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1 verified report published on August 15, 2021.
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August 15 was a reminder that Trump’s favorite move—throw the grenade and blame the fuse—doesn’t always survive contact with the archive. Afghanistan gave him a fresh attack line, but it also resurrected his own agreement, his own withdrawal timeline, and the lingering question of whether the chaos he was exploiting was one he had helped set in motion.
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Trump seized on the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Kabul to blast Biden, but the political opening came with a nasty catch: Trump’s own 2020 agreement with the Taliban had already set the withdrawal in motion. That made his moral-superiority act look more like a short-term hit than a clean escape hatch.