You sure you don’t remember, Joe? It was a big deal.
It seems President Biden has forgotten about the 13 servicemembers who died during his botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Biden claimed Thursday night that no troops have been killed since he’s been in office.
“When he was president, there were still killing people in Afghanistan, and he didn’t do anything about that,” Biden said. “When he was president, we still found ourselves in a position where you had a notion that we were the safe country. The truth is, I’m the only president [in] this century, that doesn’t have any — this decade — that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world.”
BIDEN: "When he was president, there were still killing people in Afghanistan … I'm the only president this decade that doesn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world…"
Does Joe not remember the Afghanistan withdrawal? pic.twitter.com/ArULxgxPw4
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 28, 2024
While President Biden seemingly forgot all about the deadly withdrawal, Donald Trump did not. The former president unloaded on Biden throughout the debate for what Trump calls one of the worst moments in American history.
“He was so bad with Afghanistan,” Trump said during the CNN presidential debate on Thursday night. “It was such a horrible embarrassment. Most embarrassing moment in the history of our country that when Putin watched that and he saw the incompetence.”
“He should have fired those generals like I fired the one that you mentioned and so he’s got no love lost but he should have fired those generals,” Trump continued. “No general got fired for the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan, where we left billions of dollars of equipment behind. We lost 13 beautiful soldiers and 38 soldiers were obliterated.”