Biden’s lies keep coming amid his Afghan evacuation debacle

Published September 10, 2021 4:00am ET



We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history, with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety,” President Joe Biden boasted from the White House State Dining Room on Aug. 31. That was just days after 13 U.S. service members were killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport due to the disorderly nature of the evacuation.

Over 100,000 people sounds like an impressive figure, but who exactly was airlifted to safety? Biden wants you to believe that many of them were Afghans who had helped our troops against the Taliban. “We got thousands of Afghan translators and interpreters and others who supported the United States out as well,” Biden claimed.

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