Trump alone is responsible for the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He negotiated a surrender to the Taliban.
Mike_Pences_Mother on
>General H.R. McMaster told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday night that Trump, while president, sought to negotiate with the Taliban as U.S. troops began leaving Afghanistan, which undermined the Afghan government. As a result, the U.S. government forced the Afghan government to release 5,000 members of the Taliban.
Not really a bombshell since we already knew this
HarpCleaner on
Single-handedly revitalizing the Taliban movement
Msmdpa on
Everything trump touches dies.
Helmidoric_of_York on
>the U.S. government forced the Afghan government to release 5,000 members of the Taliban.
That will be an interesting factoid for Trump to have to deny.
>In the days that followed, Mr. Trump came up with an even more remarkable idea — he would not only bring the Taliban to Washington, but to Camp David, the crown jewel of the American presidency. The leaders of a rugged militant organization deemed terrorists by the United States would be hosted in the mountain getaway used for presidents, prime ministers and kings just three days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that led to the Afghan war.
stripedvitamin on
Bombshell my ass. This has been known since it happened. You can thank the MSM for burying it under a sea of culture war nonsense.
eurocomments247 on
This is not new, we already know Trump negotiated the takeover with Taleban, and that he wanted Taleban to come celebrate with him in Camp David.
LookOverall on
Of course. They are Trump’s kind of people
EdSpace2000 on
He faqed Afghans, specially young generation who had never seen Taliban before. The US could have withdrawn without giving power to Taliban.
killer-tofu87 on
We know this. Hell, he was bragging about it out loud repeatedly.
Am_Deer on
Yet his followers claim to be patriots. They are unwittingly the cause of our downfall.
HorrorBuff2769 on
I saw in one article that he said Trump bears “some” responsibility for this. Grow a fucking spine.
Acadia02 on
Harris should bring up the withdrawal in the debates and let him go off script so she can fact check him live.
DiscombobulatedWavy on
How many fucking “bombshells” are we going to get before this fucking country is just done with Trump or he faces any meaningful consequences? I’m not holding my breath.
Ok-Name8703 on
Can the Lincoln project do an ad on this? They’re particularly effective at messaging
Expensive-Mention-90 on
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Donald Trump may have made the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan worse for President Biden.
General H.R. McMaster told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday night that Trump, while president, sought to negotiate with the Taliban as U.S. troops began leaving Afghanistan, which undermined the Afghan government. As a result, the U.S. government forced the Afghan government to release 5,000 members of the Taliban.
The former national security adviser was on CNN to discuss his new book, At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. The revelation puts the chaos of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan into greater context, as conservatives sought to lay much of the blame onto Biden and successfully pushed that narrative into media coverage.
It’s the latest damaging revelation from McMaster’s book. Last week, an early excerpt from the book detailed how Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin was able to manipulate Trump by playing on his “ego and insecurities.” On Monday, another newly revealed excerpt described meetings in the Oval Office as “exercises in competitive sycophancy” where Trump made particularly “outlandish” suggestions, including one instance in which he asked, “Why don’t we just bomb the drugs?” in regards to narcotics in Mexico.
McMaster is one of many of Trump’s former national security officials to criticize the now convicted felon for his conduct as president. One of his other former national security advisers, John Bolton, said earlier this month that Trump “can’t tell the difference between what’s true and what’s false.”
COMMENT: I don’t understand what’s new about this. Am I missing something?
Basis_404_ on
So he spent yesterday standing in front the graves of the people who lost their lives in large part due to the circumstances he created he and blamed someone else for it.
So much for the “buck stops here”. The only bucks they stop with him are the dollar bills he shoves into his pocket.
JessieJ577 on
Love that these people always come out with bombshells when they have a book to publish 3-5 years after the fact
YouWereBrained on
The people who need to see this won’t. And if they do, they won’t care.
thehomienextdoor on
We haven’t made it to October yet🤦🏾♂️
padizzledonk on
How is this a “bombshell” we’ve all known this for 5+ years now
He also released 1000s of taliban foghters from prison, did nothing to FastTrack visas for our Afghan allies to get out of the country before they were killed as traitors and absolutely botched/allowed the military to botch all the forward planning necessary the year before the withdrawal was scheduled
This was all public information during his administration
astrozombie2012 on
Anyone who paid attention back then knows this. Trump is at fault for the resurgence of the Taliban and set up the incoming administration for failure. Biden maybe should have pumped the brakes, but I’m not sure how feasible that was.
