OAN's Brooke Mallory
5:35pm – Monday, January 1, 2024
President Joe Biden has a history of abandoning the American people in the midst of emergencies and natural disasters, when there is little chance of sufficient aid arriving. Here are four examples of Americans becoming isolated.
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meanwhile AfghanistanDuring the bloody and chaotic evacuation, the Biden administration claimed to have rescued more than 120,000 people. However, the administration also left more than 800 Americans behind enemy lines. An initial analysis of the withdrawal by Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee suggested that, contrary to Biden's claims that only 100 to 200 Americans remain in Afghanistan, until Biden withdraws all U.S. troops. It was revealed that more than 800 Americans remained. behind.
This figure does not include people evacuated by civilians or nongovernmental organizations.
“The State Department has evacuated more than 800 American citizens abroad since August 31, 2022. This does not include AMCITS who were evacuated by outside groups. This clearly exceeds the number of “approximately 100 people'' that came before. [non-combat evacuation operation] Ended. For reference, the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis left 52 Americans in Iran,” the committee report states.
Additionally, at least 13 American servicemen lost their lives during the evacuation.
in sudan, the Biden administration left an estimated 16,000 American residents on the ground as the war raged in April, hoping they would escape on their own. The White House claimed that although the government took steps to help U.S. embassy personnel flee, nothing was prepared to help the thousands of Americans stranded there at the time.
White House National Security Council Press Secretary John Kirby said at the time: “It is absolutely imperative that American citizens in Sudan make their own arrangements to stay safe in this difficult situation.” “Americans should not expect a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation at this time. And we expect that to continue,” he added.
U.S. officials came under fire over the weekend for rescuing about 70 embassy workers by helicopter while threatening to withhold equivalent evacuations for thousands of civilian Americans in Sudan. However, other countries, including France, have sent ships to help evacuate their citizens in the meantime.
After a train accident in February leaked dangerous chemicals. East Palestine, OhioIt killed wildlife and polluted local water and air, and Biden announced he would visit the sites. Jessica Conard, an East Palestine local who witnessed the incident unfold from her backyard, told The Paper. new york times She said she was relieved to hear Biden's announcement because she thought his presence would let the world know that a disaster had occurred and help get funding to the town. However, Biden reneged on his promise and did not visit East Palestine.
“I feel like I don't have anything to do with it,” said Conard, who voted for Biden in 2020 and heard the president flew over East Palestine in September to meet with union members from other states. At that time, he added, “I was shocked.'' That's the state of the key swing.
Additionally, Biden issued an executive order directing federal agencies to conduct an assessment to hold Norfolk Southern state accountable rather than sign a disaster declaration that would give the state access to federal resources.
“I haven't had a chance to go to East Palestine. There's a lot going on here and I haven't been able to break through it,” Biden said. “We were planning to go to East Palestine this week, but then we realized we have to go around the world. We go from Washington to India to Vietnam, so it will take a while. We are making sure that the people have what they need materially to deal with the problem.”
“But where are you going?” Conard continued. “Where do you go when your community is ignored over and over again by the president of the United States? That's where I want to be. I want to go somewhere where I feel worthy of being saved as an American.”
Saturday, October 7ththHamas carries out a large-scale terrorist attack in the south. Israel. Americans in the country at the time were unable to contact the U.S. embassy and initially had to find other ways to return home. But the day after the attack, which left Israelis and Americans dead and hundreds kidnapped, Biden decided to vent his frustrations with a barbecue at the White House.
Silver Prout, an American who was visiting Israel with a church group, said the embassy was closed on Monday, October 9.thIn commemoration of Columbus Day, they were unable to contact anyone on the ground for several days.
“They need to start getting Americans out,” said Prout, one of 46 Americans stranded in Israel. “Where is the State Department?”
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