‘But Joe Says It’s Safe To Go to the Airport…’ McEnany Mocks Biden After U.S. Military Forced to Establish Alternate Routes in Kabul Due to ISIS Terror Threat

It was reported today that the U.S. military has been forced to establish “alternative routes” to the Kabul airport because of a threat the terror group ISIS-K poses to the airport and its surroundings.

In a tweet, Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany shared a CNN article on the situation and mocked President Joe Biden and stated, “But Joe says it’s safe to go to the airport…”

But Joe says it's safe to go to the airport…

"ISIS terror threat forces US military to establish alternative routes to Kabul airport" ⬇️https://t.co/SHOuQMVv82

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) August 21, 2021

Earlier today McEnany shared an article from The Daily Mail in a tweet and said, “Biden FALSELY says the Taliban is providing safe passage for Americans heading to the airport.”

“Meanwhile, ‘U.S. Embassy tells Americans NOT to go to Kabul airport due to security threats,'” McEnany added, quoting the article.

Biden FALSELY says the Taliban is providing safe passage for Americans heading to the airport.

Meanwhile, "U.S. Embassy tells Americans NOT to go to Kabul airport due to security threats"https://t.co/tHixut6nm0

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) August 21, 2021

On Tuesday, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan claimed that the Taliban had told the U.S. it will provide safe passage for civilians to reach the airport.

During an interview that aired on Thursday, Biden said the Taliban is “going through sort of an existential crisis” and credited the group for giving Americans “safe passage” to get out of Afghanistan.

The Washington Times reported yesterday that Republican lawmakers seized on Biden’s remarks and said that they don’t line up with what is taking place on the ground.

Democrats, they noted, were largely mum on Biden‘s remarks and the situation in general as a Friday afternoon scroll of Twitter accounts for Democrat lawmakers revealed their focus was on issues such as student debt and COVID-19 vaccines.

From The Washington Times:

“President Biden is either divorced from reality or he‘s intentionally misleading the nation about what is actually happening in Afghanistan,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican. “The evacuation process is a nightmare. It is unconscionable that the most powerful nation on earth won’t guarantee the safe passage of American citizens, instead choosing to put their fate in the hands of the Taliban.”

Mr. Tillis also blasted the president’s claims that Americans can safely get to the airport as reports of violence and chaos along roads have slowed the evacuation process. Taliban militants have set up checkpoints blocking Americans and vulnerable Afghans from reaching the airports.

“President Biden appears willfully ignorant to the fact that these American citizens and Afghans are being forced to get through Taliban checkpoints and are having extreme difficulty getting to the airport and inside of it,” he continued. “Their journey is especially harrowing as we hear more reports of Americans being beaten and the Taliban going door-to-door to execute Afghans who served alongside American troops.”

The Republican National Committee said Mr. Biden‘s claims of safe passage to the airport are “verifiably false.”

“Joe Biden created a disaster in Afghanistan, and now Americans and our allies are paying the price,” said RNC spokeswoman Emma Vaughn. “Biden‘s claims that Americans can safely get to the Kabul airport and that our allies support his management handling of the crisis are verifiably false. Americans deserve accountability and transparency, not continued lies and failure.”

Sen. Dan Sullivan, Alaska Republican, called Mr. Biden‘s views “disconnected from the reality on the ground.”

“Right now, thousands of Americans and our Afghan partners stand in harm’s way on a tarmac in Kabul, or worse, in Taliban-controlled areas elsewhere in the country as America’s standing in the world erodes,” he said.