Twenty-three days before the fall of Afghanistan, President Joe Biden spoke with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
A transcript of the call was reviewed by Reuters. To a certain extent, Biden tried to express confidence in Ghani’s government: “We are going to continue to fight hard, diplomatically, politically, economically, to make sure your government not only survives, but is sustained and grows,” Biden told Ghani.
At one point during the July 23 call, however, Biden made it clear the rest of the world wasn’t very confident.
“I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said, according to Reuters.
“And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”
That “whether it is true or not” part is getting put under the microscope. Not that the White House wants to talk about it, particularly White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
When asked at a Wednesday briefing if Biden was “in any way pushing a false narrative in that call with the Afghan president,” Psaki said she wasn’t “going to go into details of a private conversation.”
.@JacquiHeinrich: "Is there a -- sort of a time frame where if there isn't an update from the State Department, there might be a course correction? I asked...if they had updated numbers & nobody's gotten back to me....But is there a time frame where you will readjust? pic.twitter.com/KECxjz9s3o
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 1, 2021
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— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 1, 2021
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The REAL insurrectionistd!
Have her go on a tour of Afghanistan as a good will gesture. You know how they love women.
Pusucki is a complete lying incompetent idiot. I wonder how many times a day Joe Burden sniffs her hair.@