Trump marketing campaign says White Home is 'gaslighting' on Afghanistan exit evaluate

Former President Donald Trump responded to the White Home’s report on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, accusing President Joe Biden of making an attempt to “gaslight the American individuals.”

The White Home launched its findings in a 12-page report on Thursday, detailing the Biden administration’s decision-making behind the chaotic withdrawal that noticed greater than 12,000 individuals airlifted in another country because the Taliban shortly seized management of the federal government. The report positioned a lot of the blame on the Trump administration, arguing the previous president had severely restricted Biden’s choices.

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“Biden and his administration try to gaslight the American individuals for his or her disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan that straight led to American deaths and emboldened the terrorists,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung mentioned to the Every day Caller.

Cheung additionally mentioned that "Biden’s full erosion of American deterrence could be [blamed] for Putin’s determination to invade Ukraine, Kim’s determination to restart missile launches, and Xi’s pending determination to invade Taiwan and Chinese language spy balloons surveilling America. And people are solely the nation-state threats we’re conscious of. The world has change into a extra harmful place below Joe Biden."

The extremely anticipated report outlined the Biden administration’s timeline on the Afghanistan withdrawal, laying out the argument on how a collection of choices by Trump had difficult his efforts to finish the decadeslong warfare. The report cited greater than 10,000 troops current in Afghanistan on the time Trump took workplace in 2017 earlier than greater than 3,000 extra troops had been deployed simply 18 months later.

Trump then “ordered direct talks with the Taliban” with out consulting U.S. allies or the Afghan authorities, based on the report. The previous president then additional “emboldened” the Taliban by contemplating giving the Taliban leaders an invitation to Camp David on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2019.

Trump then negotiated a cope with the Taliban, generally known as the Doha settlement, to withdraw all U.S. troops by Could 2021. Nevertheless, the White Home argued that the Trump administration didn't present "plans for methods to conduct the ultimate withdrawal or to evacuate Individuals and Afghan allies."

"Certainly, there have been no such plans in place when President Biden got here into workplace, even with the agreed upon full withdrawal simply over three months away," the abstract learn.

The report comes greater than a 12 months after america accomplished a full withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan in September 2021. The operation has been closely scrutinized, significantly after a suicide assault exterior the airport within the capital metropolis of Kabul, Afghanistan, left 13 Individuals and about 170 Afghans useless.