.@SecBlinken: “The LGBTQI community in Afghanistan … is something that we’re focused on.” pic.twitter.com/RJgitvJAI9
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 13, 2021
This guy made no comments throughout the entire Afghanistan debacle.
Now he comes out and blames Trump and says he’s really worried about gay sex in Afghanistan.
RT:
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied accusations of a botched retreat from Afghanistan, blaming the Trump administration for any failures and saying Washington is focused on protecting LGBTQ and other vulnerable Afghans.
“Thank you for rightly putting the spotlight on concerns about the LGBTQI+ community in Afghanistan and the particular threat that they find themselves under,” Blinken told US Representative David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) on Monday in a House hearing on the Afghan withdrawal.
“This is something that we are focused on.”
It’s not clear how Blinken intends to protect LGBTQ and other vulnerable Afghans, as the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan even before President Joe Biden’s administration could complete its exit. The administration on Monday announced $64 million in new humanitarian assistance to the country, saying the money will be routed to charities and UN agencies to avoid letting it get into the hands of the Taliban.
USAID, led by notable interventionist Samantha Power, will send the money through nongovernmental organizations to “provide life-saving support directly to Afghans facing the compounding effects of insecurity, conflict, recurring natural disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic,” according to the announcement.
Blinken implied the US has some level of leverage over the Taliban, even while acknowledging that the Islamist group has prevented some Americans and US allies from leaving the country on charter flights.
We still don’t have the name of one single “American” that is “trapped in Afghanistan.”
Note that.
We have no list of names, we do not have a single name.
But that doesn’t stop Mark Meadows from being very worried.
Secretary Blinken just acknowledged the Taliban has blocked charter flights out of Afghanistan, with Americans still there trying to get out. We’re in a hostage crisis. And today Joe Biden is campaigning in California.
— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) September 13, 2021
Hundreds of Americans hostage with the Taliban, and instead of rescuing them, Joe Biden is trying to rescue a failed governor in California https://t.co/qrIeKSh097
— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) September 13, 2021
These Republicans are all saying this.
The consequences of the Biden Administration’s hasty retreat from Afghanistan were not just foreseeable. They were foreseen. And yet on this President’s watch, we left Americans and vulnerable Afghans behind.
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) September 13, 2021
Will the Americans you left in Afghanistan be getting boosters? https://t.co/Mhj58NMzIf
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 11, 2021
House Democrats:
-Spend money like crazy
-Drive up inflation
-Amnesty for illegal immigrants
-Raise your taxes
-Take your guns
-Defund the police
-Ignore rising crime
-Abandon Americans stranded in Afghanistan.And attack your fundamental freedoms.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 13, 2021
Americans will be trapped in Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of September 11th.
IMPEACH JOE BIDEN!
— Josh Mandel (@JoshMandelOhio) September 10, 2021
Joe Biden does not get tout "unity" after abandoning Americans in Afghanistan and labeling all of his opponents warmongers, then attacking the unvaccinated for his own policy failures.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 13, 2021
I just want to remind you of two things. First, Biden abandoned hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan. The second is that George W. Bush is garbage.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 14, 2021
WATCH: My Q&A with @SecBlinken at today's @HouseForeign hearing on the failed Afghanistan withdrawal, calling out lies, asking for elusive numbers on stranded Americans, U.S. Green Card Holders, and Afghan SIVs, and calling for Blinken to RESIGN. pic.twitter.com/ujThjifTSX
— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) September 13, 2021
How many Americans are stranded in Afghanistan?
— Congresswoman Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) September 13, 2021
Not one of them has presented a single name. There is no video or audio recording of an American saying he is trapped. There are no photos. There are no leads.
I’m not aware of any other “hostage situation” ever in history where no one knew the names of the hostages, or could identify anything about them.
This is all just totally fake.
It gives Republicans something to talk about instead of talking about Joe Biden’s vax agenda.