The Candice Malcolm Show - Trudeau prioritizes his vanity election over the crisis in Afghanistan

00:00:00.000 A humanitarian crisis has unfolded in Afghanistan. It's horrible. And rather than providing aid and

00:00:06.080 assistance to the people of Afghanistan, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is too busy holding

00:00:11.020 a vanity election. I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

00:00:19.040 The Taliban, perhaps the most oppressive, backwards, and barbaric of all the Islamic 1.00

00:00:24.280 groups in the entire world, has seized control of Afghanistan. Kabul fell on Sunday morning,

00:00:29.520 making their takeover complete. It's been 20 years since 9-11 and nearly 20 years since Western

00:00:35.540 forces removed the terrorist Taliban government in Afghanistan. And now just like that, the Taliban 0.71

00:00:41.540 is back. So in April of this year, Joe Biden, US President, announced a full US withdrawal from

00:00:48.440 Afghanistan and that it would be complete by September 11th. On May 1st, US troops began that

00:00:54.160 withdrawal. On July 6th, the US Bagram Air Force Base was evacuated. On August 8th, the Taliban 0.53

00:01:00.800 seized control of provincial capitals. And then it happened very quickly. On Friday, August 13th,

00:01:06.600 Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban. And just two days later,

00:01:11.560 on Sunday, August 15th, Kabul, the largest city in the capital city, fell to the Taliban,

00:01:16.200 and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Just like that, the terrorists were back in control.

00:01:23.240 And I'm sure you've seen the footage on the ground in Kabul in Afghanistan. It is truly terrifying.

00:01:28.420 Just look at the chaotic scene at the Kabul airport yesterday. I've never seen anything like

00:01:33.180 this in my entire life. So amidst all the chaos yesterday, thousands of Afghans rushed to bank

00:01:39.400 machines to try to pull out their money. Thousands rushed to the airport to try to flee the Taliban,

00:01:45.020 including former government officials who will almost certainly be arrested or killed by the

00:01:49.600 Taliban. Young children can be seen trying to jump the barricade to enter the airport.

00:01:54.360 Thousands of people were on the tarmac, desperate, trying to cling to the wheels of an aircraft

00:01:59.800 taking off because they were so desperate to get out of the country. According to reports on the

00:02:04.520 ground, three people died after falling off a wing of an airplane that they were holding onto

00:02:09.100 after it had taken off. The US troops and Taliban forces exchanged live fire close to the

00:02:14.780 airport. And in total, nine people were killed in the airport on Monday. It's hard to overstate

00:02:19.120 what has happened in Afghanistan. Overnight, the country has gone back to the dark age. 1.00

00:02:24.440 Just look at this photo. It says a thousand words. This is CNN reporter Clarissa Ward.

00:02:29.480 Just look at the pictures. One is taken before the fall of Kabul. One is taken after. I'll read

00:02:34.640 from Ronna Ambrose, a former conservative leader who described it perfectly. This is what she wrote.

00:02:39.900 This is what happens when the Taliban take over. Same reporter, Clarissa Ward. Same TV channel,

00:02:45.480 CNN. Same city. Before and after the capture of Kabul. They won, we lost. Decades of fighting and 0.61

00:02:52.060 working towards women's rights and a civil society with freedoms all gone. What are we as a Western 0.99

00:02:57.160 society if we stand by and let this happen? Self-absorbed, insular, and entitled. That's what

00:03:03.040 we are. And then she writes, shameful. Now, speaking of self-absorbed, insular, and entitled,

00:03:10.120 take a look at this report about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the Toronto Sun. It says PMO

00:03:16.380 Global Affairs, the Department of Global Affairs, holding off deploying Canadian Armed Forces Kabul

00:03:21.500 evacuation team, according to sources. So Sunday's writ drop and the ongoing federal election campaign

00:03:27.680 is consuming most of the bandwidth among Ontario politicians, sources say. Yes, that's right,

00:03:34.300 folks. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is too busy engineering a vanity election in pursuit of a

00:03:40.140 majority government to lend a hand and to help the poor people of Afghanistan. I call it a vanity 1.00

00:03:46.000 election because it's one that Trudeau himself has forced. The government did not fall. He did not lose

00:03:51.500 the confidence of the House of Commons. The opposition parties still had confidence in the government.

00:03:57.060 In fact, both opposition parties, the Conservative and the NDP, they both opposed this election and

00:04:02.320 they both pleaded with Justin Trudeau to wait. But instead, Trudeau thought that he was riding high

00:04:07.680 in the polls and his popularity was strong enough to give him that majority government and so he himself

00:04:12.420 triggered this election and right now we're seeing the impact of it in Afghanistan. The Trudeau

00:04:18.160 government is too preoccupied with this election to be able to focus on saving lives and rescuing people

00:04:24.360 from a war zone. And not just any old war zone. A region that Canada has invested two decades. We've invested

00:04:30.860 18 billion dollars. We sent 40,000 troops to Afghanistan and we left 158 souls behind. That's what's at stake here.