Xyz14231 on
Let me speak up now… that my book is out. Bunch of complicit weasels.
boxfullofirony on
All of these Assholes went along with his treason when it was convenient, then they write books about how they didn’t agree.
There are now, 50?, 100?, ex trump team members who went and supported his lies.
Rats leaving the sinking ship….but still rats.
CAM6913 on
Considering trump wanted the teliban to come to camp David for a private meeting, camp David is a presidential retreat that even American citizens can’t visit and he invited terrorists there out of the eyes of the press and other elected officials he was definitely up to no good, but his babysitters were able to stop this from happening. Then on his way out the door he agreed to a binding agreement on the date US troops would pull out of Afghanistan but had absolutely no plans to do so, never moved a single piece of equipment or a single person out of Afghanistan. Not to mention he never honored any soldier that lost their life in Afghanistan, had the Afghanistan government release terrorist. He set Biden up for failure because the teliban would not agree to changing the date after trump jerked them around then set a date. If elected America is screwed. VOTE BLUE. These traitors writing books that swore an oath to America and the constitution could have prevented a lot of the crap trump did by exposing him and his crimes but they decided to put greed before country and the constitution
jar1967 on
A compleat withdrawal was inevitable, Trump withdrew American troops from their forward possessions making the American presence in Afghanistan untenable.
Trump was expecting a lot more than 13 dead Americans
pinetreesgreen on
The Trump administration knew in 2019 every time the USA left an area, the Taliban would win it back from the Afghan army overnight. This was going on for years before Biden took office, there were many articles written about it at the time.
This was squarely on Trump.
Rush58 on
Someone needs to make a documentary on this time period to show all the circumstances surrounding the US withdrawal.
dogoodsilence1 on
Yea remember he wanted to meet with the Taliban at Camp David. Then told the world the exit strategy a year in advance signing off on getting all troops out by Aug 2021. This allowed the Taliban to buy and bribe Afghan western allies/war lords to slowly creep into occupied area and take them over without a bullet being fired. The Taliban had Kabul served to them on a platter when they had it surrounded by the withdraw date. It was meant to cause chaos
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Trump alone is responsible for the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He negotiated a surrender to the Taliban.
>General H.R. McMaster told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday night that Trump, while president, sought to negotiate with the Taliban as U.S. troops began leaving Afghanistan, which undermined the Afghan government. As a result, the U.S. government forced the Afghan government to release 5,000 members of the Taliban.
Not really a bombshell since we already knew this
Single-handedly revitalizing the Taliban movement
Everything trump touches dies.
>the U.S. government forced the Afghan government to release 5,000 members of the Taliban.
That will be an interesting factoid for Trump to have to deny.
[The art of the deal in action](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/asia/afghanistan-trump-camp-david-taliban.html)
>In the days that followed, Mr. Trump came up with an even more remarkable idea — he would not only bring the Taliban to Washington, but to Camp David, the crown jewel of the American presidency. The leaders of a rugged militant organization deemed terrorists by the United States would be hosted in the mountain getaway used for presidents, prime ministers and kings just three days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that led to the Afghan war.
Bombshell my ass. This has been known since it happened. You can thank the MSM for burying it under a sea of culture war nonsense.
This is not new, we already know Trump negotiated the takeover with Taleban, and that he wanted Taleban to come celebrate with him in Camp David.
Of course. They are Trump’s kind of people
He faqed Afghans, specially young generation who had never seen Taliban before. The US could have withdrawn without giving power to Taliban.
We know this. Hell, he was bragging about it out loud repeatedly.
Yet his followers claim to be patriots. They are unwittingly the cause of our downfall.
I saw in one article that he said Trump bears “some” responsibility for this. Grow a fucking spine.
Harris should bring up the withdrawal in the debates and let him go off script so she can fact check him live.
How many fucking “bombshells” are we going to get before this fucking country is just done with Trump or he faces any meaningful consequences? I’m not holding my breath.
