Donald Trump blamed for chaotic Afghanistan pull-out by Biden administration

Former President Donald Trump is being blamed for the US’s chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan by the Biden administration.

The White House in an unclassified report on the war in Afghanistan took little responsibility for its messy evacuation and instead blamed Trump.

‘President Biden’s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor,’ stated the report released by the National Security Council on Thursday.

‘The Taliban were in the strongest military position that they had been in since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half of the country’ when Biden assumed the presidency’, states the document.

Trump hit back by blaming Biden and his administration.

‘These Morons in the White House, who are systematically destroying our Country, headed up by the biggest Moron of them all, Hopeless Joe Biden, have a new disinformation game they are playing – Blame “TRUMP” for their grossly incompetent SURRENDER in Afghanistan,’ wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform.

‘I watched this disaster unfold just like everyone else. I saw them take out the Military FIRST, GIVE $85 Billion of military equipment, allow killing of our soldiers, and leave Americans behind. Biden is responsible, no one else!’

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Thursday admitted, ‘clearly we didn’t get it right’, but would not comment on if Biden regrets his moves around the pull-out.

‘The purpose of it is not accountability’, said Kirby of the report. He explained that it serves for ‘understanding’ what materialized and to learn from for future scenarios.

During the US’s evacuation from Afghanistan in August 2021, an Islamic State suicide bomb attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport killed 13 American service members and about 170 Afghan civilians. It was the deadliest day for the US military in Afghanistan dating back to 2011.

The Biden administration still stands by its decision to leave Afghanistan.

‘First and most critically, the president’s decision to end the war in Afghanistan was the right one,’ Kirby said. ‘The United States had long ago accomplished its mission to remove from the battlefield the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11.’

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