Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Monday after Biden deflected blame for the ongoing chaos in Afghanistan.
Biden addressed the nation directly for the first time since leaving on vacation to Camp David last week and the fall of Kabul and the Afghan government on Sunday. The Taliban blitzed through Afghanistan, toppling multiple major cities, seizing military installations, and toppling the Afghan government and military in a matter of days.Biden gave a short address to the nation after returning to Washington, D.C., on Monday amid heavy criticism for his handling of the Afghanistan pullout. In his address, he said he stands “squarely behind my decision” to leave Afghanistan, but added that Trump’s prior agreement with the Taliban had left him with little choice.
“It’s not that we left Afghanistan. It’s the grossly incompetent way we left!” Trump said in a statement after Biden’s address.
Biden claimed that had he not followed through with a tight timeline to pull out American forces, the United States would have inevitably headed into heated conflict with the Taliban.
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