Joe's loses his grip on reality: President claims 'no one is being killed' in the Kabul airport chaos despite 12 confirmed deaths and says he can't 'recall' if he was told to keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan
KATELYN CARALLE | PUBLISHED: 08:17 EDT, 19 August 2021 | UPDATED: 15:50 EDTJoe Biden said he can't 'recall' if he was warned to maintain a troop presence in Afghanistan and insisted 'no one is being killed' during the chaos at the Kabul airport in a series of confusing comments in his first interview on the bungled withdrawal and the Taliban's takeover.
He also said he would have still pulled troops from Afghanistan without former President Donald Trump's deal to get everyone out by May 1 in a reversal of his finger-pointing at his predecessor for the chaos.
'Your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline – they wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops,' ABC's George Stephanopoulos said to Biden in an interview that aired Thursday morning.
'No, they didn't,' the president pushed back. 'It was split. That wasn't true. That wasn't true.'
'They didn't tell you they wanted troops to stay?' Stephanopoulos asked.
'No, not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame – all troops, they didn't argue against that,' Biden reiterated. . .
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