Ep. 571 - Joe Biden just literally stole $7 BILLION from Afghanistan
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Let me speak plainly. Not a single Afghan served as a hijacker on 9/11. Not 1.You know who did? 15 Saudis? And men from half a dozen other countries. But notice that they aren't having their assets frozen and stolen? It's despicable. And it's theft, plain and simple.
Not only that, but RIGHT NOW, in part because this money was frozen, Afghanistan is experiencing the single worst famine in the world. The entire country is in shambles.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't often talk about American foreign policy on this show. |
| 0:07.0 | I very much focus on domestic issues of racial justice and all the many tentacles of it. |
| 0:16.0 | But Joe Biden announced something so outrageous, so ridiculous, so unethical, |
| 0:25.0 | so gross it's a form of theft, a multi-billion dollar theft. |
| 0:31.0 | And I want to unpack and explain it. |
| 0:33.0 | Joe Biden announced that he is about to issue an executive order, |
| 0:37.0 | that the United States is effectively going to steal billions and billions of dollars from Afghanistan. |
| 0:45.0 | This is not hyperbole. |
| 0:47.0 | I'll read to you from the Associated Press reports, |
| 0:51.0 | but it's despicable and is happening right before our very eyes. |
| 0:55.0 | Let me unpack and explain it. I am frustrated. |
| 0:58.0 | This is Sean King, and you are listening to... |
| 1:01.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:03.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:07.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:10.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:19.0 | You may recall that just a few months ago, the United States pulled its military out of Afghanistan. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm all for that. |
| 1:30.0 | I think the destruction that was done to that nation is despicable. |
| 1:36.0 | Billions and billions, hundreds of billions of dollars actually. |
| 1:40.0 | It's already been spent and wasted there. |
| 1:43.0 | If you go to Afghanistan or speak to anybody who is an expert on the state of their country |
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