BY AGENCY REPORT
United States President Joe Biden position as the 46th American president came under threat as many Americans called for his impeachment after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.
The calls to impeach U.S. President Joe Biden have grown on social media following the withdrawal of most of the U.S. military from Afghanistan and President Ashraf Ghani ceding power to the Taliban.
Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump‘s ex-attorney and former mayor of New York, was quick to criticize Biden, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on Twitter.
“It’s such a bad #BidenDisaster, it may lead to an #IMPEACHBIDENNOW. Then #IMPEACHBIDENHARRIS will lead #PelosiDisaster,” Giuliani tweeted on Sunday evening.
It’s such a bad #BidenDisaster, it may lead to an #IMPEACHBIDENNOW.
Then #IMPEACHBIDENHARRIS will lead #PelosiDisaster.
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) August 15, 2021
Amy Tarkanian, former Nevada GOP chairwoman, tweeted that Biden could not remain “Commander In Chief” after the weekend’s events in Afghanistan.
“The Cabinet should immediately invoke the 25th Amendment. If they won’t do that, the Congress should move to impeach him. His remaining as our Commander In Chief is a national security threat,” Tarkanian said.
Jerome Bell, a Trump-supporting Republican who is running for Congress in Virginia’s Congressional District, tweeted with a screenshot alleging that Biden lied about military intelligence on Afghanistan. The military intelligence allegedly informed him that for the months leading up to the U.S. withdrawal the Afghan army was surrendering in their “hundreds, sometimes thousands all over the country” to the Taliban. Biden said in a July 8 press conference that the Afghanistan military was capable of subverting the Taliban.
The streets of Kabul were quiet on Monday after the Taliban stormed into the presidential palace on Sunday night and declared the war in Afghanistan to be over.
There were scenes of chaos at Kabul airport, where thousands looked to flee the country fearing retaliation by the Taliban for their association with the West and Ghani’s government.
Ghani later posted on Facebook that he had chosen to leave his country to avert bloodshed in a Kabul that had been overrun by the Taliban. He said that “countless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul would be destroyed” if he had remained there. Afghan TV network Tolo News suggested that Ghani fled to neighbouring Tajikistan.
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The U.S. and other Western countries were also scrambling to evacuate diplomats, embassy workers and citizens stranded in the central Asian country. The U.S. sent 1,000 more troops back into the country to guard the military side of the airport and assist with the evacuations.
The president, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top government officials are also coming under intense pressure from the media over the collapse of the Afghan government.
CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said Biden must feel “humiliated” watching footage from Kabul showing the chaotic U.S. exit from the central Asian country. He added that it had been “a political disaster.”
Biden—who has been at the Camp David presidential retreat during the Taliban advance—is expected to address the nation on Afghanistan in the coming days.
Newsweek
