Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, August 16, 2021

Episode Date: August 16, 2021

The Taliban takes Afghanistan, Joe Biden blames the debacle on Donald Trump, the Durham Report moves forward, the Delta Variant targets younger Americans, Europeans protest vaccine passports. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, Donald Trump speaks to Bill on the fall of Afghanistan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here Monday, August 16th, 2021. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Here's what's happening today in America. The Taliban takes over Afghanistan. Joe Biden blames a debacle on Donald Trump. The Durham report finally moves forward. The Delta variant targets younger Americans, Europeans, protests vaccine passports. Also ahead. I spoke with, former President Trump about Afghanistan. I will have a special report today. On that note, the president of Afghanistan fleeing the country as Taliban fighters entered the capital city of Kabul. The terrorists now control Afghanistan. As American forces leave after two decades of combat, there is panic at the airport right now. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken,

defending President Biden's decision to quickly pull out, tell the reporters, this is not Saigon. I will have a commentary as mentioned on that shortly. Now, Mr. Biden released a statement on Afghanistan blamed the chaos on Donald Trump. You may remember in July, Mr. Biden himself told the nation Afghanistan would not collapse. Obviously, he was wrong. The Wall Street Journal reporting special counsel, John Durham, appointed during the Trump administration to investigate corruption in the Russian collusion situation. Well, Durham apparently is presenting evidence to a grand jury that signals there may be a criminal charge or charges in this very, very long investigation. Record number of younger Americans now hospitalized with COVID. The group largely avoided the disease,

in the early days, but now the Delta variant seems to be targeting them. Health experts say low vaccination rates and the highly contagious strain now impacting the 30-somethings. 70,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID. 90% of them unvaccinated. Demonstrators in Paris protesting vaccine passports for the fifth straight week. Police now demanding residents display the digital document and most public places. places. The rules apply to restaurants, theaters, bars, gym, on and on. Similar measures are being planned in the USA, Germany, the UK, Spain, and New York City already has a vaccine mandate. In a moment, the disaster in Afghanistan. Right back with it.

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but then decided to nation bill, that is, try to give the Afghan people a shot at democracy. A big mistake. Afghanistan is primarily a tribal country. Most are poorly educated there and devoted to a primitive form of Islam. The people in Afghanistan have little allegiance to a central government. They basically support warlords in their areas.

America has spent almost $2 trillion trying to bring freedom to Afghanistan. Now, about 2,500 U.S. service people were killed in trying to do that. many more wounded. About 3,500 private contractors, people from the West working in Afghanistan, were also killed. President Trump, when he took office, declared he wanted to get the USA out of Afghanistan. You'll remember that. And so, he began to negotiate a deal with the Taliban to make that happen. The negotiations were held in Gutter, an Arab nation on the Persian Gulf. The negotiation said that the Taliban would not wage war on Americans and would cooperate with a coalition government.

The problem was the Afghan government itself that America had protected was not involved in the negotiations. Donald Trump told me if he were president today, the Taliban would not have taken over the country because the deal was they would participate in a coalition government and if they did not, Mr. Trump said to me, he would punish them personally. That means the Taliban leadership would have been targeted by drones. When President Biden took office last January, he decided to fully withdraw from Afghanistan without any threats to the Taliban leadership. And so, once Biden got established, the Taliban began to assassinate key Afghans and take

over the country, which they did with stunning swiftness. the Afghan people are not going to fight for a central government in Kabul, and therefore the country collapsed. Whose fault is it? Well, it's at President Biden's doorstep. There is no question about it. I'm Bill O'Reilly, and I approve the message by writing it for more honest news analysis. Please visit Bill O'Reilly.com, where we will have a lot more. about this incredible Afghan situation. In a moment, something you might not know. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast,

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