Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a Marine who was badly wounded in the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, recounts his odd encounter with President Joe Biden in a recent interview.
QUICK FACTS:
- In an interview on “The Shawn Ryan Show,” ex-Marine Tyler Vargas-Andrew, who was wounded in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021, shares about his bizarre encounter with President Biden in the hospital following the ordeal.
- “Right away, like, I remember him coming up to me, trying to shake my hand, like, he tried to shake my right hand” Vargas-Andrews, who had just lost his arm, recalled.
- “I look at him, and I’m like, ‘I don’t have an arm,’ and my left arm is in this big [expletive] cast with this giant, orange [expletive] foam block around it, completely immobile,” the wounded veteran continued.
- Vargas-Andrews also explains how during the visit Biden “immediately starts talking, like, about how their son served in the military.”
- The Marine added that the President didn’t “say anything about what happened” in Afghanistan.
- As the visit continues, Vargas-Andrews noted that his mother, who became increasingly frustrated with the encounter, demanded the President “better take care of him for the rest of his life.”
- “Biden leans over me, and he’s like this close to my face,” the Marine said. “And he’s like: ‘What do you want?’”
EX-MARINE TYLER VARGAS-ANDREWS ON HIS AWKWARD ENCOUNTER WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN AFTER LOSING HIS ARM IN AFGHANISTAN:
“Biden doesn’t greet me or anything, just, that’s what happened,” Vargas-Andrews said. “He just grabbed my fingers.”
BACKGROUND:
- Earlier last month, Biden claimed he made no mistakes over the Afghanistan withdrawal, which resulted in 13 American deaths and more injured.
- “Mr. President, do you admit failure in Afghanistan? Mistakes? There was a — there was a report on Afghanistan withdrawal, saying there was failure, mistakes. Do you admit there was mistakes during the withdrawal and before?” one journalist asked Biden.
- “No, no. All the evidence is coming back. Do you remember what I said about Afghanistan? I said al-Qaeda would not be there. I said it wouldn’t be there. I said we’d get help from the Taliban. What’s happening now? What’s going on? Read your press. I was right,” Biden replied.
- The President made his comments following the State Department’s release of an “after action review” of the bungled exit.
- The report, which focused on State Department actions, blamed both the Trump and Biden administrations for failing to plan for the worst-case scenarios.
