In case you missed it, yesterday the Biden administration took gaslighting to a whole new level.
For multiple days running every major outlet from The Washington Post to Associated Press to CNN to NBC have run stories describing the plight of stranded Americans who've desperately sought to make their way to Kabul's international airport, where evacuation flights have steadily ramped up.
So naturally the press pool was taken aback Monday when White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed that no, there are not Americans stranded in Kabul - though clearly she was engaged as usual in stretching the very meaning of words to the point of laughably obvious spin and blatant falsehood...
Okay, so the Biden administration doesn't consider these 17,000 Americans to be "stranded."
Here's someone who would probably disagree with that notion.
...a Washington Post reporter described how British troops helped her and her friends escape Afghanistan, adding to further criticism of the Biden administration’s refusal to allow U.S. forces to leave Kabul airport to assist with evacuation efforts.
“Susannah George told of how she and the paper’s Afghan staff were able to latch on to a separate evacuation led by UK troops, after spotting them and asking for help to flee,” the Daily Mail reported. “That saw them hurriedly travel along a road to Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport in armored cars driven by private security guards.”
According to George, security around Kabul airport was “crumbling,” and “her Afghan co-worker Tassal and his young daughter were beaten by Taliban fighters as they waited on the civilian side of the airport for a flight that never arrived.”
Escape from Afghanistan? Why would you need to "escape" if they weren't stranded?
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 21: In this handout image provided by the Ministry of Defence, a full flight of 265 people are evacuated out of Kabul by the UK Armed Forces on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The British armed forces are evacuating UK citizens and eligible personnel out of the Afghan capital after the Taliban took control of the country last week. (Photo by Ben Shread/MoD Crown Copyright via Getty Images)