Tim Kennedy on afghanistan: what the evidence says · JRE #1833
FACT CHECK // JRE #1833 // EXHIBIT LOG
EPISODE AIRED JUN 16, 2022 · THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE
CLAIM CMRIBAEASTATUS: PUBLISHED
SUBJECT: AFGHANISTAN
SUBJECT: AFGHANISTAN
RulingNeeds Context
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
that was the initial promise. And 10 days later, we moved 12,000 people out of Afghanistan, 11% of everybody that left the country during the evacuation
Tim Kennedy@ 31:14
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Kennedy co-founded Save Our Allies, a volunteer group of veterans that assisted in evacuating people from Afghanistan during the August 2021 airlift. NPR reported that the overall Kabul evacuation moved over 120,000 people in about two weeks. Kennedy's claimed 12,000 figure comes from his own account and is not independently verified in the available reporting, but taken at face value it works out to roughly 10% of the ~120,000+ total NPR cites, close to but somewhat below the 11% Kennedy states on the podcast.