“That’s a dumb thing to say, he thought, because we fly helicopters from the embassy every day,” Whipple writes in his book, according to an excerpt released Thursday.
President Biden dismissed comparisons of the situation to the US exit from Vietnam 46 years earlier.Author Chris Whipple makes the claim claims in his new book “The Fight of His Life.”One White House staffer said the comments made by Biden were “dumb” and cringed.The image was widely compared to a 1975 photograph of a helicopter evacuating US Embassy staff from Saigon.
Whipple claims in his book, out Jan. 17, that the Afghanistan withdrawal tormented Biden, leaving him sleepless and saddened as he faced criticism over his handling of it. “While US troops were on the ground, one of Biden’s close friends told me, the president barely slept,” Whipple writes. “‘You’re watching intel and holding your breath, really just praying that nothing will happen to your people,’ said a senior NSC adviser,” Whipple adds, claiming that during a trip to Dover, Delaware, to receive the caskets of 13 fallen service members killed by a suicide bomber outside the Kabul airport, a family member of one of the soldiers killed in action yelled at Biden, “I hope you burn in hell.
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