CLAIM: Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday during a House hearing claimed that the Trump administration did not leave them a plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan.
“We inherited a deadline; we did not inherit a plan,” he said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, the first time the Biden administration has had to publicly face members of Congress on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
VERDICT: False. Former Trump Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel has said on the record in an op-ed that he handed over the administration’s withdrawal plan to the Biden transition team.
“We handed our entire plan to the incoming Biden administration
during the lengthy transition. The new team simply wasn’t interested,” ....................We handed our entire plan to the incoming Biden
administration during the lengthy transition. The new team simply wasn’t
interested."
Patel also told Breitbart News
that plans for removing Americans, equipment, and machinery, as well as
for contingencies, was handed to the Biden administration, but “they
just basically threw it out the window and fast forward six, seven,
eight months.”..............To Read More....
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