Hannity: Taliban knew they'd be 'obliterated' if they reared their head under Trump

Fox News host Sean Hannity said Tuesday that the bombshell Reuters report revealing that President Biden expressed a desire to manipulate the "perception" of the Taliban’s progress in Afghanistan, "whether it is true or not," during a phone call with former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, proves he knew things were “going south” less than four weeks before Kabul fell to the Taliban.

According to a transcript of the July 23 presidential call reviewed by Reuters, Biden didn’t anticipate the Taliban’s rapid advance across Afghanistan, which ended when they stormed Kabul on Aug. 15 and then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the presidential palace. Instead, Biden focused much of his 14-minute call with Ghani on the Afghan government’s "perception" problem, Reuters reported. "I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban," Biden said. "And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture."