An unhinged ally to President Biden is pathetically trying to claim former President Trump and his supporters are more dangerous than Al Qaeda and the Taliban combined. David Rothkopf, a far-left columnist for The Daily Beast who has clearly lost touch with reality is doing what liberals do best in the face of their party’s clear failure; trying to flip the narrative to that so-called evil Republicans.
While Afghanistan has broken into all-out chaos under Taliban rule after Biden’s disaster of a withdrawal Rothkopf is busy attacking Republicans.
The Taliban, all of them together, plus every Al Qaeda fighter in the world, do not pose the threat to the United States that Trump or Trumpist extremists do. Let's maintain our perspective.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 20, 2021
Fox News reports:
Rothkopf, a Daily Beast contributing columnist and the CEO of The Rothkopf Group, an interactive media and advisory firm, has written several columns heaping praise on the Biden administration, which has gotten the attention of Klain. His columns also attacked Republicans, including one earlier this year that said the Republican Party is the “party of thugs, terrorists, racists and dopes.”
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In an email to Fox News on Wednesday, Rothkopf acknowledged that the “Taliban and Al Qaeda are among the most vile, dangerous violent extremist organizations in the world” and that they “pose a threat that must be taken very seriously and actively combatted.” However, he doubled down on his tweet and claimed they do not “pose an existential threat to the United States or our way of life” like Trump and his supporters do.
“Trump and his supporters have, with support of one America’s most dangerous enemies, actively sought to undermine democracy in America. The coup attempt on January 6th and the propagation of the Big Lie are an example of this,” he said. “Their efforts to suppress the vote are an example of this. Trump’s active obstruction of justice is an example of this. Should they succeed, democracy in America will be gutted, our way of life end, our values undermined and our standing in the world destroyed. They may yet succeed. As a consequence the threat they pose is far greater to the United States as a whole.”
Rothkopf continued by mentioning the hundreds of thousands of deaths from COVID-19 last year and claimed, “No terror group could ever hope to achieve such a level of damage” from Trump’s “mishandling of COVID” and “ignorance and self-serving spread of lies.”
It seems that Rothkopf might be the only journalist left on President Biden’s side. Even Politico accused the Biden administration of gaslighting as the President tries to claim he’s in control of the situation in Afghanistan despite the mountain of evidence and reports pointing to the exact opposite
Politico reports:
“I don’t think the president’s rhetoric matches the conditions on the ground,” said Jenna Ben-Yehuda, a 12-year veteran of the Bush and Obama State Department and president of the Truman Center, which is coordinating with other groups to try to evacuate Afghan allies.
“They keep saying this was inevitable, but there absolutely was a way to avoid this — if that’s not the definition of gaslighting I don’t what is,” said Chris Purdy, the project manager of the Veterans for American Ideals program at Human Rights First, which has been part of the coalition to help evacuate people from Afghanistan.
