Newsmakers: Morgan Ortagus

Published August 18, 2021 3:48pm ET



Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokeswoman under the Trump administration and senior adviser to the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, joined Elisha Krauss this week to discuss the United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Ortagus placed all responsibility on the Biden White House and State Department for failing American allies, discussed the vacuum created for the Chinese Communist Party to swoop in, and praised Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, and nonprofit organizations for helping people in Afghanistan.

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