During an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed President Biden for his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying that Biden had to be “pri[ed] off of vacation” just to give a brief speech on the crisis.
“Well, he’s asleep at the switch,” DeSantis told Fox News host Sean Hannity when asked how Biden botched the situation in Afghanistan. “When you’re leaving thousands of Americans to fend for themselves behind enemy lines, that matters. When you’re leaving billions of dollars in military equipment for our enemies to just take, that matters. It’s going to make that area a disaster.”
“Obviously, Americans are at risk,” DeSantis continued. “And Sean, you know, who’s looking at this? China, Russia, North Korea, all of our adversaries are taking the measure of Joe Biden. And they see that this is not somebody who’s capable of leading with conviction and leading on the world stage. So they are going to do everything they can, as long as he’s president to take advantage of that. And I think we’re in for a rocky three and a half years, as long as he’s president.”
“He was on vacation; they had to pry him off of vacation to give a kind of a half-cocked statement on camera that he said wasn’t taking questions,” DeSantis concluded. “Then he goes back on vacation, and he is obsessed while you have all this stuff going on with Afghanistan, obviously all this stuff at the southern border — which you and I have talked about one of the biggest border disasters in the history of our country — inflation, gas prices, and what does he do? He is obsessed with having the government force kindergarteners to wear masks all day in school.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis savages Joe Biden for his inability to lead. Biden is showing all of America’s adversaries—China, Russia—who are taking his measure and seeing someone who is incapable of leading and they will take advantage of that for as long as he’s president. pic.twitter.com/eIBXozSKMT
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 19, 2021
While the arguably biggest U.S. foreign policy disaster in decades unfolded in Afghanistan, Biden was on vacation at Camp David. The president returned to Washington briefly for a press conference addressing the crisis in which he answered no questions from reporters and went back on vacation immediately afterwards.
“President Biden on Monday returned to Camp David, resuming a vacation that was briefly interrupted by a return to the White House to address the nation about the deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan,” the Washington Times reported. “Mr. Biden began his vacation last week as Taliban insurgents swept through Afghanistan, taking control of major cities before seizing Kabul on Sunday… A little over four hours after his arrival in Washington, Mr. Biden was back aboard the Marine One helicopter en route to the presidential retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountain Park.”
