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But if Trump had withdrawn them earlier, 'it would have been a debacle,' Kellogg said.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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He was fulfilling a campaign promise
How much pot are our elites vaping in DC these days? Either that, or some enemy hads found a way to drug the liquor supply inside the Beltway. They are all stark raving mad.
Exactly... if there is anything criminal it would be that people disobeyed lawful orders of the Commander in Chief. If an order is lawful you don’t have to like it but you are obligated to carry it out... or resign.
“ How long before the 1/6 committee accuses DJT of removing the tags off mattresses. SHEESH!”
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They KNOW that Trump is guilty of that. Baron was overheard telling one of his school mates that he actually WITNESSED his father do it. And his mother was complicit in that monstrous act. Melania and the President reportedly bellowed forth with evil laughter as they did that evil vandalism in the Lincoln bedroom. sarc
Trump never lost the election. Theft does not equate to losing.
The whole point of that article is to push the hearsay BS from nutjob Cassidy Hutchinson.
Left conveniently unsaid was that it was a debacle when Biden did it...and still is.
Kinzinger isn’t “retiring” from Congress.
The RATS in Ill-annoy did redistricting and they got rid of his district.
Yes, President Trump INDEED won the "election".
They can lie about it all they want. Their lies don't make it so.
I heard it was really TRUMP and not Booth that shot Lincoln!
No lie LIZARD CHENEY TOLD ME,
she also said she will be the next president!
AND I BELIEVE HER
(snicker, snicker)
No. I see this as pure projection.
The lies out of this White House make Clinton look like the
most honest man since Abe Lincoln.
So, essentially there was no change.
Except we know that it’s not true.
There’s no tale too tall for them. Lying comes as second nature.
Not even the author.
I think we all know what really happened. I wasn’t sure the panel could get anymore irrelevant . Must’ve run out of “insurrection “ porn.
I mean wouldn’t this bit of info (which of course couldn’t have just been a new revelation) been more useful as Pedo Joes approval was plummeting after he actually abandoned Afghanistan instead of the last act of a clown show no one cares about?
OMG! You mean he wanted us to pull troops out of Somalia???? Didn’t that crazy Trump know Somalia is absolutely crucial, CRUCIAL I say to American national interests. We must hold onto Somalia at all costs! There is no amount of blood and treasure we should not be willing to sacrifice in order to hold onto Somalia!
Also......didn’t US troops remain in Afghanistan for 8-9 months after Trump left office and wasn’t it Biden who controlled not only the departure but the manner in which they departed - leaving behind tens of billions of military equipment and thousands of people?
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