Trump boast at 6/26 Ohio rally: I started the process of removing the troops, they couldn't stop it

[highplainsdem]

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More video from his speech here, including bragging about abandoning the Kurds:

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Editing to add Joe Walsh's tweet about this:

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[Johnny2X2X]

1. Yup

We had a deal we had to honor, and the deal was with the Taliban, not the Afghani government.

[bdamomma]

2. this is all on

the previous (trump) regime.

[Arazi]

3. Bush/Cheney share a lion's portion of the blame

[bdamomma]

4. of course

them too. The Bush administration was on this from the beginning we had no business there or Iraq.

[malaise]

5. Are they showing this ont he networks or cable?

I am not watching

[highplainsdem]

6. Not that I've seen.

[Jon King]

7. But this does not matter now, the narrative is on Biden.

All of what everyone is saying is true, Trump and Bush fault, unwinnable, everything.

But right now the videos are of Afghan civilians falling off the sides of planes at the airport, of US soldiers with guns on civilians at the airport, of utter chaos....while Biden is "hiding" at Camp David according to the media.

Unfair but that is reality. Repugs are tying together the border problems, high crime, and this into one tidy package of Dems can not secure you and your family and the world.

Can we flip the narrative back on Trump? We shall see. But with each passing hour, Biden is being given ownership of this, it is what it is.

[iemanja]

13. No, and it not's just narrative

Biden executed the withdraw. It is therefore his responsibility. Clinging to things Trump said is pointless.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. There are photos of Trump with the Taliban leader making their peace deal

Doesn't look too peaceful now

[maxsolomon]

10. There are? I thought that was negotiated in Doha.

Trump signed off, probably without giving a fuck what the deal said, but I didn't think he met a Taliban leader.

Do you have a link?

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Wouldn't you know it, you can't believe the headlines or the photo hacks

Looks like he called the whole thing off. But he did talk with one of them by phone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/world/asia/trump-taliban-afghanistan.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/trump-taliban-phone-call-119660

[Renew Deal]

9. This is why they negotiated with the Taliban and not the Afghani government.

They legitimized the Taliban and delegitimized the gov't.

[maxsolomon]

11. It's not "highly entertaining", Joe Walsh.

It's infuriating.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Is there a medical term for this? self-congratulatory delusional reinstatement? /nt

[Champp]

15. k and r

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. For this thread

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