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Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton is working to help get Americans out of Afghanistan, with his office telling a New York Times reporter that multiple U.S. citizens trapped behind Taliban checkpoints have attempted to contact him.
Cotton tweeted out the following announcement, calling the situation “dire”:
When NYT writer Maggie Haberman contacted Cotton’s office for clarification, this was the response:
The U.S. embassy in Kabul issued a security alert Sunday as the Taliban occupied the capitol.
The alert warned U.S. citizens in the area to shelter in place and avoid both the embassy and airport. The specific instructions to avoid the embassy and airport then appeared to be later withdrawn:
What Joe Biden’s administration is doing is anyone’s guess because there has been no address from the White House, only a vague suggestion that Biden might say something in a few days:
Attempts to contact the White House Press Secretary were met with an ‘out of office’ response:
Last week, Biden declared that there would be no circumstance where Americans would need to be rescued from the embassy:
It appears that what Biden said wouldn’t happen under any circumstances is now EXACTLY what is happening.
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