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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Army Veteran, Biden Supporter Eviscerates President For Lying to American People in Afghanistan Speech
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet 
 
Army veteran Matt Zeller didn’t mince words Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” when asked to respond to President Biden’s Afghanistan speech, which co-host Nicole Wallace claimed, “95 percent of the American people will agree with everything [Biden] just said.”

Co-host Brian Williams, meanwhile, praised the president for his “consequential speech.”

“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,” Williams said.

As Spencer reported, Biden did utter the words, "the buck stops with me," but most of the speech blamed everyone else for Afghanistan's rapid fall to the Taliban. 

"I feel like I watched a different speech than the rest of you guys. I was appalled,” Zeller shot back. “There was such a profound bald-faced lie in that speech. The idea we planned for every contingency? I have been...Read more and see tweet and video here.

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