Lindsey Graham: Biden overview of bungled Afghanistan withdrawal a ‘political whitewash’

Sen. Lindsey Graham charged President Biden on Sunday with attempting to rewrite the historical past of the administration’s bungled and chaotic 2021 exit from Afghanistan to finish America’s longest battle.

The South Carolina Republican and staunch ally of Donald Trump mentioned that whereas the ex-president first entered into an settlement with the Taliban to withdraw from the nation, an interagency overview led by the White House National Security Council blaming Mr. Trump for having “severely constrained” Mr. Biden is akin to “political whitewash.”

“Some of the things President Trump did I disagreed with, but he did withdraw. And here’s the point: this report is a political whitewash by the administration to shift blame,” Mr. Graham mentioned on “Fox News Sunday.” “He’s claiming we eradicated all terrorist threats in Afghanistan, that’s why we withdrew to end the longest war.”

The GOP senator went on to say that the administration is making a “lethal cocktail” of home and overseas insurance policies ready to boil over and provides strategy to the following 9/11 terrorist assault.

“When the Biden administration tells you there are no more terrorists in Afghanistan, they are lying. There is a lethal cocktail forming: rise of terrorism in Afghanistan, a broken border here in the United States,” Mr. Graham mentioned. “My view of what happened in Afghanistan by Biden is he paved the way for another 9/11.”

The White House’s after-action overview, of which solely a 12-page abstract was launched publicly due to nationwide safety issues, took little duty and blamed Mr. Trump’s administration for a botched exit that left 13 U.S. troops useless from an explosion.