BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – President Biden did not deny a report circulating that officials in his administration had provided names of Americans in Afghanistan to the Taliban in order to help usher them safely to the airport.
“There have been occasions where our military has contacted their military counterparts in the Taliban and said this bus is coming through…made up of the following group…let it through,” the president said. “Yes, there have been occasions like that.”
Biden added that in this case, he wanted the Taliban to know for sure who to let through, by not only giving them the names of the Americans left behind, he also gave them their bank account numbers, pin numbers, plus their credit card numbers along with the security code.