MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan’s attempt to ‘but Trump’ over the Taliban isn’t the slam dunk he hoped it’d be

Guess they decided.

The Biden administration’s not looking too good today … which means it’s up to the members of his Media Palace Guard to help out with the damage control.

Enter MSNBC/Peacock host Mehdi Hasan, mop and broom in hand:

The Taliban are murderous war criminals, yes. Weird then that your boss Trump wanted to host them at Camp David. https://t.co/k8eY9di8Ir

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 12, 2021

First of all, Donald Trump was widely denounced by conservatives for even entertaining the idea of hosting the Taliban at Camp David, on the anniversary of 9/11, no less. So that line of argument from Hasan is pretty weak.

In addition to that, though, there’s also the fact that Hasan’s criticism rings decidedly hollow given what Hasan had to say about the Taliban just a little over a year ago. Maybe Hasan forgot, but Noam Blum didn’t:

Let's go to the jury on how you felt about this at the time: https://t.co/rJel20Gbxq

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) August 12, 2021

Yes, let’s:

For years, those of us who said – from the very beginning! – to negotiate with the Taliban to end/resolve conflict were mocked and dismissed and smeared as Taliban apologists and yet, now, a hawkish right-wing Republican Secretary of State is FaceTiming with them. Oh the irony. https://t.co/atag6ISyWJ

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 3, 2020

So, Mehdi Hasan was in favor of negotiating with murderous terrorists a year ago, and now that the murderous terrorists are doing murderous terrorism in Afghanistan again, negotiating with them was some crazy, toxic Trump idea? Oh come now, Mehdi. You don’t get to play that game.

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— Corporal Punishment (@CplPunishment_) August 12, 2021