Congressman Who Served In Afghanistan: Biden’s Actions Meet ‘Constitutional Definition Of Treason’
A US veteran who fought in Afghanistan and is now Florida representative said Democratic President Joe Biden should be removed from office because his actions that led to the chaotic and deadly Afghanistan pullout of US presence constitutes “treason.”
Rep. Brian Mast (Florida), who lost both of his legs while serving as a US Army in Afghanistan in 2010, told Fox News on Sunday that the claim of Biden that no one saw the Taliban taking over the country as quickly as they did was untrue as he slammed the president of being preoccupied with the optics of the situation instead.
Mast also blasted Biden over the US president’s phone call with Afghanistan’s president in July, where Biden reportedly encouraged the Afghan president to modify public perception of what was happening on the ground regarding the Taliban, whether this was accurate or not.
“Impeachment is absolutely something that should be considered. I would say no less than 10,000 counts of reckless endangerment, all of the American lives over there that’s the minimum, which is actually a real crime,” Mast said.
“Beyond that, as I’ve said already, I think we absolutely need to look at what is the truth about this phone call with the former Afghan president,” he added.
Mast currently serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Biden’s action: definition of “treason”
In his appearance on Fox News, the Florida lawmaker also reiterated that the Taliban is a “sworn enemy” of the United States despite the warming reception of the Biden administration to the terror group.
To recall, the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US – committed by 19 members of al-Qaeda, a group granted sanctuary in by Taliban-controlled Afghanistan – began the longest war in the country’s history.
The al-Qaeda members hijacked four commercial airliners in the US with two of the planes flown into the World Trade Center, collapsing both towers. The 3rd plane was flown into the Pentagon, the seat of the US Department of Defense.
A total of 2,977 people were killed in the attacks.
As the US marks 20 years since the deadly 9/11 attacks, America completed a chaotic pullout of US presence in Afghanistan — and the country, now back in the control of the Taliban.
GOP Rep. Mast: Biden Should Be Impeached for ‘Treason’ pic.twitter.com/zcSnmZzopD
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) September 6, 2021
“We know for a fact that the Taliban is the sworn enemy of the United States of America,” Mast said on Sunday.
“We are still in the midst of the war on terror, and as I said, I would absolutely consider the manipulation of intelligence, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, all three of those things are part of what meets the constitutional definition of treason,” he added.
Possible “element of dementia” cited
“You look at President Biden, and I would say these two things about him. He is hollow. His decisions are empty. They are void of wisdom in their entirety and across the board, we see a naïveté to the aggressors he’s dealing with,” Mast further said.
“Maybe there is an element of dementia there that we might hear about in years to come. But I would say at a minimum: This man appears to be schizophrenic with the statements that he’s making in front of one camera and the way that they’re directly changing in front of a camera on a different day or the day after that or what his members of his cabinet are saying,” he added.
“There’s definitely got to be schizophrenia there.”
Earlier, Mast joined other lawmakers demanding for Biden’s resignation over the Afghanistan debacle.
“President Biden doesn’t deserve to be commander-in-chief, but it’s not surprising that he, along with his senior Administration officials, are resisting calls to resign,” Mast said. “That would mean admitting that they have made mistakes and taking responsibility for this disaster. They haven’t done that up to this point, so Congress must now hold them accountable.”