Can the Lincoln project do an ad on this? They’re particularly effective at messaging
TEXT
Donald Trump may have made the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan worse for President Biden.
General H.R. McMaster told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday night that Trump, while president, sought to negotiate with the Taliban as U.S. troops began leaving Afghanistan, which undermined the Afghan government. As a result, the U.S. government forced the Afghan government to release 5,000 members of the Taliban.
The former national security adviser was on CNN to discuss his new book, At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. The revelation puts the chaos of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan into greater context, as conservatives sought to lay much of the blame onto Biden and successfully pushed that narrative into media coverage.
It’s the latest damaging revelation from McMaster’s book. Last week, an early excerpt from the book detailed how Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin was able to manipulate Trump by playing on his “ego and insecurities.” On Monday, another newly revealed excerpt described meetings in the Oval Office as “exercises in competitive sycophancy” where Trump made particularly “outlandish” suggestions, including one instance in which he asked, “Why don’t we just bomb the drugs?” in regards to narcotics in Mexico.
McMaster is one of many of Trump’s former national security officials to criticize the now convicted felon for his conduct as president. One of his other former national security advisers, John Bolton, said earlier this month that Trump “can’t tell the difference between what’s true and what’s false.”
COMMENT: I don’t understand what’s new about this. Am I missing something?
So he spent yesterday standing in front the graves of the people who lost their lives in large part due to the circumstances he created he and blamed someone else for it.
So much for the “buck stops here”. The only bucks they stop with him are the dollar bills he shoves into his pocket.
Love that these people always come out with bombshells when they have a book to publish 3-5 years after the fact
The people who need to see this won’t. And if they do, they won’t care.
We haven’t made it to October yet🤦🏾♂️
How is this a “bombshell” we’ve all known this for 5+ years now
He also released 1000s of taliban foghters from prison, did nothing to FastTrack visas for our Afghan allies to get out of the country before they were killed as traitors and absolutely botched/allowed the military to botch all the forward planning necessary the year before the withdrawal was scheduled
This was all public information during his administration
Anyone who paid attention back then knows this. Trump is at fault for the resurgence of the Taliban and set up the incoming administration for failure. Biden maybe should have pumped the brakes, but I’m not sure how feasible that was.
Let me speak up now… that my book is out. Bunch of complicit weasels.
All of these Assholes went along with his treason when it was convenient, then they write books about how they didn’t agree.
There are now, 50?, 100?, ex trump team members who went and supported his lies.
Rats leaving the sinking ship….but still rats.
Considering trump wanted the teliban to come to camp David for a private meeting, camp David is a presidential retreat that even American citizens can’t visit and he invited terrorists there out of the eyes of the press and other elected officials he was definitely up to no good, but his babysitters were able to stop this from happening. Then on his way out the door he agreed to a binding agreement on the date US troops would pull out of Afghanistan but had absolutely no plans to do so, never moved a single piece of equipment or a single person out of Afghanistan. Not to mention he never honored any soldier that lost their life in Afghanistan, had the Afghanistan government release terrorist. He set Biden up for failure because the teliban would not agree to changing the date after trump jerked them around then set a date. If elected America is screwed. VOTE BLUE. These traitors writing books that swore an oath to America and the constitution could have prevented a lot of the crap trump did by exposing him and his crimes but they decided to put greed before country and the constitution
A compleat withdrawal was inevitable, Trump withdrew American troops from their forward possessions making the American presence in Afghanistan untenable.
Trump was expecting a lot more than 13 dead Americans
The Trump administration knew in 2019 every time the USA left an area, the Taliban would win it back from the Afghan army overnight. This was going on for years before Biden took office, there were many articles written about it at the time.
This was squarely on Trump.
Someone needs to make a documentary on this time period to show all the circumstances surrounding the US withdrawal.
Yea remember he wanted to meet with the Taliban at Camp David. Then told the world the exit strategy a year in advance signing off on getting all troops out by Aug 2021. This allowed the Taliban to buy and bribe Afghan western allies/war lords to slowly creep into occupied area and take them over without a bullet being fired. The Taliban had Kabul served to them on a platter when they had it surrounded by the withdraw date. It was meant to cause chaos