Antony Blinken’s absence from a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Tuesday on the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is not unusual for the secretary of state, Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., told Newsmax on Tuesday.

Blinken defied a subpoena by the committee, on which Mast serves, to testify; and the committee voted 26-25 along party lines Tuesday on a resolution that recommends the full House vote hold Blinken in contempt of Congress. On Sept. 9, the committee released a report on the withdrawal, titled “Willful Blindness: An Assessment of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Chaos that Followed.”

“This is the MO for Secretary of State Blinken,” Mast told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “We’re talking about the Afghanistan withdrawal, and the reality is — and this is something I have spoken about in length — just like he wasn’t present today, he was not present during the Afghanistan withdrawal.

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