Donald Trump ordered a rapid withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in November of 2020 in order to ensure a mess for President-elect Joe Biden.
The attack on the U.S. Capitol by pro- Trump demonstrators was highlighted by the House committee as evidence that he knew he was spreading a dangerous lie.
One of the two Republicans on the congressional committee said that President Trump rushed to finish his unfinished business after losing the election. President Trump ordered large-scale U.S. troop withdrawals.
The directive was issued in November 2020. The existence of the memo was revealed by two reporters. Trump personally approved the proposal and his top national security staff thought it would be a disaster. The committee played clips from the interviews.
The vice president's national security adviser told the committee that if he ever saw something like that, he would do something physical. It would have been catastrophic to leave immediately. It wouldn't have been a good thing.
John McEntee, one of Trump's closest aides, told investigators that he drafted the order along with an aide, and that he got the president's signature on the memo. The proposal called for a rapid removal of troops from two war-torn countries before Biden was inaugurated.
Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the investigators he didn't think Trump's pitch was standard.
Milley thought it was not feasible.
The consequences for fragile governments on the front lines of the fight against al Qaeda and the Islamic State were downplayed by Donald Trump. The president knows that his term will end soon.
According to the report, Milley, Robert O'Brien, and Christopher Miller persuaded Trump to withdraw the order. Miller decided to reduce the US presence in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500.
Republicans criticized Biden after he announced a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan in April.
Lindsey Graham said that Biden should have been impeached for his policy of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.
If Trump had his way, Afghanistan would have become even more unstable and American personnel would have had less time to withdraw from the country.
The consistency was highlighted by a former Trump administration official.
She wrote that she would be curious to heardefenses on the Right of Trump's order for an even hastier withdrawal.
The article was first published on HuffPost.
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