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Trump tried to delete this, but the internet remembers. (Original Post) highplainsdem Aug 2021 OP
1984 Kid Berwyn Aug 2021 #1
Is this real? Johnny2X2X Aug 2021 #2
Yes. I just edited the OP to add a tweet showing the page on TFG's website after the deletion. highplainsdem Aug 2021 #3
Newsweek article from April 18 on that Trump statement: highplainsdem Aug 2021 #5
Thank you Johnny2X2X Aug 2021 #7
His brain is so fried that he doesn't remember what he said yesterday malaise Aug 2021 #9
Neither does his brain support team ancianita Aug 2021 #20
They have littlemissmartypants Aug 2021 #26
lol so true ancianita Aug 2021 #30
You're welcome! highplainsdem Aug 2021 #23
And in that article's content is the tweet of the statement (still available) from a Newsmax loon BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #18
Kick to the top! kentuck Aug 2021 #4
Grammar much Donny? Botany Aug 2021 #6
We "kept the oil", huh Diamond_Dog Aug 2021 #8
I missed the we "kept the oil" part. Botany Aug 2021 #12
Obviously Diamond_Dog Aug 2021 #16
That jumped out at me right away PatSeg Aug 2021 #35
K&R What a dumbass! MoonRiver Aug 2021 #10
This is an important thread Johnny2X2X Aug 2021 #11
There are a few trying to lay this on Biden. gordianot Aug 2021 #13
They wasted no time in trying to delete information that contradicted their narrative. kentuck Aug 2021 #14
Yes. It needs to get on CNN ancianita Aug 2021 #31
One more time, Bloated Tick Aviation Pro Aug 2021 #15
The Trump admin must have known it would be a cluster fuck IronLionZion Aug 2021 #17
He tried to remove them all in December Johnny2X2X Aug 2021 #19
He tweeted about it IronLionZion Aug 2021 #21
TFG, so incompetent that Biden gets all the credit for ancianita Aug 2021 #22
AFTER HE LOST THE ELECTION malaise Aug 2021 #32
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Aug 2021 #33
A month ago a gloating #Traitor told a cheering crowd that he'd forced Biden into the withdrawal Arazi Aug 2021 #24
Hope this gets played everywhere Johnny2X2X Aug 2021 #25
There is faux outrage on the right now IronLionZion Aug 2021 #29
The Taliban is not going to execute interpreters Johnny2X2X Aug 2021 #39
There's a lot of wishful thinking IronLionZion Aug 2021 #40
There's lawlessness Johnny2X2X Aug 2021 #41
I wouldn't trust them rockfordfile Aug 2021 #50
21 years? IronLionZion Aug 2021 #28
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Aug 2021 #27
I wonder who wrote that statement for him Orrex Aug 2021 #34
Trump couldn't have written that DENVERPOPS Aug 2021 #52
there's the evidence right there. bdamomma Aug 2021 #36
Right wingers are saying Taliban would not have taken over under Trump Jon King Aug 2021 #37
If Trump had won the election. . . Collimator Aug 2021 #43
K&R CountAllVotes Aug 2021 #38
Wow, the media coverage of Afghan civilians dying at the airport is rough. Jon King Aug 2021 #42
A YouTube video recently uploaded by WaPo Moebym Aug 2021 #48
He's such a piece of garbage. Initech Aug 2021 #44
Trump also takes credit for ending WWII, the Moon landing, writing the Declaration of Independece, LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2021 #45
Before it gets completely memory-holed. LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #46
more repuke hypocrisy Skittles Aug 2021 #47
Twitter replies: Rhiannon12866 Aug 2021 #49
k and r Champp Aug 2021 #51

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
7. Thank you
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 08:40 AM
Aug 2021

Amazing. Trump can't help himself, he has to comment on everything without thinking things through.

BumRushDaShow

(128,907 posts)
18. And in that article's content is the tweet of the statement (still available) from a Newsmax loon
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:13 AM
Aug 2021



TEXT

Benny
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: New Statement from the Office of President Trump:
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Botany

(70,501 posts)
6. Grammar much Donny?
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 08:38 AM
Aug 2021

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)
16. Obviously
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:09 AM
Aug 2021

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)
35. That jumped out at me right away
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:36 AM
Aug 2021

What was it with him and "keeping the oil"? That's how tyrants and invaders think. Just like his buddy, Putin.

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
11. This is an important thread
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 08:51 AM
Aug 2021

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)
13. There are a few trying to lay this on Biden.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:00 AM
Aug 2021

You never know when it comes to Republicans but I do not expect this to last long.

kentuck

(111,089 posts)
14. They wasted no time in trying to delete information that contradicted their narrative.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:00 AM
Aug 2021

Every waking moment is spent on "how can we get a political advantage"?

Aviation Pro

(12,164 posts)
15. One more time, Bloated Tick
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:06 AM
Aug 2021

You're not the President anymore, fucko, and will be remembered as an asterick.

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
17. The Trump admin must have known it would be a cluster fuck
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:10 AM
Aug 2021

or they would have scheduled it last year to help their reelection efforts.

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
19. He tried to remove them all in December
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:15 AM
Aug 2021

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)
21. He tweeted about it
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:20 AM
Aug 2021

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.

Response to Johnny2X2X (Reply #19)

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
25. Hope this gets played everywhere
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:51 AM
Aug 2021

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)
29. There is faux outrage on the right now
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 09:58 AM
Aug 2021

on the left people have been wanting Afghan interpreters evacuated for months to save them from certain execution.

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
39. The Taliban is not going to execute interpreters
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 11:04 AM
Aug 2021

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)
40. There's a lot of wishful thinking
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 11:09 AM
Aug 2021

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)
41. There's lawlessness
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 11:10 AM
Aug 2021

But there was lawlessness before the Taliban started taking over again. Extremists attacked a hospital several months ago and were condemned by the Taliban.

Jon King

(1,910 posts)
37. Right wingers are saying Taliban would not have taken over under Trump
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:59 AM
Aug 2021

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)
43. If Trump had won the election. . .
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 11:26 AM
Aug 2021

[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.

Jon King

(1,910 posts)
42. Wow, the media coverage of Afghan civilians dying at the airport is rough.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 11:13 AM
Aug 2021

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)
48. A YouTube video recently uploaded by WaPo
Tue Aug 17, 2021, 01:11 AM
Aug 2021

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.

45. Trump also takes credit for ending WWII, the Moon landing, writing the Declaration of Independece,
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 02:05 PM
Aug 2021

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.

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