On Tuesday, Kinzinger tweeted, “Do not let my colleagues pretend today that Trump and Pompeo didn’t set in motion the Afghanistan withdrawal. They did. I knew Pompeo in the house. He was a hawk on Afghanistan until Trump. He knew better; he owns this as well. Trump Pompeo and Biden all to blame.”
Pompeo fired back, “Adam Kinzinger repeatedly asked me for a job in Trump Admin (Air Force Sec, Amb), and for a wife. Now attacks our Afghan plan that saw no U.S. fatalities/no Taliban takeover/no Americans left behind. Adam, I enjoyed our work in Congress. What’s happened to you? YOU should know better.”
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In August 2021, Kinzinger wrote, “The Taliban have always said that America has the watches, but they have the time. Under President Trump and President Biden, the U.S. announced that our time in Afghanistan is over, effectively letting the Taliban know they were right; they could simply outwait us. And today, we watched as the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban regained full control.”
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“This results from a shortsighted, weak, and utter failure of the previous White House and the current Administration. The naïve Trump Administration legitimized the Taliban by having ‘talks’ with them about peace and openly negotiating with terrorists. At the same time, the Biden Administration tried to fulfill a campaign promise without any semblance of a plan or forethought into how this would play out.”
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In mid-August 2021, as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Pompeo talked with Chris Wallace, then of Fox News, regarding President Biden accusing the Trump administration of the disastrous departure from Afghanistan.
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“President Biden released a statement yesterday in which, in effect, he blamed President Trump and your administration for the deal that you made with the Taliban back in 2020, which resulted in a promise at that time — that President Trump had stayed in office — to pull all troops out by this past May,” Wallace declared, then quoted Biden stating, “When I became president, I faced a choice: follow through on the deal or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country’s civil conflict.”
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“If the risks weren’t so serious, Chris, it would be pathetic,” Pompeo answered. “I wouldn’t have let my 10-year-old son escape this pathetic blame-shifting…. it’s worth noting, this did not happen on our watch. We reduced our forces significantly, and the Taliban didn’t advance on capitals all across Afghanistan.”
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