[NYP] Erik Prince, the co-founder of defense contractor Blackwater, ​is responding after the White House took a shot at him for offering to fly people out of Afghanistan on charter flights for $6,500 a seat — recalling that his contractors once rescued Biden from Taliban territory.
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Prince, a former Navy SEAL, added that the Biden administration’s ​bungling of the evacuation operation and the president’s refusal to extend the deadline have "shattered the confidence" of America’s allies. ​​
"So we have shattered the confidence of our European allies and every other ally around the world that America depends, whether you’re a CIA agent trying to recruit somebody to work for you or whether you’re a country that America wants you to compete with — to side with us versus something that the Chinese want — it will definitely figure into people’s thinking how quickly America abandoned its friends in Afghanistan and left in such a horribly chaotic and clumsy manner​," Prince told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in an interview Wednesday night.​​
He also pointed out that Blackwater ​soldiers had to rescue Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel when they got lost in a snowstorm in 2008. |