Biden stranding Americans in Afghanistan leaves WH official “appalled and literally horrified”

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Biden stranding Americans in Afghanistan leaves WH official “appalled and literally horrified”: report
A White House official said he was “appalled and literally horrified” that President Biden left Americans stranded in Afghanistan, a new report reveals.

The official told Politico he was stunned by the president’s decision to leave the Americans behind as the Taliban consolidated their power in the country and reportedly carried out door-to-door killings.

“I am absolutely appalled and literally horrified that we left Americans there,” the official said. “It was a hostage rescue of thousands of Americans under the cover of a NEO [noncombatant evacuation operations], and we have failed this mission without fail. “

Another administration official told Politico he did not consider the mission to be accomplished if the Americans were abandoned in Afghanistan. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR TOP STORY.

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Mark Levin: How many Anne Franks are there in Afghanistan?
The Afghan people left behind are fighting for survival, as are the Jewish victims of Nazi Germany, “Life, Liberty & Levin” host Mark Levin said on “Hannity” on Wednesday.

“How many Anne Franks are there tonight in Afghanistan?” He asked. “How many Anne Franks are hiding in cellars across the country today?” I’m talking about the people left behind, not the 124,000 people who were evacuated to safety. I mean the millions of people who have now suffered genocide. them.”

Levin stressed that Afghans lived “mostly in peace” and security before Joe Biden’s presidency with a “minimal US military footprint”.

Levin denounced those he called “propagandists” within the administration, including White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Pentagon Admiral John Kirby, State Department spokesman Ned Price and the generals he lambasted for leaving US citizens in Afghanistan. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

In other developments:
– Tammy Bruce: Surrender to the Taliban has consequences far beyond Afghanistan
– MSNBC’s Chris Hayes downplays Biden’s phone call with Ghani: “No more of a scandal than the war itself”
– Don Lemon: “Stop Fighting” against Biden Administrator on Afghanistan, “We don’t know” if we left the Americans behind
– Hannity burns the “delusional” WH chief of staff for praising the success of Afghanistan: is he “that silly?”

California teacher who removed the American flag, suggested that students pledge allegiance to the pride flag, removed from the classroom
A California teacher who went viral after bragging in a TikTok video that she removed the American flag in her classroom because it made her “uncomfortable” and suggested that her students say that the oath of allegiance to a rainbow flag has been removed from its class.

“She has been removed from the classroom and put on administrative leave as our investigation continues,” Newport Mesa Schools spokeswoman Annette Franco confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday.

The teacher has been identified as Kristin Pitzen from Newport Mesa Schools in Orange County.

The video, which was unavailable on TikTok on Wednesday but was kept by the @libsoftiktok Twitter account, runs just under a minute and shows Pitzen telling a quick story about how engagement works in his classroom.

“OK, so in the third period we have announcements and they pledge allegiance,” she said in the video. “I always tell my class, stay up if you want to, don’t stay up if you want to, say the words if you want, don’t have to say the words.”

Then she whispers that she took up the American flag in her room because “it made me uncomfortable.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

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A FEW WORDS OF APART

Former Trump adviser Stephen miller says the Biden administration’s handling of the relocation of Afghan refugees to the United States has sounded like a “bait-and-swap” case.

Joe Biden cruelly played on America’s sympathies for a small core of Afghans who worked closely under difficult conditions with American troops – left all of these people almost in Afghanistan – and then brought them to their places over 100,000 randomly selected Afghan nationals, ”Miller said Wednesday evening. to “Tucker Carlson tonight,” “and he’s not bringing them to the United States through any legal process or through legal control channels.”

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