It couldn’t have been much fun being Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday. First, he was eviscerated in a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting by Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) over the disastrous U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan—for which finally Blinken expressed regret—but then he was grilled by Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) over the estimated “tens of billions” of U.S. taxpayer dollars he says the Biden-Harris regime has been funneling to the Taliban.
Mast, who was elected Tuesday to become the new chair of the Foreign Relations Committee in January, asked if Blinken had even been to Afghanistan since America’s 2021 ill-fated pullout, which left 13 American servicemen dead from an ISIS suicide bomb. Blinken admitted he had not, and that we are not in control of the U.S. embassy there.
Then Mast drilled down:
“There’s an American citizen out…
