Biden’s memory hole

Published October 1, 2021 3:00am ET



I must return to the subject of President Joe Biden’s falsehoods. Despite devoting this space last week to “White House Whoppers,” it’s necessary to discuss our chief executive’s dishonesty further, for it’s been glaringly exposed again, this time by the military brass.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, and Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, made it plain to Congress that they’d advised Biden to keep 2,500 military personnel in Afghanistan to evacuate Americans, legal residents, and allies before the Taliban takeover. They didn’t want to scuttle away as ordered.

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