Gohmert weighs in on Afghanistan, calls for Biden’s resignation

WASHINGTON, D.C. — East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert joins the chorus of those strongly criticizing President Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal policy. In fact, he’s now calling on President Biden to resign. During a news conference this week, Gohmert said, “The answer is to say to the Taliban, as President Trump did, ‘…You harm American citizens, we’re gonna do tremendous harm to you.’ We’re quite capable. We’ve done that with aerial support; it can be done again. But in the meantime, we don’t need American soldiers, once all the Americans are out, to stay in Afghanistan. We just need to arm our allies instead of doing like the Carter Administration did, the Obama Administration did, and now the Biden Administration is doing — arming our enemies to come hit us again.”

Gohmert called for the President’s resignation in a news release issued late Thursday afternoon, shortly after Biden spoke to media about the attack at the Kabul airport. As quoted in the release, Gohmert said, “The tragedy that happened today at the Kabul airport was completely avoidable. The President had the power to prevent this attack but refused to listen to the people that knew how it could be avoided. He trusted the Taliban with our service members’ lives. Now precious lives have been lost.”