A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on September 1, 2021.
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The Trump era’s favorite trick was to shove the blast radius into the next president’s lap and call it strategy. On September 1, 2021, that dodge was still collapsing under the weight of the airport chaos, the Taliban takeover, and the deal that helped set the timetable. Here’s the damage as it looked that day.
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By Sept. 1, 2021, Washington was still arguing over who owned Afghanistan’s collapse. The 2020 Doha agreement tightened the options available to Biden, but the fall of Kabul also reflected Taliban advances, Afghan government failure and Biden administration decisions in 2021.