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Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday talks are ongoing with the Taliban over a request for support to run Kabul airport once foreign forces have left the country.

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that his successor President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is the “single most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.”

Americans who chose to ignore repeated public evacuation notices and no travel notices months before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan are at fault for getting stranded in the chaos-ridden country, top State Department officials suggested this week.

During his press conference on Thursday following the terrorist attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. servicemembers, President Biden blamed his generals for the decision to leave Bagram Air Base behind and did not deny reports that his administration gave the Taliban a list of Americans stranded in the region.

The president spoke for about twenty minutes before taking questions from the press but ultimately struggled when asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy to take responsibility for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the 24 students ranging in age from preschool to high school with 12 parents from the Cajon Valley Union School District in California, trapped in Afghanistan, were “very inappropriate” for ignoring warnings from the State Department.

Former CIA analyst Matt Zeller said Thursday on MSNBC that the gates at Kabul’s international airport were being “welded shut” as roughly 175,000 people in the country still need to be evacuated.

Former first lady Melania Trump said her family is praying for U.S. troops who were killed in a terror attack on Thursday in Afghanistan.

Some Afghan refugees piled up at the Pakistani border – which has been covered much less than the deadly airport chaos in Kabul, but is also crowded and dangerous – said on Thursday they may return home to live under Taliban rule.

During a press conference, Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie said that the United States “shares a common purpose” with the Taliban terrorists, admitting they are “useful to work with.”

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for Thursday’s bombings in Kabul on Thursday afternoon, using its official “news agency,” Amaq.

The U.S. Treasury Department reportedly gave humanitarian organizations its approval to provide aid for Afghanistan this week, despite sanctions against the Taliban that would make many of the needed financial transactions technically illegal.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), in perhaps her most forceful call yet, called on President Biden and several members of his administration to either resign immediately or face impeachment following reports of a “number” of U.S. and civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the attacks at the airport in Kabul.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for President Biden’s resignation on Thursday after terrorist blasts at the airport in Kabul resulted in a number of U.S. and civilian casualties, noting that the 78-year-old commander in chief has “now overseen the deadliest day for U.S. troops in Afghanistan in over a decade, and the crisis grows worse by the hour.”

The General said he did not know if the Taliban let the bombers through to the Kabul airport and conduct attacks that killed U.S. service members.

A Taliban leader claimed Wednesday the terrorist organization wanted to “build the future, and forget what happened in the past.”

Gen. Kenneth McKenzie stated Thursday in a Pentagon press briefing the Taliban are providing security at the Kabul airport, while the U.S. military shares intelligence with them.  

Republican Rep. Roger Williams (TX), in a statement on Thursday, called for President Joe Biden to “resign or be legally removed” following his “lacks the fortitude to keep America safe.”

Both the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issued woke-filled statements about “Women’s Equality Day.”

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the terrorist group “strongly condemns” the suicide bombings outside Kabul’s international airport in a statement Thursday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that Britain’s own airlift will continue unchanged despite Thursday afternoon’s bombing. 

Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) called for the “immediate resignation” of President Joe Biden’s National Security team and that they be held responsible for the “danger and chaos that they have needlessly created” during their “botched withdrawal,” saying Americans “expect and deserve better.”

Jens Stoltenberg, head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), called on nations to continue the effort to rescue their citizens from the grip of the Taliban on Thursday following multiple bombings at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Thursday that Congress must immediately pass Rep. Mike Gallagher’s (R-WI) bill to protect American troops after a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Charter flights leaving Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, have reportedly left hundreds of seats open onboard.

An internal United Nations document reveals that Taliban terrorists have physically assaulted U.N. staffers in Afghanistan, Reuters reported on Wednesday, having claimed to obtain the document.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged the Biden administration to reestablish U.S. presence in Bagram and predicting that “those involved in the operation would gladly accept that risk because it would restore our honor as a nation and save lives.”

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday he was praying for those hurt during the terrorist attacks at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, adding America must do “whatever it takes” to protect its troops and citizens stranded “in this disastrous withdrawal.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik condemned Biden as an “unfit” leader who “has blood on his hands” after two bombings occurred in Kabul on Thursday.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence has said that no British military or govt employees were killed at the double bomb-blast by Kabul airport.

U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ross Wilson is now blaming those Americans who are stranded in Afghanistan for being stranded in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported on Thursday morning that most of the 25 people killed during the past ten days in attacks and stampedes around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul were women and children.

The Taliban terror group recently promised to support Pakistan in its efforts to “conquer” Kashmir, a disputed Western Himalayan region, the leader of Pakistan’s ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), claimed Tuesday.

Christians stranded in Afghanistan have been turning off their phones and fleeing to local hill country to avoid being tracked and hunted down by the Taliban, a human rights group reported this week.

Reports this week indicate the Afghan economy is not faring well under Taliban domination, thanks to a combination of public terror, Taliban mismanagement, and the termination of foreign aid programs that were propping up civil services.

Republican lawmakers quickly reacted to the reports of terror outside the Kabul airport in Afghanistan, where thousands of American citizens and allies remain stranded as the Biden administration aims to stick to the Taliban’s August 31 deadline, concluding President Biden’s “incompetence has now cost American lives.”