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Critics said Trump’s Afghanistan attack on Biden ignored a timeline Trump helped set: the 2020 Doha agreement, the May 1, 2021 exit target, and the withdrawal process Biden inherited. The argument sharpened as the Taliban advanced in August 2021 and Kabul fell on Aug. 15.