{"id":333152,"date":"2021-09-01T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meghan-mccain-blasts-biden-over-afghanistan-speech\/"},"modified":"2021-09-01T05:48:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T02:48:00","slug":"meghan-mccain-blasts-biden-over-afghanistan-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meghan-mccain-blasts-biden-over-afghanistan-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meghan McCain blasts Biden over Afghanistan speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Meghan McCain blasts Biden over Afghanistan speech<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Meghan McCain blasted President Joe Biden\u2019s speech on the completion of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan Tuesday, at one point tweeting, \u201cI do not recognize this man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former co-host of \u201cThe View\u201d and daughter of the late Sen. John McCain \u2014 a longtime Capitol Hill colleague of Biden \u2014 took issue with the president\u2019s contention in his speech that the evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies had gone as smoothly as possible. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome say we should have started mass evacuations sooner and [ask] \u2018Couldn\u2019t this have be done \u2014 have been done in a more orderly manner?\u2019 I respectfully disagree,\u201d Biden said. \u201cImagine if we had begun evacuations in June or July, bringing in thousands of American troops and evacuating more than 120,000 people in the middle of a civil war. There still would have been a rush to the airport, a breakdown in confidence and control of the government, and it still would have been a very difficult and dangerous mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/meghan-mccain-biden-244.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021\" class=\"wp-image-19309571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/meghan-mccain-biden-244.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/meghan-mccain-biden-244.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/meghan-mccain-biden-244.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan on Aug. 31, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Evan Vucci<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That drew McCain\u2019s ire. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Thirteen] American soldiers are dead \u2013 most of them between the ages of 20-23 because they were put in harms [sic] way chaotically in the line of fire of a suicide bomber,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1432816781677182980\">she tweeted<\/a>. \u201cDis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed and disgusted President Biden says \u2018this couldn\u2019t have been done in a more orderly manner\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1432817975669796865\">McCain tore into Biden<\/a> again, writing: \u201cThis is extremely difficult for me to say: I once thought I truly knew Joe Biden and he helped me through pain and grief, for which I am grateful. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is extremely difficult for me to say:<\/p>\n<p>I once thought I truly knew Joe Biden and he helped me through pain and grief, for which I am grateful. <\/p>\n<p>This man on tv giving this speech, I do not recognize this man. God help our country. God help the Americans we have abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1432817975669796865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis man on tv giving this speech, I do not recognize this man,\u201d she added. \u201cGod help our country. God help the Americans we have abandoned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1432818733362421760\">third tweet<\/a>, McCain asked whether Biden administration officials believed they represented a \u201creturn to normalcy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]his is just as chaotic as Trump, just in a different way,\u201d she said. \u201cAmericans and our country and most importantly our military will not be able to withstand four years of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The close friendship between McCain and Biden was a decades-long fact of life in Washington. Biden was one of the pallbearers at McCain\u2019s funeral in 2018, and Cindy McCain \u2014 John\u2019s widow and Meghan\u2019s mother \u2014 endorsed Biden for president last year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband John lived by a code: country first,\u201d Cindy McCain tweeted last September in announcing her endorsement. \u201cWe are Republicans, yes, but Americans foremost. There\u2019s only one candidate in this race who stands up for our values as a nation, and that is @JoeBiden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Meghan McCain \u2014 a regular critic of former President Donald Trump \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1325123592066097152\">expressed relief at Biden\u2019s victory<\/a> in the presidential election, her husband Ben Domenech has claimed that his wife did not actually pull the lever for Biden last November. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife didn\u2019t vote for Joe Biden,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bdomenech\/status\/1377257962901794817\">The Federalist publisher<\/a> sniped at a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> user who suggested McCain had done so, \u201cand I don\u2019t communicate with her via tweets.\u201d\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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