Aug. 17, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
02:55
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| I'm curious to hear your reaction of this consequential speech by the American president. | |
| Didn't run from it. | |
| He owned it. He owned his decision. | |
| He owned the fact that, as he put it, the buck stops with him. | |
| I hope he gets to hone their deaths, too. | |
| I feel like I watched a different speech than the rest of you guys. | |
| I was appalled. There was such a profound, bold-faced lie in that speech, the idea that we plan for every contingency. | |
| I have been personally trying to tell this administration since it took office. | |
| I've been trying to tell our government for years that this was coming. | |
| We sent them plan after plan on how to evacuate these people. | |
| Nobody listened to us. | |
| They didn't plan for the evacuation of our Afghan wartime allies. | |
| They're trying to conduct it now at the 11th hour. | |
| The thing that they were most concerned about was the optics of a chaotic evacuation. | |
| Well, they got exactly what they were most concerned of by failing to do what was right when we could have done it. | |
| We had all the people and equipment in place to be able to save these people months ago, and we did nothing. | |
| I'm appalled that he thinks we only need to take 2,000 people. | |
| There's 86,000 people who are currently left behind in Afghanistan alone. | |
| We've identified all of them for the government. | |
| I have no idea why he claims that people don't want to leave Afghanistan. | |
| I have a list of 14,000 names right now of people who want to get out of Afghanistan. | |
| And the idea that the Afghan military should be blamed for this, do you know how many casualties the Afghan military took in an average year? | |
| More than the United States did in 20. | |
| When you're not getting paid on a regular basis, when you're not getting fuel, when no one is supplying you with ammunition, and yet you're still showing up to the fight, how dare us for having to blame these people for not having the audacity I feel like I was watching a different speech than the rest of you guys. | |
| I was appalled. | |
| Well that was Matt Zellers, I guess a former veteran who tried actually helping the Biden administration with the withdrawal from Afghanistan but seemingly was ignored. | |
| He gets on MSDNC with Brian Williams who was probably pretending to be in the choppers as part of the withdrawal. | |
| And says just that. | |
| He was appalled. | |
| So we are clear, this is not some sort of conservative MAGA guy. | |
| Matt Zellers ran for Congress as a Democrat in New York. | |
| So even the Democrats understand just how badly Joe Biden has botched this, just how badly he destroyed America's credibility, and just how pathetic his entire administration is. | |
| Watch, this is coming from a Democrat who served and who was working with Biden to try to help figure this out, but was ignored. |
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