Trump’s Afghanistan timeline comes back to haunt him at Milley hearing
A high-profile Senate hearing put Trump’s own withdrawal order back into the record, undercutting the idea that the Afghanistan collapse was only a Biden-era failure. The testimony mattered because it tied the final phase of the exit to decisions Trump made before leaving office, and because it gave Republicans who wanted to dodge that history a harder lift. The political damage was immediate: Trump’s allies could still complain, but they could not erase the timeline.
First recorded Sep 28, 2021·Meaningfully updated Sep 28, 2021
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Trump’s Afghanistan timeline comes back to haunt him at Milley hearing
A high-profile Senate hearing put Trump’s own withdrawal order back into the record, undercutting the idea that the Afghanistan collapse was only a Biden-era failure. The testimony mattered because it tied the final phase of the exit to decisions Trump made before leaving office, and because it gave Republicans who wanted to dodge that history a harder lift. The political damage was immediate: Trump’s allies could still complain, but they could not erase the timeline.
A high-profile Senate hearing put Trump’s own withdrawal order back into the record, undercutting the idea that the Afghanistan collapse was only a Biden-era failure. The testimony mattered because it tied the final phase of the exit to decisions Trump made before leaving office, and because it gave Republicans who wanted to dodge that history a harder lift. The political damage was immediate: Trump’s allies could s…
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