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President Biden’s Afghanistan disaster was so eclipsing that it was forcing the media to actually do some real journalism for a change. And during an exclusive interview with Biden on Wednesday, ABC’s normally partisan chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos grilled him on how he had misled the American people on how smoothly the withdrawal would go and how fast the Afghan military and political system would crumble.
The first bit of the interview shared on World News Tonight featured Stephanopoulos coming out of the gate swinging with a question about Biden’s mischaracterization of the withdrawal back in July:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Back in July, you said a Taliban takeover was highly unlikely. Was the intelligence wrong or did you downplay it?
BIDEN: I think, there was no consensus. If you go back and look back on the intelligence reports, they said that it was more likely to be by some time at the end of the year.
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