Democrat President Joe Biden pressured Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani during a July phone call to make false claims about the nation\u2019s fight against the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>In the call, Biden offered aid if Ghani could publicly project he had a plan to control the spiraling situation in Afghanistan. \u201cWe will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is,\u201d Biden said. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In much of the call, Biden focused on what he called the Afghan government\u2019s \u201cperception\u201d problem. \u201cI need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the call, Ghani reportedly said that he was facing a \u201cfull-scale invasion, composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and at least 10-15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis thrown into this.\u201d When the call happened, the Taliban had already seized control of approximately half of the country\u2019s district centers.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki was pressed on the issue during Wednesday\u2019s press conference. \u201cI\u2019m not going to get into private diplomatic conversations or leaked transcripts of phone calls,\u201d Psaki answered in-part the first time she was asked about the call.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3227848101266\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sramosABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SRamosABC<\/a> asks Jen Psaki about the Reuters report of a call b\/w Biden and Afghan President Ghani in which both &#8220;appeared completely unaware that the Taliban would take over&#8221; and would offer spin that &#8220;Afghan forces were still in control.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RSQ5Eqwkau\">pic.twitter.com\/RSQ5Eqwkau<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1433143445368020993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWas the president in any way pushing a false narrative in that call with the Afghan President?\u201d a second reporter asked Psaki later during the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s pretty clear, again, I\u2019m not going to go into details of a private conversation,\u201d Psaki responded.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.645669291339\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I am not going to go into the details of a private conversation,\u201d Jen Psaki says when asked about a leaked call in which Biden pressured Afghan&#8217;s president to claim the fight against the Taliban was going good \u201cwhether it is true or not\u201d in exchange for aid from the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/keCOK2OzPD\">pic.twitter.com\/keCOK2OzPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1433188446936305665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 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>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused during Wednesday\u2019s press briefing to address an explosive report from Reuters this week that said Democrat President Joe Biden pressured Afghanistan President Ashraf &#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-707623","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\/707623","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=707623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707623\/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=707623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}