Posted on 10/13/2022 8:19:42 PM PDT by algore
Donald Trump ordered a complete withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Somalia after he lost the 2020 election, the January 6 committee said at their Thursday hearing.
The memo was written to the acting Secretary of Defense on November 11 to take effect on January 15, 2021 - just before President Joe Biden was meant to take office.
The revelation was made by GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who is retiring from Congress at the end of this year after facing opposition from Trump over his re-election.
Trump National Security Council Official Gen. Keith Kellogg said he warned the former president that it could be 'catastrophic' in a video played by Kinzinger.
He also played footage of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley stating of the US's then-ongoing conflicts there, 'Yeah we lost, we need to let that issue go to the next guy.'
Lawmakers say it's proof that Trump knew he lost the 2020 election.
'These are the highly consequential actions of a President who knows his term will shortly end,' Kinzinger said.
Trump's order was clearly never carried out.
Biden was widely criticized for his end-of-August 2021 Afghanistan troop withdrawal, which came amid the Taliban's lightening fast offensive to take back the country from its US-backed government.
But if Trump had withdrawn them earlier, 'it would have been a debacle,' Kellogg said.
At other points of the hearing, lawmakers showed yet more evidence that people closest to Trump in the lead-up to the January 6 attack knew that the election was settled
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This was the deep state telling the American people to go **** themselves.
I wonder where the J7 committee is getting their drugs.
Ironic that the show trials picked up on the very same day that the inflation numbers came in overheated, most of 40 years?
Look over here, not over there......
The TDS is pegged with these losers. There isn’t an iota of sense to any of their wild assertions. It’s all throwing it against the wall and hoping something sticks.
This has been the case for more than 6 years. I guarantee you that Donald accepting their subpoena and stating he looks forward to appearing was the last thing those morons expected. They expected he would refuse to show and then hoped to use that against him.
Nonsense.
But... but...
The whole premise of the Jan 6 committee is that Trump thought he hadn’t lost the election.
Read the whole article.
The arguments made by those committee members are absolutely ilogical.
Proud Boys were going to kill somebody - they didn’t.
Secret Service concerned there would be guns. There weren’t any.
Trump was mad the Supreme Court ruled against him. Ok
Trump wanted to go to the Capitol. He didn’t.
Item after item that goes nowhere.
And get Cheney’s final point -
People stopped Trump from a coup but next time it will succeed because any future president has now “learned” not to appoint anyone that will stop them.
Doesn’t even begin to make sense.
Bullcrap, when he order our forces out of Syria, they just flipped him the finger and ignored him. Then the forces started mostly trying to chest bump the Russians to protect our rebel army.
This was the deep state telling the American people to go **** themselves.
The more quotidian version of this is the Walgreens employees watching the riffraff clean out the store shelves and walk out unimpeded.
Except there wasn't some fake $950 or whatever ceiling on what each of the thieves were allowed to pocket. They were allowed to clean out the whole store.
A society that shrugs at the second thing will allow the first thing without a thought.
Who the he!! believes Kisinger?
They are blaming the defeat in these 2 shithole nations on President Trump? I think I have seen it all!
More of a case of TDS, IMHO.
Yep. Gotta shift the blame and create headlines to cover for the Biden disaster.
Yep!
Trump was responsible for the jap attack on Pearl Harbor and the raghead attack on 9/11 on the towers...
They got him cold...🤣
You know they’re running on empty when their conspiracies have a whole bunch of working parts held together with wire and duck tape.
When is the last time one of these Jan 6 a-holes told the truth about anything?
So all of those generals should be tried for treason. The military is under civilian control and if they failed to carry out the orders of the commander-in-chief then they are mutineers.
Also, if this really happened don’t you think it would have been part of Impeachment 2 , the sequel?
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