Ex-Official: Trump Knew Afghan Army Would Surrender, Made Deal Anyway

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/08/john-ratcliffe-taliban-trump


8/19/21 3:58pm
Ex-Official: Trump Knew Afghan Army Would Surrender, Made Deal Anyway
Former Natl. Sec. Dir. John Ratcliffe said that Trump knew that the Afghan military would fall to the Taliban within 48 hours but negotiated a deal to pull U.S. troops out of the country anyway.
By David


Former National Security Director John Ratcliffe on Thursday revealed that former President Donald Trump knew that the Afghan military would fall to the Taliban within 48 hours but negotiated a deal to pull U.S. troops out of the country anyway.

Ratcliffe made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News.

"We had that intelligence when I was DNI," he explained. "All of the discussions including with some of the same military leaders that are still there was if we don't follow these conditions and the Afghan forces are left on their own, how long will this last and the consensus with everyone in the room was not very long."

"And I remember President Trump saying, 'I don't think they'll last two days,'" he added. "And that's why those conditions that [Fox News host Bill Hemmer] mentioned are so important."

Under the original conditions that the Trump administration negotiated with the Taliban, U.S. forces would have withdrawn from Afghanistan in May. President Joe Biden extended that exit until August.

[Champp]

1. And now he and Republican cronies are lying, lying, lying about it

Typical Republicans. No ethics, no morals, no true loyalty to American democracy.

[Deminpenn]

2. This was an interesting admission

Would be interesting to know if this information was shared during the transition.

[Atticus]

3. WHAT "transition"? nt

[Walleye]

4. ☝️

[Lonestarblue]

8. There was none, and the Trump nuts most likely spent all their time shredding documents.

I would have expected some better assessments from Biden’s team after they had a chance to talk to people on the ground in Afghanistan and in US intelligence. But after hearing a few interviews of H.R. McMaster, my confidence in military judgment has been reduced significantly.

[wnylib]

17. My confidence in the judgment of

certain types of military leaders was reduced the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Deminpenn]

14. It was somewhat abbreviated, but there was one

In fact, in the chapter on the insurrection in the Rucker/Leoning book, they recount that Milley was pulled out of a meeting with a Biden transition official.

[CottonBear]

5. The Biden transition team was denied access to national security intelligence by MF45. nt

[Rebl2]

9. Hell No

Even if there had been a transition it would not have been shared.

[IronLionZion]

11. The generals probably knew

but didn't want to admit it after 20 years.

[DallasNE]

13. Not So Sure

All of the TV's were tuned to fox News and that would have warped and corrupted their minds. Then Condi Rice the other day said that 20 years is not long enough to root out corruption. Theirs's or ours?

[localroger]

12. Biden probably knew it was a possibility

...for the same reason TFG did. It's kind of obvious when you look at the whole situation with clear eyes, and Biden wanted to get us out when he was Obama's VP. It's a nasty situation but there comes a time when you have to stop throwing good money after bad. The only realistic alternative is to declare the whole place a US territory and plan on being there forever.

[Champp]

6. Get thee hither to The Greatest Page

Every media wanker jabbering along about "Biden clucks up in Afghanistan" should have this fact tatooed on their frigging medulla oblongatas, or whatever.

[Wounded Bear]

7. K & R...nt

[dlk]

10. I wonder what parts of this deal aren't public

When it comes to TFG, it’s usually dirty and corrupt.

[Mersky]

15. Did he share this 'insight' with the incoming administration?

How can it be his claims are in such stark contrast to Joint Chiefs Milley’s from a few days ago? He spoke of how estimated weeks to total collapse turned into days.

SIV processing slowed dramatically under Trump - he never intended to get allies out. Is my suspicion that one way or another, he was always going to totally abandon them as just more ‘suckers and losers.’

Was this situation always teed-up as an eventual talking point? What was the real deal they didn’t share?

Lots of questions remain as our troops are getting as many out as possible. Every report of more citizens, allies, and vulnerable people evacuated out of there is a success under the circumstances President Biden was handed.

[bahboo]

16. glad this was on Fox....now...

did anyone actually listen...

[The Unmitigated Gall]

18. I'd expect no more...

From the entitled slob who visited Arlington and called our war dead “suckers”.