Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called on the Taliban to stop blocking charter flights containing Americans from departing Afghanistan.

The State Department has come under fire for not doing more to pressure the Taliban to allow planes to leave Afghanistan amid reports several planes carrying Americans have been stuck at Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport in Kabul.

Blinken said during a press conference Wednesday at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany that the U.S. government has "made clear" to the Taliban that "these charters need to be able to depart."

"Those flights need to be able to leave, and the United States government, State Department – we are doing everything we can to help make that happen," he said. "Those flights need to move. I pointed out some of the complications that are there, but those flights need to move."

Blinken’s comments came after he confirmed Tuesday that the State Department had identified a "relatively" small number of Americans trying to evacuate from Mazar-e-Sharif, but he denied the Taliban was creating "any hostage-like situation."

"It's my understanding that the Taliban has not denied exit to anyone holding a valid document, but they have said that those without valid documents at this point can't leave – but because all of these people are grouped together, that's meant that flights have not been allowed to go," he said.

Blinken says:

“As of now, the Taliban are not permitting the charter flights to depart. They claim that some of the passengers do not have the required documentation. While there are limits to what we can do, without personnel on the ground, without an airport with normal security and procedures in place, we are working to do everything in our power to support those flights and to get them off the ground.”

Wait, did you catch what he said?

“While there are limits to what we can do, without personnel on the ground, without an airport with normal security and procedures in place…”

Are you kidding me? If I didn’t know better I’d say that was a slap aimed right a Coward-in-Chief Biden. But I do know better, which makes it even more absurd that he would say this. We just had personnel on the ground providing security and procedures so that we could fly Americans out of Kabul. AND JOE BIDEN TOOK IT ALL AWAY AND LEFT AMERICANS BEHIND TO A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!

Of course we are limited in what we could do because America’s Coward-in-Chief surrendered and ran away from the Taliban. This is the madness that we all knew would ensue. They are holding our people hostage because they know Joe Biden is a coward, along with his deputies like Blinken.