US Secretary of State Blinken mistakens Ghani as Hamid Karzai in interview slip-up | Watch

In a slip-up, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken referred to Ashraf Ghani as Hamid Karzai, who led Afghanistan’s first government after the Taliban were overthrown in 2001, while he was speaking in an interview and was talking about the Afghan president fleeing the country.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a TV interview, mistakenly referred to ousted Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani as Hamid Karzai, who led Afghanistan’s first government after the Taliban were overthrown in 2001 and was president until 2014. Sect @SecBlinken says Karzai fled the country, mistaking him for Ghani.As much as one detests Ashraf Ghani and his imported minions for their utter incompetence, the Biden admin’s idiotic efforts to come clean makes them look innocent. pic.twitter.com/aDB2OAwttO While speaking on the evacuations in Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a slip-up, said Hamid Karzai fled the country when the government fell to the Taliban.