SHE’S NOT EVEN GOING TO PRETEND TO CIRCLE BACK TO THAT: Jen Psaki Dodges Question About Damning Leaked Biden Call With Afghan President.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Joe Biden’s call to Afghan prez is impeachable: Devine.
Psst, Nancy Pelosi! Still looking for a phone call worth impeaching a president?
Do I have news for you.
Reuters has a bombshell report about a July phone call between Joe Biden and then-Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, in which the US president promises military aid in return for lies.
The “perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren’t going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” says Biden in the July 23 call. “And there’s a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”
Whether it is true or not.
No, things weren’t going well, three weeks after the US abandoned Bagram Airfield in the dead of night.
Biden’s solution was to create the “perception” that all was fine. He wanted to keep the illusion going long enough to cover his Aug. 31 self-imposed deadline to withdraw US troops and have a victory lap on September 11th, when he would preen as the first president to end the forever war.
“Whether it is true or not” seems like a good summary of the Biden Administration’s approach to, well, everything.