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But if Trump had withdrawn them earlier, 'it would have been a debacle,' Kellogg said.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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Both.
And Mike Lindel supplied the mattress.
This is a ridiculous lie.
August 2021
Who was pospotus at that time?
these reprobates need to be taken to the wood shed
President Trump NEVER WOULD HAVE APPROVED THE ACTION THAT TOOK PLACE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
His withdrawal would have been measured, efficient, thoughtful, and above all SANE.
Haphazard pedo joe’s mind is like the exit strategy he approved. He is disorganized, his brain is disheveled, and his attention span is that of a gnat.
DAILY MAIL; DO NOT COMPARE WHAT JOE DID TO WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD HAVE DONE!
“But if Trump had withdrawn them earlier, ‘it would have been a debacle,’ Kellogg said.”
That statement proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the people currently in charge of this country are literally insane.
The globalist coalition will go to all lengths to lie through their rotten teeth. How can any person with a thinking brain believe that pile of horse Schumer?????
Yes, they really do think you’re that stupid.
What is frightening is that there’s a chunk of the population that will believe it.
“But if Trump had withdrawn them earlier, ‘it would have been a debacle,’ Kellogg said.”
Biden’s withdrawal was a debacle that Kellogg approved of.
Should President Trump grace the J6 clown show with his presence, he should start his remarks with the opening scene of 2,000 Mules in which Biden brags about the Democrat’s best ever vote fraud scheme.
Every idiot who voted democrat.🙄
Butt butt Orange man bad./s 🙄
Because Trump lost. There was a signed agreement with the U.S. and the Taliban that had the U.S. out of Afghanistan in spring of 2021. The election ended that.
I don't know about Somalia but I'm thinking this is false.
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