Adam Kinzinger Really Wants You to Know Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster Was Mostly Trump’s Fault – Opinion

A line or two of the following can be loosely paraphrased: Tombstone, poor Adam Kinzinger. He can’t help himself; he was born that way. As is the case with his fellow TDS-riddled, pretend-Republican House colleague Liz Cheney, who is likely to get her hat handed to her in Tuesday’s Wyoming primary, the Illinois congressman never misses an opportunity to embarrass himself with his continual attacks against all things Donald Trump.

Kinzinger appears in this episode Really took it to the paint, “commemorating” on Monday the one-year anniversary of Joe Biden’s inexcusable Afghanistan withdrawal disaster — by doing his damnedest to convince us that despite the major beatdown and loss of political capital suffered by Biden, the withdrawal was mostly Trump’s fault, No, really. It’s here.

Do not let my colleagues pretend today that Trump and Pompeo didn’t set in motion the Afghanistan withdrawal. They did.

Pompeo was my friend in that house. [sic]He was a hawk in Afghanistan from before Trump. [sic]

This was his mistake, and he knows it.

Trump Pompeo and Biden both to blame. [sic]

Can you spell “delusional hatred”? I’m surprised Kinzinger mentioned Biden at all.

Do not let my colleagues pretend today that Trump and Pompeo didn’t set in motion the Afghanistan withdrawal. They did.

Pompeo lived in my house. He was an ahawk about Afghanistan up until Trump. This was something he knew all along.

Trump Pompeo and Biden both to blame.

— Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) August 16, 2022

Incidentally, anyone who knows a modicum amount about Mike Pompeo, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary of State under Trump, knows full well that the West Point and Harvard Law school standout is unlikely to be fundamentally swayed by those of lesser intelligence, much less be turned from a so-called “hawk” into a “dove” by Donald Trump. Sorry, Adam, that dog won’t hunt.

Joe Biden alone ignored the advice of his top generals, left Afghanistan officials and our NATO allies in the dark, and abandoned untold numbers of American civilians behind the lines of the most brutal terrorist regime on the planet — not Donald Trump. Politically driven Biden bypassed his military advisors and abandoned Trump’s pullout plan, leading to the worst U.S. military and foreign policy disaster in decades.

Make no mistake: Biden — and Biden alone — is to blame for the Afghanistan debacle, regardless of protestations to the contrary of obsessed, irrelevant Trump-haters like whiny Adam Kinzinger.

Here are a few of my favorite Twittersphere responses to Kinginger’s foolishness:

this tweet is kinda wild because it literally is one of the most braindead tweets i have ever read, but that’s unsurprising because it’s kinzinger.

The moment biden became potus, he had the ability to make any change he desired under the executive branch of CiC. https://t.co/4g51BUPUQP

— kaitlin, by definition, a woman (@thefactualprep) August 16, 2022

Exactly. Biden has repeatedly nullified Trump’s directives since his first day in office, including killing the Keystone XL Pipeline project, rejoining the ridiculous Paris Climate Accord, and reviving the previously failed Iran nuclear talks. The notion that he could not have pulled off a “reset” on a withdrawal from Afghanistan was preposterous at the time — and it is preposterous still.

Trump and Pompeo decided to leave Bagram Air Base FIRST and attempt to evacuate thousands of people through Kabul Airrport. This was an OBVIOUS tactical error that resulted in many deaths. You’re saying that wasn’t the Biden Administration but rather the Trump Administration?

— M. Thomas Gollaher (@ZingaraAdrift) August 16, 2022

Bingo. A 10th-grader, presented with basic facts, could have figured out that abandoning Bagram  Air Base and relying on the Kabul Airport to evacuate thousands was a terrible tactical mistake. Yeah, Joe did that, Adam — not Trump.

It’s almost like you fall over yourself trying to crap on Trump and anyone connected to his admin with zero proof as fast as you can tweet. You’re the great pretender, a fake Republican and total stain on Congress and US politics.

— Aaron Hermes (@realAaronHermes) August 16, 2022

Yup. Liz Cheney could not be reached for comment.

The humorous fact is that both Kinzinger and Cheney have been so consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome that they’ve flushed their respective political careers down the toilet in the process. Don’t get me wrong; if these two pretend-Republicans have been voting and speaking their consciences, fine. However, not as House Republican Caucus members.

This begs the question: How come they continue to sit on the wrong side?