You won’t find a more powerful example of the media’s pro-Democratic tilt — and outright hostility toward former President Donald Trump — than their refusal this week to call out President Biden as a downright liar, as they did with his predecessor, when it comes to his comments about his Afghanistan pullout.
Back in July, the prez flatly rejected suggestions that the intelligence community feared an increasingly rapid collapse of the Afghan government as US troops withdrew.
“Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse,” a reporter noted at the July 8 presser. Biden denied it. “Can you please clarify what [intelligence officials] have told you?” he was asked. Biden fumed again: “They did not — they didn’t — did not reach that conclusion.”
Indeed, the president insisted that the idea there’s “going to be one unified government in Afghanistan controlling the whole country is highly unlikely.”
As the world learned painfully this week, he was dead wrong. The kind view would be that he simply miscalculated, though to disastrous effect.
In truth, it appears Biden was lying through his teeth: It actually might be hard to find a top official who didn’t warn him about the dangers of his pullout.