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Editing to add a tweet showing the deletion, with the list of Trump statements on his website now skipping from the 15th of April to the 20th, after the statement on the 18th was removed:
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Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)Without the brains, of course.
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)Wow.
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)Amazing. Trump can't help himself, he has to comment on everything without thinking things through.
malaise
(268,968 posts)Fuck him
ancianita
(36,053 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,655 posts)Been on a jungle recon mission for years and haven't found it yet.
ancianita
(36,053 posts)highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,907 posts)Link to tweet
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@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: New Statement from the Office of President Trump:
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kentuck
(111,089 posts)Needs to be seen.
Botany
(70,501 posts)First, we can and should HAVE GOTTEN out earlier.
And yes this was written by Trump because, he included, his, random use of, the comma,.
BTW you are not President anymore you don't get to give out orders or time tables.
Diamond_Dog
(31,989 posts)Riiiight ....
Botany
(70,501 posts)Isn't that called stealing?
Diamond_Dog
(31,989 posts)more of his tough guy made up bullshit to appeal to his base. Those of us with more than two brain cells easily see through it.
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)What was it with him and "keeping the oil"? That's how tyrants and invaders think. Just like his buddy, Putin.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)Wish the title was different to explain exactly what's in it. This will shut up Cons quickly, needs to keep getting bumped.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)You never know when it comes to Republicans but I do not expect this to last long.
kentuck
(111,089 posts)Every waking moment is spent on "how can we get a political advantage"?
ancianita
(36,053 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,164 posts)You're not the President anymore, fucko, and will be remembered as an asterick.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)or they would have scheduled it last year to help their reelection efforts.
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)On this issue, Trump was actually right, now his reasons for being right are anyone's guess, but he made a campaign promise and he tried to keep it.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)but the military advised against the December 25th date.
My point is he should have done it before the November election if it was supposed to be a good thing.
ancianita
(36,053 posts)keeping TFG's campaign promise FOR him.
malaise
(268,968 posts)deliberately in caps
Response to Johnny2X2X (Reply #19)
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Arazi
(6,829 posts)Link to tweet
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Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)People are treating this like a crisis, it isn't, it's basically just us leaving a couple weeks earlier than planned because the Afghan government decided to surrender to the Taliban.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)on the left people have been wanting Afghan interpreters evacuated for months to save them from certain execution.
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)They're offering amnesty to just about everyone, that's why the Afghanis surrendered so easily. Will they honor their promise, not sure, but they've so far honored their promise to harm no Americans.
Doesn't mean this hasn't been awful, atrocities are happening, just that the Taliban appears to be making an effort to honor their part of the peace agreement.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)it's chaos over there with Taliban units that don't follow orders from the top and other bad actors pretending to be Taliban so they can rob people.
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)But there was lawlessness before the Taliban started taking over again. Extremists attacked a hospital several months ago and were condemned by the Taliban.
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)2021 - 2001 = alternative facts
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Orrex
(63,208 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)it is way too coherent for his pea brain................
bdamomma
(63,845 posts)nt.
Jon King
(1,910 posts)We need to know their talking points so we can counter them. They are not saying Trump did not want troops home.
They are saying that Trump and Taliban had a deal and they were scared Trump would bomb them if they broke it. Because he is so macho of course. They say since Taliban think Biden is weak, thats why they broke the deal and took over everything.
The right wingers are tying what they frame as Dem weakness on the border, high crime, and now Afghan girls being tortured. All these things together make your family and the world less secure.
Thats what they will run on in 2022 and 2024 and that is what Dems must be prepared to counter.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)[shudder]. . . I don't think he would have followed through with the withdrawal. Donny is an expert at moving the food around on his plate so that he never has to eat his peas.
And there would have been enough shit going down in this country to keep everyone distracted from one more unfulfilled promise out of Trump and Co.
CountAllVotes
(20,868 posts)Jon King
(1,910 posts)Not sure many will remember Trump started this mess. Right now the visuals and narrative for Biden is getting worse by the minute.
The press all over is saying Biden is hiding at Camp David while Afghans who helped us are dying at the airport due to stampedes and falling off moving planes.
Sorry but this is going to overwhelm the attempts to correct and say Trump is responsible.
Moebym
(989 posts)Had a title that went something like, "Biden blames Afghans and Trump, says buck stops with him".
I fear you are right.
Whatever their true motive may be, the media certainly appears to want to make this Biden's Saigon, and the longer the sensational coverage continues, the more people whose minds will be made up that he's a coward.
Initech
(100,068 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,585 posts)and inventing the light bulb.
As always, it's all about him. The only real thing we know is that TFG caused more than 600,000 Americans to die from COVID with his lies and getting in the way of those who took the threat seriously and were trying to do something about it.
Thank God for the Wayback Machine; it's a powerful tool to use as the GQP tries to rewrite history.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,176 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz