'It took 11 days to take over Afghanistan, wonder how many it would take here?': Trump supporter threatens a Taliban-style takeover if former president isn't reinstated and warns 'we have millions of guns'
The pandemonium playing out in Afghanistan is giving at least one Trump supporter some ideas.
Some fans of the former president still believe he rightly won the 2020 election and will be reinstated, and at least one is threatening a Taliban-style coup if President Biden and Congress 'don't get their heads out of their butt.'
'I don't think there's going to be a 2024 election until we get the 2020 results,' Stephen Palmer, donning a graying beard, a vest with patchwork and a camouflage hat with an American flag on it, said outside of an 'America First' rally hosted in Des Moines, Iowa by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ga., and Matt Gaetz, Fla. on Thursday
'There's no way at this point to overturn the 2020 election, right?' CNN's Donie O'Sullivan asked the Trump super-fan.
'There's always a way,' Palmer replied, referencing the Arizona election audit.
Results from the highly criticized election audit were due Monday, but two members of the five-person audit team were 'quite sick' after testing positive for Covid-19.
'There's millions of guns here. You know, it took 11 days for them to take over Afghanistan. Wonder how many days — just asking for a friend — how many days it would take the patriots to take over this country. Think about it,' he continued.
'You don't want that to happen,' O'Sullivan responded.
“It took 11 days for them to take over Afghanistan… How many days would it take the patriots to take over this country?”
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) August 20, 2021
Outside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s event in Iowa last night, talk quickly turned from Covid restrictions to this. pic.twitter.com/s0Fmri40wq
“It took 11 days for them to take over Afghanistan… How many days would it take the patriots to take over this country?”
Outside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s event in Iowa last night, talk quickly turned from Covid restrictions to this. pic.twitter.com/s0Fmri40wq
'I don't want it to happen,' Palmer said, 'but if our country, our government, our Congress and Biden don't get their heads out of their butt, it's going to happen. I assure you. It's coming.'
The Taliban's lightning-fast takeover of Kabul has left heads spinning in President Biden's administration, as they fend off criticisms of the hasty withdrawal of US troops from all sides.
Palmer said he did go to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, but did not storm the Capitol building.
'I'm not vaccinated and I'm not gonna get vaccinated. Our days are numbered, whether it's Covid or I get in that truck and go down the highway and get hit by a semi and t-boned and killed. It don't matter you know, life is what it is, we take it how God gives it to us,' Palmer also told CNN.
'There's millions of guns here. You know, it took 11 days for them to take over Afghanistan. Wonder how many days — just asking for a friend — how many days it would take the patriots to take over this country. Think about it,' Stephen Palmer said outside a rally led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Trump super-fan Stephen Palmer said a Taliban-style takeover would besiege Washington if 'Congress and Biden don't get their heads out of their butt'
Former President Trump held his own rally in Cullman, Alabama where he said Biden's handling of Afhganistan was 'one of the most humiliating defeats of all time' and was booed by his own supporters for recommending they take the Covid-19 vaccine.
Greene had stopped by the Iowa State Fair before her rally at the Iowa Events Center, where many presidential hopefuls have laid the groundwork for a run in the first state in the nation to caucus.
When asked about her political career and whether or not she sees a future in the White House, Greene answered: 'My sole focus is putting America first and that means in any capacity.'
'America is failing the American people. I mean the Congress is, and so is the federal government,' she added.
Just one day before she and Gaetz appeared in Iowa, Greene posted a fiery video online criticizing Joe Biden for pulling out US troops from Afghanistan shortly before the Taliban sized control.
In the video, posted to right-wing social media site Gettr, Greene says: 'Joe Biden, you're not a president, you're a piece of s**t.'
Here’s a portion of a video Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on GETTR but not here on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/A9Hie7sJbo
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 18, 2021
Here’s a portion of a video Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on GETTR but not here on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/A9Hie7sJbo
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stopped by the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Thursday afternoon
'Thousands of Americans are stuck over there in Afghanistan, and you're letting the Taliban kick your ass, while you're lecturing governors about masks and vaccines. Do your job, bring these Americans home,' she added.
Meanwhile, former President Trump held his own rally in Cullman, Alabama where he was booed by his own supporters for recommending they take the Covid-19 vaccine.
'I believe totally in your freedoms, I do, you've got to do what you've got to do. But I recommend that you take the vaccines,' Trump said to the crowd, who replied with jeers.
'You've got your freedoms,' he responded. 'But I happened to take the vaccine.'
Also in Saturday's address, Trump blasted Biden over the disastrous withdrawal from and accused him of giving the U.S. military away to the Taliban.
'This will go down as one of the greatest military defeats of all time,' Trump said.
Trump called the situation in Afghanistan a humiliation, claiming it's not a withdrawal but rather 'a total surrender'.
The former President told the massive crowd gathered in the deep red state that 'this would have never happened if I was president.'
He said: 'The issue here is not whether to leave Afghanistan, the issue is Joe Biden's staggering incompetence and gross negligence ... creating the greatest strategic humiliation that we've ever seen as a country.'