{"id":50403,"date":"2021-08-15T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50403"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:06:14","slug":"trump-dishonestly-blasts-biden-in-an-ego-drenched-defense-of-his-own-afghan-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50403","title":{"rendered":"Trump Dishonestly Blasts Biden in an Ego-Drenched Defense of His Own Afghan Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Taliban completes its brutal military takeover Afghanistan, Donald Trump is predictably seeking to absolve himself of any responsibility, while casting blame on others. This time, once again, it’s President Joe Biden, who repeatedly has had to finish the hard jobs that Trump either left undone or irreparably botched. Whether it’s the COVID pandemic<\/a><\/strong> or the nation’s infrastructure<\/a><\/strong> or the economic recovery<\/a><\/strong>, Biden has been forced to clean up Trump’s failures.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Afghanistan can now be added to the list of Trump’s fumbles. But even as the Taliban is advancing on Kabul, Trump is trying to pin his mistakes on Biden. In a statement that was on posted Twitter by his spokes-shill, Liz Harrington, (whose proxy Trump tweeting is violating Twitter’s rules<\/a><\/strong> against circumventing a ban), Trump displayed his penchant for slathering himself in undeserved praise that invariably ignores reality. He wrote<\/a><\/strong> that…<\/p>\n

“Joe Biden gets it wrong every time on foreign policy, and many other issues. Everyone knew he couldn\u2019t handle the pressure. Even Obama\u2019s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, said as much. He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him\u2014a plan that protected our people and our property, and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our Embassy or providing a base for new attacks against America. The withdrawal would be guided by facts on the ground.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Setting aside Trump’s tiresome, knee-jerk insults, his claim that Biden disregarded his “plan”<\/em> presumes incorrectly that he had a plan. Trump’s entire approach to Afghanistan was evolved from a meeting in Doha, Qatar<\/a><\/strong> in 2020, where he agreed to lift all sanctions on the Taliban and release 5,000 Taliban prisoners, in exchange for a three month cease fire. Trump expressed his misplaced trust in the Taliban terrorists saying that “I really believe the Taliban wants to do something to show we’re not all wasting time.”<\/em> The Afghans were not even included in those negotiations.<\/p>\n

Trump went on to brag falsely that he “took out ISIS.”<\/em> Then he closed with another ad hominin insult, projecting on Biden his own “weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence.”<\/em> Which is interesting considering his initial praise<\/a><\/strong> for Biden’s withdrawal as “a wonderful and positive thing to do.”<\/em> Although he still criticized Biden saying that “we can and should get out earlier. Nineteen years is enough, in fact, far too much and way too long,”<\/em><\/p>\n

For his part, Biden responded<\/a><\/strong> to Trump’s baseless criticisms in his announcement of the troop drawdown, saying that…<\/p>\n

“Over our country\u2019s 20 years at war in Afghanistan, America has sent its finest young men and women, invested nearly $1 trillion dollars, trained over 300,000 Afghan soldiers and police, equipped them with state-of-the-art military equipment, and maintained their air force as part of the longest war in US history, One more year, or five more years, of US military presence would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country.” […]<\/p>\n

“When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor \u2014 which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9\/11 of 2019 \u2014 that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on U.S. Forces. Shortly before he left office, he also drew U.S. Forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right, Trump actually wanted to leave Afghanistan months sooner. He proposed rewarding the Taliban terrorists with a visit to Camp David. And he left Biden with a skeleton deployment of 2,500 troops. Trump virtually handed Afghanistan to the Taliban. That’s the same Taliban who were in charge in 2001, and were harboring Osama Bin Laden as he was plotting the 9\/11 attack.<\/p>\n

However, now Trump thinks he should get credit for his “weakness, incompetence, and total strategic incoherence”<\/em>? No thanks. The only thing Trump should get is a prison sentence for his innumerable crimes against America.<\/p>\n

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As the Taliban completes its brutal military takeover Afghanistan, Donald Trump is predictably seeking to absolve himself of any responsibility, while casting blame on others. This time, once again, it’s President Joe Biden, who repeatedly has had to finish the hard jobs that Trump either left undone or irreparably botched. Whether it’s the COVID pandemic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,8,692,16],"tags":[1437,554,377,824],"class_list":["post-50403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-terrorism","category-wankery","tag-afghanistan","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-taliban"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-biden-fear.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-d6X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50421,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50421","url_meta":{"origin":50403,"position":0},"title":"Watch Trump Bragging About His Taliban Deal That He Now Calls ‘Embarrassing’","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/16\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Expecting Donald Trump to be honest about anything is guaranteed to lead to bitter disappointment. 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