00:04:41.760 That's what Trudeau is walking away from so that he can focus on this election. And it gets even worse. We knew this

00:04:48.700 retreat was happening. We've known for the past five months that the U.S. was planning to remove their troops.

00:04:53.760 And for those five months, the Conservative opposition has been pushing Trudeau to follow through on a pledge

00:04:58.820 to bring Afghan interpreters, the individuals who helped Canadian troops on the ground, to help them

00:05:04.400 come to Canada and resettle them into our country. Trudeau dragged his feet on that promise and now for too many 0.99

00:05:10.220 of them, it is too late. As an afterthought and in an incredibly callous and cynical fashion, the Trudeau

00:05:17.420 liberals then announced that they would welcome 20,000 Afghan refugees. Their hope is that you're 0.98

00:05:23.300 too stupid to realize that this will not help the people of Afghanistan in any way, shape or form. 1.00

00:05:30.340 I say that because when you read the fine print about the 20,000 refugee promise, you see that the 20,000 0.99

00:05:35.800 refugees will come from camps, people who have already left Afghanistan, people who have already 0.98

00:05:41.360 fled the country. So Trudeau's pledge will not help any of those people that you saw at the airport,

00:05:45.460 any of those people from those clips. They will not be helped at all, at all, by Justin Trudeau and his

00:05:51.160 pledge. And it's not just those poor people at the airport who are desperate to get out. Trudeau's

00:05:56.280 hollow pledge will not help girls or women in Afghanistan who have instantly lost their right

00:06:01.360 to an education, along with many other basic rights. They will be soon forced to cover up,

00:06:06.700 shut up and submit. And then here, this is the very worst part. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's

00:06:13.020 feminist government says that it is too early to tell whether or not they will recognize the Taliban

00:06:20.100 as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Check out this incredible interview with the CBC's

00:06:25.920 Katie Simpson and Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, Mark Garneau. Now credit where credit is due,

00:06:30.560 I'm no fan of the CBC, but Simpson did an incredible job in this interview. And it's very telling that

00:06:36.220 the Liberal government is considering recognizing the Taliban as legitimate. 0.78

00:06:41.260 The U.S. had warned the Taliban if Afghanistan was taken by force, it would not be recognized

00:06:46.840 internationally. Will Canada refuse to recognize a Taliban government?

00:06:53.100 Well, thank you, Katie, for the question. I would say to you, it's early days. Right now,

00:06:58.200 we want to see what happens. The country has essentially surrendered to the Taliban. The Taliban

00:07:04.160 is saying that it wants to run as a government, but we're going to wait and see. It's too early

00:07:09.460 to answer that question.

00:07:11.100 Do you, you're waiting to see. Do you, do you, are you going to treat the Taliban with credibility?

00:07:17.100 Well, we have to see how they behave since they have taken over the country. Certainly,

00:07:23.280 their, their behavior was totally unacceptable for the short time that they were in charge after the

00:07:28.980 Russians left about 20 years ago. So we'll wait and see. Wow, just wow. It's too early to say 0.67

00:07:36.040 whether the Canadian government will recognize the Taliban in Afghanistan. We'll just have to wait

00:07:40.280 and see what happens. We don't need to wait and see what will happen. We know who the Taliban are. 0.98

00:07:45.020 We've seen them in action for decades, oppressing girls and women, killing civilians, executing 0.75

00:07:50.620 prisoners, harboring the world's most evil terrorists. The Taliban is the group that shot

00:07:55.820 human rights activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai in the face for the crime of being a 0.78

00:08:02.140 girl and wanting an education. We don't need to wait and see. It isn't too early to tell. We know

00:08:08.080 exactly who the Taliban are. They have been showing us for decades. And the fact that Trudeau,

00:08:14.860 doesn't recognize that he's either too confused, too focused on himself, too focused on his vanity

00:08:20.220 campaign to care is incredibly telling. It shows just how much of a failed prime minister he is.

00:08:26.900 And besides, he's already recognizing the Taliban. Watch this clip of Justin Trudeau pleading with

00:08:32.280 the Taliban to let people leave the country. And my follow up, will you recognize the Taliban 0.66

00:08:38.200 government or will like the US, will you refuse to recognize them? And will military and development

00:08:43.000 be cut off because of what's happening in the country? Right now, our expectation and demand

00:08:48.620 of the Taliban is that they permit, first of all, an end of violence and hostilities and restore 0.90

00:08:58.540 order to those who want to for those who want to leave Afghanistan. We need to see the Taliban step up 0.93

00:09:06.240 and permit an evacuation of those who want to leave. And that is what we are expecting of them.

00:09:12.480 And that, quite frankly, is part of the statement that Canada and many other countries released last

00:09:17.360 night. Our feminist prime minister telling the Taliban to step up. Why don't you step up, 1.00

00:09:23.580 prime minister? What a joke. What a narcissist. What a failed prime minister.

00:09:27.920 I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - August 17, 2021

Trudeau prioritizes his vanity election over the crisis in Afghanistan

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