It’s no secret that Joe Biden is corrupt. But now we’re learning just how corrupt he really is.
And the skeletons in Biden’s closet have finally been exposed as damaging reports from his administration have surfaced.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly offered to resign from the Biden administration following the chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to The Washington Post’s David Ignatius.
Ignatius spoke with Sullivan and several of his colleagues as the Biden administration approaches the end of its term.
Several of Sullivan’s colleagues reportedly confirmed to Ignatius that he had offered to step down. However, President Biden insisted that Sullivan remain in his role, the report states.
The Afghanistan withdrawal, which resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen American service members and allowed the Taliban to regain control of the country, caused significant strain within the administration.
Ignatius noted that the withdrawal “broke the early comity” of Biden’s national security team, creating tension between Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Reflecting on the withdrawal, Sullivan told Ignatius, “You cannot end a war like Afghanistan, where you’ve built up dependencies and pathologies, without the end being complex and challenging. The choice was: Leave, and it would not be easy, or stay forever.”
Sullivan also defended the decision, adding, “leaving Kabul freed the [United States] to deal with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in ways that might have been impossible if we had stayed.”
Ignatius reported that the Pentagon initially resisted Biden’s directive to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, advocating instead for “a residual force of 2,500 in Kabul.”
Sullivan reportedly shared these concerns early on, according to two close advisers cited by Ignatius. However, he ultimately aligned with Biden’s plan for a full withdrawal, working to implement the decision “loyally.”
Notably, Wall Street Journal national security reporter Alex Ward offered a conflicting perspective.
Ward, who authored The Internationalists, a book on Biden’s foreign policy team, stated that the advisers he interviewed for the book said no one in the administration had offered to resign over the Afghanistan decision.
Jake “Sullivan offered to resign” after the Afghanistan withdrawal, @IgnatiusPost reports.
If true, that would be very different from what many advisers told me for THE INTERNATIONALISTS, which is that no one in admin offered to resign. https://t.co/8YqMrVyxA6
— Alex Ward (@alexbward) December 31, 2024
Toward the conclusion of his conversation with Ignatius, Sullivan offered a broader evaluation of his tenure.
“Are our alliances stronger? Yes. Are our enemies weaker? Yes. Did we keep America out of war? Yes. Did we improve our strategic position in the competition with China while stabilizing the relationship? Yes. Did we strengthen the engines of American economic and technological power? Yes,” he stated.
These of course are viewpoints that most Americans would disagree with, hence why the Democrats lost the 2024 elections so badly.
But as debates over the Afghanistan withdrawal continue, Sullivan’s reported offer to resign sheds light on the intense challenges and internal divisions that marked a defining moment for the Biden administration.
This defining moment will likely live up as Joe Biden and his administration’s greatest failure during a presidential term that was plagued with many failures.
Stay tuned to the Conservative Column.
