House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has requested an all-members briefing on Afghanistan from the Biden administration when lawmakers return the week of Aug. 23, according to a Pelosi aide, a tacit acknowledgement that some within Biden’s own party are raising questions about the way in which the U.S. left the country.
Trump, who struck a deal with the Taliban and set a deadline for U.S. withdrawal, took a swipe at his successor’s decision. The former president said if he were still in power, he would have ensured a “conditions-based withdrawal.”
“I personally had discussions with top Taliban leaders whereby they understood what they are doing now would not have been acceptable,” he said in a statement Thursday. “It would have been a much different and much more successful withdrawal, and the Taliban understood that better than anyone.”
That criticism has been hard to square given that Biden actually delayed the original deadline set by Trump, which was to pull all troops by May 1.
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