Appearing on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle” on Wednesday, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ohio) discussed the possibility of a House select committee being convened to investigate President Joe Biden’s health and how that may have impacted the progression of his decision-making regarding an Afghanistan withdrawal early in his presidency.
The Ohio Republican and Afghanistan veteran said he was “fully supportive” of the committee, noting that Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan would have “huge implications.”
“You know, Congressman Bank“You served in Afghanistan,” McEnany said. “You were in the Navy. When I read the Politico article yesterday about aides being afraid of Biden, and then I read about this cover-up, which New York magazine is calling a lie, I immediately thought of the 13 soldiers who died in Afghanistan. Biden’s decision-making in Afghanistan. Was he in favor of it? Were lives lost because he didn’t come forward, and because his aides didn’t tell the truth? Should there be a special commission on Biden’s mental health?”
“Yes, Kaylee, I’m all for it,” Banks responded. “Remember last Thursday during the debate that Joe Biden said that no soldiers’ lives were lost under his administration. This is a complete lie, because he has either forgotten about the 13 heroes who died because of his and his administration’s foolish decisions, or he is trying to cover it up and lie to the American people again.”
He continued, “That’s why I support a select committee. I support every effort in Congress to hold this administration, this president and the media accountable for the greatest cover-up in American history. They all know this man is demented. He is unfit to be president. I want to know who has been making the decisions over the last three and a half years that have led to suffering for the American people and have emboldened Iranian proxy groups that have attacked our greatest enemies around the world – Russia, China, North Korea, Hamas, Israel, etc. – because we have the weakest, most demented commander in chief in American history in the White House.”
“So if these aides don’t come voluntarily, should we subpoena them?” McEnany asked.
“Of course,” Banks replied. “They should be summoned before Congress and told to tell us who made the sudden decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, to pull the rug out from under not only the Afghan government but our military, and to have 13 soldiers die in Afghanistan because they still haven’t made that decision.”
He added, “I sit on the House Armed Services Committee and the committee has never been briefed on this. Nobody has been held accountable. I don’t think even Joe Biden knows who made this decision. I want to know who made this decision, because it had huge ramifications.”
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