House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that President Joe Biden was turning his back on U.S. citizens trying to flee Afghanistan.
”With the very real prospect of thousands of Americans being stranded in Afghanistan on Sept. 1, the Biden administration is accepting the fact that they will leave Americans behind,” the California Republican said in a press briefing Wednesday. ”He turned his back on our own citizens stranded in Afghanistan.”
McCarthy said the image of Biden walking away from the lectern Tuesday without taking questions from reporters was becoming an image ”that defines his presidency.”
In his remarks Tuesday, the president said that he spoke with G-7 leaders and others to thank them for assisting with the evacuations from Kabul in the week since Taliban forces took over the capital city and country, forcing thousands of U.S. citizens, other foreign nationals and Afghan refugees to try to flee.
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