by Nikki Schwab at The Daily Mail
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden left Friday afternoon from Delaware for a long weekend at Camp David, as the president’s planned withdrawal from Afghanistan is becoming a crisis.
Taliban fighters are closing in on Kabul, while more then 3,000 American troops are expected to arrive in the country this weekend, even though the Biden administration has set an August 31 deadline for all US forces to leave.
As the Bidens were departing from Delaware Air National Guard, the White House sent out a statement saying the president had been briefed about ‘the ongoing efforts to safely drawdown the civilian footprint in Afghanistan.’
The statement said the president will be briefed again once he arrives at Camp David and is planned to stay there until Wednesday, according to the White House schedule.
Biden has repeatedly said he has no regrets about pushing ahead with his timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in America’s longest war.
But on Friday insurgents claimed Kandahar, the country’s second biggest city, Herat, close to the Iranian border, and Ghazni, on the road south from Kabul.
The result is a growing humanitarian emergency and frantic efforts to evacuate western embassies. U.S. personnel are preparing to destroy documents, computers and any sensitive information that could be useful or used as propaganda by the Taliban.
The first lady was spotted with a walking boot and crutch, marking the first time she’s been seen publicly since she injured her foot on a Hawaii beach.
She sported a white Michael Kors sundress and wore a sneaker on her uninjured right foot.
Three days after Dr. Biden returned from her whirlwind trip to Alaska, the Tokyo Olympics and Hawaii, she traveled to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to have a puncture wound cleaned out of her foot…
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