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GOP Removes Webpage Touting Trump's Taliban Peace Deal
Over the weekend, a webpage touting Donald Trump’s “historic peace deal”
with the Taliban was pulled from Republican National Committee’s website. Instead, there’s now a “404 page not found” error. Now that the Taliban has swiftly taken control of Afghanistan, Republicans apparently don’t want people to know about the “historic peace deal” they tried to give Trump credit for. The peace deal was signed in February of 2020 and the biggest problem with it was that it completely excluded the Afghan government, as the protections the US agreed to did not extend to them. The agreement was that the Taliban would not attack US and NATO troops if America left the country within 14 months. But nowhere in the agreement was there a promise for the Taliban to not attack the Afghani government. This timeline matches up with Trump’s plan to withdraw troops from the country by May of this year that Biden ultimately pushed back a few months before being forced out early by the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
The RNC took down the webpage as fast as they could to lay the blame for the fall of Afghanistan at the feet of Joe Biden. Trump played into that narrative with “official statements” he released via his spokesperson on Twitter this week. Trump said “Afghanistan is the most embarrassing military outcome in the history of the United States. It didn’t have to be that way!” In another statement, Trump said, “the corrupt Presidential Election of 2020 got us here. Never would have happened if I were President!” The truth is that if Trump did follow through with a withdrawal from Afghanistan as planned, the outcome would have most likely been the same and the Taliban would have taken over, just maybe on a different timeline. But we’ll never know for sure what would have happened in this alternative version of history or if Trump would have actually followed through on his promise to leave, since he didn’t in his four years in office. Now, because Biden did make the decision to withdraw and the Afghan government could not hold, he is taking blame from Republicans who once again seem to think we should stay in these foreign countries and nation build forever.
LOL: Trump Accuses Biden of Surrendering to COVID
Donald Trump has been releasing many statements over the past few days though his spokesperson Liz Harrington criticizing Joe Biden and his administration. The criticisms this week have been mostly about Afghanistan, but he also managed to go after Biden on COVID-19. Trump said in a statement, “Joe Biden surrendered to COVID and it has come roaring back.” This is perhaps the dumbest criticism Trump has had of the Biden administration so far. It is Trump who gave up on trying to deal with coronavirus only a month or two into the pandemic. The ex-president pushed reopening too early, held massive events without any social distancing, and tried to encourage unproven cures for the virus like hydroxychloroquine and bleach because he wanted the economy to recover more than he wanted COVID numbers to go down. Biden, on the other hand, ramped up the vaccine distribution process and got the country basically back to normal over the late spring and summer. Only recently has there been a resurgence of the virus and that’s mainly because people in red areas who love Trump won’t bother to get themselves vaccinated. Biden has been working diligently on coming up with new ways to encourage vaccine hesitant people to get their shots so that restrictions don’t have to come back into place. Of all the things for Trump to go after Biden on, his handling of the pandemic makes the least amount of sense.
From yesterday’s show:
Fox News CAUGHT Colluding with Ron DeSantis
The Republican establishment is trying to prop up Ron DeSantis as the future of the party, perhaps even as their presidential nominee for 2024 or 2028. Case in point, Fox News has a cozy relationship with the Florida governor to the point where the network have been doing nonstop propaganda for him. Between the week after the 2020 election and February of this year, Fox had DeSantis on an average of once per day. Throughout this time, according to emails, the network was even allowing DeSantis to pick the topics he wanted to discuss. This is effectively the largest cable news network in the country allowing a politician to come on their programs whenever he wanted to talk about whatever he wanted in a full display of right-wing propaganda. DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party and it’s Fox appearances like these that helped propel him to his current status. These TV hits came well after anchors at Fox criticized CNN for Chris Cuomo having his brother Andrew on to do fluff-piece interviews at the start of the pandemic. It turns out, Fox was doing the same thing, but it’s not as though their viewers are going to have an inkling of a problem with it.
More on the show:
--Farron Cousins, host of Farron Balanced and Ring of Fire, fills in for David
--The Republican National Committee removes a webpage from 2020 that touted Donald Trump's "historic peace agreement with the Taliban"
--Marjorie Taylor Greene goes on Steve Bannon's show and says she's working on articles of impeachment against Joe Biden for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan
--Republicans in Florida are sick of Congressman Matt Gaetz ignoring his district and and turning it into a "laughingstock"
--Based on a number of indicators including polling and fundraising totals, Democrats don't appear to be in a strong position heading into the 2022 midterms
--Donald Trump Jr. gloats about the fall of Afghanistan in an unhinged tweet storm
--Climate change denial may finally be on its way out in the Republican Party, with 19 GOP senators voting for Joe Biden's infrastructure bill
--The Dallas Independent School District will maintain its mask mandate despite the Texas Supreme Court ruling that upheld Governor Abbott's ban on mask requirements
--On the Bonus Show: Democrats beg SCOTUS Justice Breyer to retire, evangelicals freak out over GOP embracing same-sex marriage, another anti-mask Republican hospitalized with COVID, and much more...
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