During a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump thundered against Vice President Kamala Harris over her role in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan the Biden-Harris Administration effected in 2021. The impetus for Trump’s remarks on the matter was the Taliban parading around billions of dollars worth of captured equipment.
As background, when the Biden-Harris Administration ordered the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, immense amounts of military equipment were left behind. That included vehicles, night vision goggles, and weaponry, amongst other items. The Taliban paraded around much of the equipment to celebrate the three-year anniversary of their victory.
Trump, commenting on the matter, said, during his campaign rally, “Two days ago, I watched a parade of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Did you see the Taliban where they were showing all of our equipment that they took from America? $85 billion worth, two days ago, celebrating three years of the defeat of America by these guys.”
Continuing, he noted that his administration had succeeded in keeping American troops alive, but then the country fell to chaos after he was out of office and replaced by the Biden-Harris Administration. He said, “For 18 months, we didn’t have one American soldier killed in Afghanistan. And then I left and this bunch of incompetent people took over, and it all started up again.”
Trump added that the disastrous withdrawal was the “most embarrassing day in the history of our country.” He went on to note that Harris bragged about being “the last person in the room” when the administration decided to withdraw from the country, and thus that she was at least partially responsible for what happened.
He said, commenting on Harris’s role in the disaster, “In other words, she had the final vote, and she bragged about it. It’s been the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan. It should have never, ever happened. We should have gotten out with dignity and strength. And you don’t take your military out first, you take your military out last.”
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The “last person in the room” comment came from an interview Harris did with CNN. Shortly after the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan had been made, Vice President Harris was asked by CNN whether she was “the last person in the room” with President Biden to express a view on what to do before he decided.
Harris told her interviewer, “Yes,” meaning that she was the last person in the room, The CNN reporter then asked her, “And you feel comfortable?” Harris said, “I do.” It was that conversation to which Trump was referring when sounding off on her role in the disaster and the equipment the Taliban was parading around.
Attacking Kamala in a different way on Truth Social, Trump said, “The Radical Left protesters in Chicago are going after the Democrat Party because the know they are weak and ready to break into a full blown party of Socialism or, if they really do their job, and with a little bit of luck, the Communist Party of the United States of America. They are already very close and, having a Marxist trained and believing President whose father is a Marxist professor, Comrade Kamala Harris, stranger things have happened! November 5th, 2024, will be the most important day in the history of our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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