Three members of Congress who represent Georgia and Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives said Monday that U.S. President Joe Biden must resign from office.
This, after Biden decided to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
U.S. Representative Jody Hice (R-GA-10) told The Star News by email that Biden should vacate his position.
“The catastrophe unfolding in Afghanistan will go down as one of the most shameful foreign policy disasters in American history, and the responsibility for this debacle falls squarely on President Joe Biden,” Hice said.
“His utter incompetence has doomed millions of Afghans to the Taliban’s tyrannical rule and debased 20 years of tremendous sacrifice by American military personnel.”
U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) (pictured above) said via email that Biden should resign.
Rep. Green’s press secretary told The Tennessee Star in an email on Monday, “Rep. Green believes President Biden should resign.”
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) also told The Star News on Monday that Biden needs to go.
“The way the withdrawal from Afghanistan has played out is an absolute travesty. This is President Biden’s fault and it didn’t have to happen this way. As the world watched this crisis unfold, President Biden was nowhere to be found. His continued weakness has allowed the Taliban to retake Afghanistan and has stranded Americans and our Afghani allies alike,” Harshbarger said.
“With failures like this, many will find it hard to trust the United States going forward. President Obama’s former defense secretary once said that Biden has been wrong about every major foreign policy decision in the last four decades, and this continues to be true. Given this, Biden should resign.”
The Star News contacted each member of Tennessee’s and Georgia’s Congressional delegations Monday, but not all of them replied. The ones who did answer stated the following, via email:
• U.S. Representative Austin Scott (R-GA-08): Members of Scott’s staff referred us to his tweet on Sunday in which he said “@SpeakerPelosi must call Congress back now. Tough questions need to be asked and answered. Anything else is nothing other than partisan protection of Biden regardless of the consequences to America.”
• U.S. Representative Buddy Carter (R-GA-01): Carter said in a statement that “this is President Biden’s Saigon. Americans are witnessing the failure of his leadership and his weakness on the world stage. President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is an unmitigated disaster that lacked planning, forethought, and strategy. It squandered 20 years of service and sacrifice of our brave servicemen and women. It effectively torched trillions of taxpayer dollars. But worst of all it was completely avoidable. The damage is done and Biden is to blame.”
• U.S. Representative David Scott (R-GA-13): Scott said by email that the United States “has a moral imperative and humanitarian duty to facilitate a safe evacuation and resettlement for vulnerable Afghans fleeing unimaginable horrors at the hands of the Taliban and to provide protection for Afghan partners who have helped us.”
• U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02): Burchett’s staff referred The Star News to his tweet Monday in which he said “President Biden was clear in his speech: he wants credit for getting American troops out of Afghanistan without taking responsibility for his sloppy withdrawal. You can’t blame everyone but yourself and then claim, the buck stops with me.’”
• U.S. Representative David Kustoff (R-TN-08): Kustoff said in a statement that “Biden’s strategy in Afghanistan, and lack thereof, has put many innocent lives at risk and has enabled the Taliban to enact complete chaos and brutal violence. These last few days and today in Afghanistan resemble the fall of Saigon, a dark time in American and international history. It is evident that there was no clear American strategy from the Biden Administration to wind down American troops from Afghanistan. Without a doubt, there has been a clear dereliction of duty and responsibility demonstrated by President Biden and members of his administration. Because of President Biden’s poor planning and lack of leadership, the world is a much more dangerous place today.”
Claire Hurley, spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA-09), said the congressman “does not have [a] comment at this time, but we will reach out if that changes.
U.S. Representative Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ-02) told FOX News this past weekend that Biden and several other Democrat leaders must resign due to the events in Afghanistan.
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected].
