Graham: Biden ‘has signed the death warrant for thousands of Afghans who helped us’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) condemned President Biden on Tuesday over the thousands of Afghan allies still in Afghanistan while the U.S. struggles to complete its evacuations under the new Taliban rule. 

“President Biden has signed the death warrant for thousands of Afghans who helped us. He’s washing his hands of Afghanistan at our peril as a nation,” Graham told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. 

The U.S. has evacuated thousands of Afghan allies and U.S. citizens who were still in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over earlier this month, but thousands more remain, and they are reportedly having a difficult time getting to the Kabul airport to evacuate.

The Taliban have reportedly set up checkpoints and have been beating and threatening Afghans who try to flee. 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that about 1,500 Americans remain in Afghanistan and are waiting to be evacuated.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called on Biden to extend the current deadline for evacuations — set for next Tuesday — but the president said just hours before Graham’s Fox News appearance that he is sticking with the current timetable.

“What he has said today is that he is going to leave the 31st of August because the Taliban told him he had to get out. There’s no way in hell we get all the American citizens out. We’re going to leave thousands of Afghans who fought along our side behind. And we’re setting the table for the rise of al Qaeda and ISIS to attack us down the road,” Graham stated.

“They’re coming after us, and Joe Biden has left us naked and blind in Afghanistan,” he continued, saying Biden “should be impeached” over his handling of the withdrawal.

“This is dereliction of duty by the commander in chief. This makes it harder to fight future wars. Who’s going to help us in the future after we abandon our friends in Afghanistan who fought bravely?” Graham asked.