In the biggest non-shocking news of the day, Joe Biden is a lying dog-faced pony soldier. During the illegitimate president’s disastrous Afghanistan pull-out, he repeatedly claimed that none of his military advisors recommend that he leave 2,500 troops to stabilize the country. Today, the top Pentagon brass testified that they most certainly told Biden to leave the troops in Afghanistan.
As Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in late August, Joe Biden did what he thought would be a softball interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:
STEPHANOPOULOS: But your top military advisors warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.
BIDEN: No, they didn’t. It was split. Tha– that wasn’t true. That wasn’t true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: They didn’t tell you that they wanted troops to stay?
BIDEN: No. Not at — not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops. They didn’t argue against that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no one told — your military advisors did not tell you, “No, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It’s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that”?
BIDEN: No. No one said that to me that I can recall.
That’s 3 times in a row that Biden denied his military advisors warned him to leave 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
And yet, his top military advisors testified on Capitol Hill today that they absolutely told him to leave troops in Afghanistan.
Head of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie was asked if he recommended to Biden that troops be left in Afghanistan:
“I won’t share my personal recommendation to the president, but I will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation and I recommended that we maintain 2,500 troops in Afghanistan,” said McKenzie.
That’s a weird way of saying he made that recommendation to Biden, but clearly he did.
“I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and eventually the Afghan government,” McKenzie added.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley also testified that his recommendation to Biden was, “back in the fall of 2020, and remained consistent throughout, that we should keep a steady state of 2,500 and it could bounce up to 3,500, maybe, something like that, in order to move toward a negotiated solution.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was asked if McKenzie and Milley had indeed made those recommendations to Biden.
“Their input was received by the president and considered by the president for sure,” Austin said.
So Biden lied. It’s as simple as that. Actually, his dementia may have given him an out on this. His exact words when asked if his military advisors recommended leaving 2,500 troops in Afghanistan were: “No one said that to me that I can recall.”
He can’t recall where he lives or if he’s wearing pants, so the White House can definitely spin this Afghanistan lie. They might not want to go the “Biden’s brain has turned to dust” route, but they might have to in light of this enormous lie he just got busted telling.
