President Joe Biden's low approval ratings and reelection numbers have long been the subject of commentaries and even jokes. But things weren't always this way.
His administration lost the electorate’s confidence at a specific moment. It was August 2021, and it was because of his disastrous handling of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.Biden had gone on television earlier, on July 8, 2021, to boast that he had finally achieved the right conditions for withdrawal. He reassured the public that it would go smoothly. The Taliban would not rapidly overwhelm Afghan army forces and cause trouble for the retreating Americans.
As this happened, the White House was spinning furiously, making excuses, casting all the blame it could upon the former president, doing anything possible to avoid accountability for what was very clearly Biden's own fault.
"It’s just like what we’re doing in Ukraine," he said."We give the Ukraine artillery ammunition, Stinger anti-air missiles, Javelin anti-tank. It’s their stuff at that point, not the Americans’. It’s their stuff. That stuff belonged to the Afghans. And so this idea, this argument is just ludicrous that we left millions of dollars of stuff in Afghanistan. We didn’t."
Biden had gone on television earlier, on July 8, 2021, to boast that he had finally achieved the right conditions for withdrawal. He reassured the public that it would go smoothly. The Taliban would not rapidly overwhelm Afghan army forces and cause trouble for the retreating Americans. As this happened, the White House was spinning furiously, making excuses, casting all the blame it could upon the former president, doing anything possible to avoid accountability for what was very clearly Biden's own fault.
"It’s just like what we’re doing in Ukraine," he said."We give the Ukraine artillery ammunition, Stinger anti-air missiles, Javelin anti-tank. It’s their stuff at that point, not the Americans’. It’s their stuff. That stuff belonged to the Afghans. And so this idea, this argument is just ludicrous that we left millions of dollars of stuff in Afghanistan. We didn’t."
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