Chris Cuomo compares Biden to Trump for 'feigning' Afghan withdrawal 'could not have gone better'

On Cuomo Prime Time Wednesday, Chris Cuomo chastised President Biden for sticking by his belief that nothing could have been done to prevent the chaos surrounding the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, particularly in the capital city of Kabul.

In an interview with ABC News Wednesday, Biden said, “I don’t think it could have been handled in a way that — we’re gonna go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there’s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens. I don’t know how that happens.”

While putting a fair share of blame on former President Trump for the shaky deal his administration made with the Taliban, Cuomo believes Biden bears blame for sticking to the withdrawal plan, and went on to compare Biden to Trump for his refusal to admit things may have gone wrong.

“Biden could have changed the deal, could have planned differently, could have likely avoided this degree of chaos, and the administration did not. Period,” Cuomo said. “And today, President Biden, frankly, sounded like President Trump, feigning that what we’re all seeing could not have gone any better.”

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CHRIS CUOMO: Today, President Biden frankly sounded like President Trump, feigning that what we're all seeing could not have gone any better.

KYLIE MAR: On "Cumo Primetime" Wednesday, Chris Cuomo compared President Joe Biden to former President Trump following an interview with ABC News in which Biden said the chaotic scenes unfolding in Afghanistan were unavoidable.

JOE BIDEN: We're going to go back in hindsight and look. But the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens.

KYLIE MAR: Though Cuomo chastised Biden for sounding like Trump, he also put some of the blame for the chaos in Afghanistan on the former president whose administration made a shaky withdrawal deal with the Taliban.

CHRIS CUOMO: It is fair to say Biden was given a bad hand by Trump and co. They made the deal with these terrorists. And then they started a major pullout even when the Taliban didn't do what they promised in that deal.

KYLIE MAR: Despite Trump's deal with the Taliban, Cuomo believes Biden should bear some blame for the chaos because he stuck with the plan.

CHRIS CUOMO: Biden could have changed the deal, could have planned differently, could have likely avoided this degree of chaos. And the administration did not, period.

KYLIE MAR: But former CIA counterterrorism official Phil Mudd who joined at the show and said Biden can't be judged on just the first few days.

PHILL MUDD: The question here is not whether the first couple of days went well. They did not. That is not the same question is whether in a month or two or two years or three years we look back and say, we got out the people we needed to get out. Let's slow down and fix it.