How slow Joe Biden’s bungled facts about Afghanistan & 5-hr delay to speak about Kabul bomb shows presidency in turmoil
JOE Biden's presidency has been littered with gaffes from the start - from tripping THREE times as he made his way up the steps of Air Force One to forgetting why he ran for President.
But Biden has now suffered his worst week in the White House with a string of far more serious blunders as he battles a surging wave of backlash over his handling of the Afghanistan crisis as the US scrambles to evacuate dependents after he rubber-stamped plans to withdraw troops following a costly - and unpopular - 20-year war against the
The President has now even been accused of having "blood on his hands" after at least 13 troops were among the 170-plus killed at the hands of ISIS-K in a suicde at Kabul airport.
Speaking from the White House after the deadly blast, Biden appeared to crumble under the pressure as he
The President then once again became a target of anger after he admitted that the US may have handed Taliban henchmen a “kill list” to target Afghans who previously helped Americans in the country.
During Thursday’s press conference, didn’t deny that names may have been handed over to the .
He said: “There have been occasions when our military has contacted their military counterparts in the Taliban and said this, for example, this bus is coming through with X number of people on it, made up of the following group of people.
"We want you to let that bus or that group through. So yes, there have been occasions like that. To the best of my knowledge, in those cases, the bulk of that has occurred and they have been let through."
It what can only be argued at Biden's worst week yet as President, he suffered a tirade of abuse of social media on Tuesday after delaying an update of the Afghanistan situation by five hours.
He was expected to give an update at around noon on Tuesday - but didn't begin speaking until shortly after 5pm EST, only for his address to be just 15 minutes long, with the first portion spent talking about the economy.
The seemingly gaffe-prone President even risked global backlash earlier this month by slamming the Afghan president and military leaders by blasting the Afghan army for "giving up" in the face of the Taliban resurgence.
The ex-president described the bombing as "an evil act" that should "never have been allowed to happen" in a video message released Thursday night.
Steve Nikoui says he blames the President for the death of his song Kareem, a young US Marine stationed at the capital airport.
“They sent my son over there as a paper pusher and then had the outside providing security. I blame my own military leaders," he said.