US President Joe Biden strongly encouraged Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to cook up the “perception” that the Taliban did not have the upper hand – “whether it’s true or not” – in a phone call that came only three weeks before the Islamist group took over the country, according to a leaked transcript detailed in the New York Post.
Biden spoke to Ghani for approximately 14 minutes on July 23. It was their last phone communication before the Taliban overthrew the Afghan government, throwing the country into panic as the US hastily withdrew American troops.
Most of the phone call consisted of Biden speaking about the Afghan government’s “perception” issue, according to the transcript of the audio, which was obtained by Reuters.
“I 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,” Biden told Ghani. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”
Biden urged Ghani to assemble the country’s top political figures – including former Afghan President Hamid Karzai – in a joint press conference supporting a new military strategy that would defeat the Taliban.
The American President remarked that such a measure would “change perception, and that will change an awful lot I think.”
While praising US-trained Afghan security forces, Biden offered help to the Afghan leader if he could put out a public plan that appeared to show he would be able to change course and defeat the Taliban.
“You clearly have the best military. You have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly capable of fighting well,” Biden said. “We will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is… And all the way through the end of August, and who knows what after that.”
Biden also offered to “continue to fight hard, diplomatically, politically, economically, to make sure your government not only survives, but is sustained and grows because it is clearly in the interest of the people of Afghanistan, that you succeed and you lead.”
On the day of the conversation, the Taliban had already begun its push to take over the country, having seized nearly half of the country’s major population centers. Weeks later, on August 15, the Taliban occupied Kabul.
Biden’s tone of voice during the call reportedly does not project that he believed the Afghan government was in danger of falling so suddenly a mere few weeks later.
When the Taliban took over Kabul, Ghani fled the city.
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“US President Joe Biden strongly encouraged Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to cook up the “perception” that the Taliban did not have the upper hand – “whether it’s true or not” –”
This disgraceful puppet president Biden and the dishonorable socialist Democrat Party revolves around and its philosophy is based on Control, Hate, Lies, Cons, Deceptions, Immorality and the lack of Integrity, Ethics or Honor. 🙁 🙁 🙁
THEY tried to impeach trump, for LESS THAN THIS..
“I 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,” Biden told Ghani. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”
Yep—that’s the Democrat trademark isn’t it, Joe—perception? There doesn’t have to be one shred of substance just as long as the perception is intact. That’s exactly how you attempt to fool us all over here, isn’t it, buddy? Talk smack with not a clue in the world as to what you are doing. The Taliban obviously didn’t buy into your perception BS—and guess what—neither do we. You’re a sham, Biden—incapable, incompetent, and unfit.
So, are the Dems going to investigate and analyze your phone call like they did Trump’s? Are you supposed to get a little payoff from that money that Ghani ran off with?
Impeach Biden
To Democrats, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant,
If the Democrats do not WANT to believe them.
Democrats will just make up their own Truth, Facts, Reality or History to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
Two words.
HELL
NO!
what a disgrace our government is.
This isn’t our government. Someone else made this government for us, to paraphrase the clean, articulate ONE.
Unless that theft is made right America is no more.
Nicely put..
Lyin Biden, a dementia laden , criminal communist. Biden should write a book: “How I Want To Destroy America And How I Want To Destroy The Freedoms The American White Supremacists Have”.
I get tired of writing this but, can you imagine the uproar if this had been Trump? Pelosi would have spit out her false teeth trying to speak up about this fast enough!
Articles of impeachment, and charges of treason, WOULD Already be getting voted on.
Baghdad Bob had nothing on Joseph The Lyin’ Fart.
Is Mumbles great or what???? SMDH…