{"id":727432,"date":"2021-09-07T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=727432"},"modified":"2021-09-07T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T20:20:39","slug":"wapo-columnist-says-biden-is-focusing-on-hurricane-relief-because-ida-was-the-only-disaster-he-didnt-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-columnist-says-biden-is-focusing-on-hurricane-relief-because-ida-was-the-only-disaster-he-didnt-create\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Columnist Says Biden Is Focusing On Hurricane Relief Because Ida Was \u2018The Only Disaster He Didn\u2019t Create\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\">36<\/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%2Fwapo-columnist-says-biden-is-focusing-on-hurricane-relief-because-ida-was-the-only-disaster-he-didnt-create%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=727432&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\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-2.39.56-PM-e1631044776494.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen claimed Tuesday that President Joe Biden was focusing on Hurricane Ida because it was the only disaster not of his own making.<\/p>\n<p>Thiessen and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany joined host Martha MacCallum on Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Story\u201d to discuss the president\u2019s dipping poll numbers.<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/07\/markwayne-mullin-state-department-sabotage-afghanistan-rescue-took-credit-when-worked\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Absolutely A Lie\u2019: GOP Rep. Says State Department Tried To Sabotage Afghanistan Rescue, Then Took Credit When It Worked)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>MacCallum introduced her guests and mentioned the ongoing efforts to get American citizens and Afghan allies out of Taliban-controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/07\/john-roberts-apologizes-laughing-michael-waltz-biden-accountability-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghanistan<\/a>, asking McEnany whether she thought the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/03\/joe-biden-administration-blame-pentagon-homeland-security-afghan-forces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden administration<\/a> would be able to steer the media away from that story and onto something that was more favorable for the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, they won\u2019t be able to,\u201d McEnany replied, saying that it was very telling to see officials refer to the Taliban as \u201cAfghan partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won\u2019t be able to turn from this. He\u2019s trying to distract us. You know it\u2019s bad when he\u2019s distracting us with inflation and a COVID resurgence. That\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to do,\u201d McEnany continued. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to flip the scripts but they will not be able to. Polling shows Americans care too much deeply about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacCallum turned the question to Thiessen, noting that Biden\u2019s poll numbers had dropped off just since June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s trying to focus on the storm because it\u2019s the only disaster he didn\u2019t create. The southern border, he created. Afghanistan, he created. The COVID response, right now he\u2019s creating. So of course, he wants to shift the blame,\u201d Thiessen replied. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to be able to shift the blame because of the subject \u2014 because Afghanistan is not going to cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thiessen went on to say that the first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/06\/antony-blinken-will-testify-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hearings<\/a> on what went wrong in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/07\/joe-biden-americans-stranded-afghanistan-taliban-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghanistan<\/a> were set to begin in the next few weeks \u2014 and added that the issue was likely to bleed into discussions on domestic policy, like the upcoming defense spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, Afghanistan is not going to cooperate, because one, we have hundreds of Americans \u2014 at least 100 Americans \u2014 and certainly thousands of American allies and permanent residents who are trapped behind enemy lines by the choice of the president. He ordered the last plane to leave knowing that they were left behind enemy lines,\u201d Thiessen concluded. \u201cNow they\u2019re hiding and as he goes to Ground Zero to celebrate \u2014 or to mark the anniversary of 9\/11 \u2014 while the bells are ringing at Ground Zero, they\u2019re going to be hiding from Taliban death squads because of Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen claimed Tuesday that President Joe Biden was focusing on Hurricane Ida because it was the only disaster not of his own making.Thiessen and former White &#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-727432","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\/727432","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=727432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727432\/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=727432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}