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Trump assails Biden for Afghanistan 'humiliation'

Published 08/21/2021, 10:54 PM
Updated 08/22/2021, 07:55 AM
© Reuters. Former U.S. President Donald Trump exits the stage after visiting an unfinished section of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas Governor Greg Abbott in Pharr, Texas, U.S. June 30, 2021.  REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare

© Reuters. Former U.S. President Donald Trump exits the stage after visiting an unfinished section of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas Governor Greg Abbott in Pharr, Texas, U.S. June 30, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare

By Lawrence Hurley and David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump launched on Saturday a sustained attack on President Joe Biden's handling of the retreat of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, which he called "the greatest foreign policy humiliation" in U.S. history.

Trump, a Republican who has dangled the possibility of running again for president in 2024, has repeatedly blamed Biden, a Democrat, for Afghanistan's fall to the Islamist militant Taliban, even though the U.S. withdrawal that triggered the collapse was negotiated by his own administration.

"Biden’s botched exit from Afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by a nation’s leader, perhaps at any time," Trump said at a boisterous rally packed with his supporters near Cullman, Alabama.

Taliban leaders are trying to hammer out a new government after their forces swept across the country as U.S.-led forces pulled out after two decades, with the Western-backed government and military crumbling.

For his part, Biden has criticized the Afghan military for refusing to fight, denounced the now-ousted Afghan government and declared he inherited a bad withdrawal agreement from Trump.

At the rally, Trump blamed the situation on Biden not having followed the plan his administration came up with and bemoaned U.S. personnel and equipment being left behind as troops withdrew.

"This is not a withdrawal. This was a total a surrender," he said.

© Reuters. Former U.S. President Donald Trump exits the stage after visiting an unfinished section of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas Governor Greg Abbott in Pharr, Texas, U.S. June 30, 2021.  REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare

Trump said the Taliban, with whom he had negotiated, respected him. He suggested the quick takeover of Afghanistan would not have happened if he was still in office.

"We could have gotten out with honor," Trump added. "We should have gotten out with honor. And instead we got out with the exact opposite of honor."

Latest comments

Biden has proved to be a weak leader who has only made concessions to every other US adversary so far. His rhetoric towards Russia ended up to be empty threats. I think the whole world sees this, including the Taliban.
Bush II invading Iraq and taking out Saddam Hussein was a much worse military blunder, arguably the worst one in US history
Many would beg to differ, Biden basically restored the breeding ground that was responsible for 911. The point of going 20 years ago was to not let it become a breeding ground again.
Its a trap set for Biden by Trump, only Biden was not smart enough to know.
Trump knew Biden was controled by a bunch of socialists, and they always ******things up…which is also why socialists and communists end up with iron fisted leaders if their systems are to survive any length of time.
LOL. Put a Trump article in and it never fails to produce a whole bunch of comments.
Trump envies Biden for bringing the troops back home. If Trump was in the same spot, we will allready be in ww3
Trump assails Biden for following Trumps own plan. Bidens biggest mistake so far, following Trump on anything is a road to disaster. His simps woulds been drooling over this failure if trump was in office.
isnt it supposed to INcorrect??? Another Trumpster displaying their IQ level for the world to see
Remember when they abandoned Bin Laden? They did it again.
We go from the Greatest President in American history to.. this. Are we sure 2020 election was on the up and up? Oh wait.. that's right.
The worst part is Afghanistan is all open for China to take over… which has been started already
you are trash sir
this is where all the high IQ ers hang out ....mark Stallone..IQ of a walnut
Tribal culture winning over educated, western looking city class for the time being Now the tribals have American weapons gifted to Afghan army. Great huh?
It was indeed a great humiliation for the US
Reuters is back on the Trump train again.   congratulations the writers.
One if far to the left. One is far to the right. Usa is in deep # when we dont have a neutral n logical pres.
Neutrality is failure, like Joe!
The deal Trump negotiated with the taliban was far different from what we got. Stop trying to blame Trump fake news.
Ben, u are right!
You don't need to "assail".  Everyone knows that this is a disaster.
This article is useless because Trump no longer has access to classified information and has no one to read the "24 brief" of events. Also, civilians trading this article are pretty unaware of military actions overseas and war strategies. this is why we should all perform at least 2yrs of military service for increased worldly insight.
Do fix it other than blame it.
Who is left to do that?
i totally agree with Trump! He is my president!
The guy is a crook, Can’t even release his tax return. I'm not saying Biden is better. Not sure how this country ended up up with these poor choices and people fighting each other to select one or the other. That's sad.
How many politicians are willing to release their tax returns? Not many
This is still a tribal culture and we never learned that lesson. Poor leadership did not help either.
They are both puppets for the central banks and corporate america
Trump is talk the talk but never walked the walked .Absolutely nothing you can do if the Afgan army with the most modern weapons just running off...
So why did’nt President Dump bring the troops home . A lot of mouth but did’ny have thd balls to do it as usual. I guess everyone forgot his promise to bring them home
The timing was not right yet and he knew it. He had a better plan.
Imagine if Biden would have sent home the people who helped/supported the USA before the troops. This is eerily similar to what happened to Osama and them at the end of Charlie Wilsons War.
Trump 2024 to fix all the ******Biden has 💩up.
Perhaps DeSantis or Haley.
I thought Reuters wasn't going to cover Trump anymore because they didn't want him to get all that free publicity. I guess they finally figured out it's the only way to get anybody to open your brain dead content
True words
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