Trump Acting Defense Secretary's Bold Claim: We Weren't Really Planning to Leave Afghanistan

[left-of-center2012]

(Bullshit alert)

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump sowed the seeds for this week’s chaotic U.S. pullback from Afghanistan by striking a deal with the Taliban to withdraw U.S. troops by May 1 of this year.

But Trump’s final acting defense secretary has now audaciously claimed that the former president never had any intention of going through with his own plan. Chris Miller said that
Trump’s deal with the Taliban was actually all a “play” to disguise Trump’s secret plan.

He said: “We weren’t just going to head for the door... We were going to jam [ousted Afghan president] Ghani hard and make him cut a deal with the Taliban. It would have been ugly. It wouldn’t have been great.
But there was no plan to leave.” (It would have been brilliant)

The plan as recounted by Miller would have seen some U.S. troops stay in Afghanistan while the Taliban was invited to lead the government. An unnamed Trump official told Defense One that Miller’s plan would have been totally unworkable, saying the idea that a Taliban-led government would allow U.S. troops to stick around was “wishful thinking.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-miller-boldly-claims-trump-never-had-any-intention-of-leaving-afghanistan?ref=home

[struggle4progress]

1. "I always blew smoke from all three sides of my a-hole!"

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Wow.

Things are starting to become more clear.

US soldiers working for the terrorists? This is bad.

[Chainfire]

3. And of course you trust everything that comes out of Trump or his underling's mouths.

I also had a great secret plan for ending the war cleanly. Biden should have called me.....

[pecosbob]

4. 'We had no plan' is more like it.

[Chainfire]

9. The Trump plan was that "that the war was going to go away, just like magic."

He would have ridden on a white horse to the adoration of the Afghan people and the world would live happily ever after.

[LizBeth]

5. Regardless of what we are seeing today, I knew all along that if Trump were in, it would be much

worse one way or another. Trump would see it to. His history tells us so.

[Dawson Leery]

8. Without question.

[Maeve]

6. How can you tell when a liar is telling the truth?

Trick question. It was all lies.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Given that everyone who loves IQ45 also just absolutely adores 'secret plans' as concept

Literally they perceive EVERYTHING as having hidden, elaborate machinations that only THEY are 'smart enough' to figure out (by reading some article or watching a YT vid on the internet, of course).

This is very obviously PR for Cult45 consumption.

Let me guess, Miller has landed in some cushy lobbying job?

[Caliman73]

10. You don't have to put (bullshit alert), Anything Trump or his people say is automatically assumed...

Bullshit.

Funny thing is that Miller thinks that this actually makes Trump and his people look good. What he is basically saying is 1. Trump planned to negotiate in bad faith, renege on a deal. 2. Trump and his people are stupid enough to think that the Taliban would accept this betrayal peacefully, or that we would be able to keep them at bay with reduced forces.

Also, Trump announced and bragged about what a great negotiation he conducted and how his plan was beautiful and Miller is basically saying it was all a lie and a ruse. So, are they lying now, or were they lying then? Well, the answer is YES. They are ALWAYS lying. They always have been lying, and the lying will never stop. We just have to stop listening, giving them any legitimacy, and portray them according to their actions.

We know that Trump was heavily influenced by Mein Kompf and the work of Goebbels regarding big lies. This is something that needs to be repeated daily prefacing any statement that Trump or anyone that remained in his circle. People left or were fired because they broke away from the lies that were the daily requirement for being in the circle. People need to understand that Trump is trying to manufacture a false image of history. He only gets away with that, with our consent.

[WHITT]

11. He Couldn't Find Afghanistan On A Map

Dumbass liar.

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Trump said he was leaving.i believe there was no plan he was leaving that for Biden

[sanatanadharma]

13. TFG acting defense secretary says...

TFG acting defense secretary says, 'neither we or our word can be trusted'.

[Champp]

14. So Republicans were lying to everyone about everything

as they always do

[gratuitous]

15. So naturally, the former guy never told anyone about his brilliant idear

After all, once he'd lost the election and would be leaving office in January, there wasn't any reason for him to tell anyone about super neat-o sekrit plan to liberate Afghanistan, punk the Taliban, and pwn the libs. You don't deserve to know what he was planning! You poopyheads didn't re-elect him, so he's going to take his ball and go home. You'll all be sorry then.

Spoiled four-year-olds look at this fuck and think, "Whoa, dial it back Donny."