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Biden Claims He Takes Responsibility For Afghanistan While Blaming Trump, Afghans, Trapped Americans

Ryan Saavedra
Biden Claims He Takes Responsibility For Afghanistan While Blaming Trump, Afghans, Trapped Americans
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Democrat President Joe Biden lashed out at his critics, former President Donald Trump, and even Americans stranded in Kabul during a widely criticized, bizarre speech that he gave on Tuesday about his handling of Afghanistan.

Biden turned his back on reporters and did not take questions, even as hundreds of Americans remained trapped in a country now controlled by extremists, apparently breaking a commitment that he made during an interview with ABC News a couple of weeks ago in which he said that he would leave U.S. troops in the country until all Americans who wanted to leave had been evacuated.

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