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As America witnessed on Monday, the Biden White House was determined to play ludicrous games with rhetoric and attempt to gaslight the American people who already didn’t trust them. The epitome of this display was featured in the White House press briefing where Press Secretary Jen Psaki got into a spat with Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy over whether or not there were Americans “stranded” in Afghanistan. This ridiculousness was the subject of needed criticism on the network’s Special Report.
During Doocy’s report, he jokingly noted that “Words matter, and there is one this White House doesn't want in the headlines about the Afghanistan drawdown.” He then played this soundbite from their testy exchange:
DOOCY: Does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leading Afghanistan, it's the way that he has ordered it to happen? By pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded. Does he have a sense of that?
PRESS SEC. JEN PSAKI: First of all, I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded there are not.
DOOCY: There are no Americans stranded, is the White House's official position on what's happening in Afghanistan?
PSAKI: I'm just calling you out for saying that we are stranding Americans in Afghanistan.
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