Former US President Donald Trump revealed that he threatened Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, sent him a picture of his house and told him that he would be severely beaten if he launched any attacks against the United States or its interests. He said in an interview with "Fox News": There have been no attacks from the Taliban after this threat. Trump described the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as the most embarrassing for the United States, as they left everything behind. They even abandoned – as he said – a number of dogs, most of them "German Shepherds".
Trump, who faces 34 criminal charges in New York, added: "They left the dogs – you know dog lovers, and there are a lot of them. I love dogs, you love dogs, but they left the dogs."
The former US president was responding to a report issued by President Joe Biden's administration that blamed him for the chaotic US withdrawal in August 2021 from Afghanistan, for failing to plan for the withdrawal agreed upon with the Taliban.
Trump said in a statement that President Joe Biden is solely responsible for the failure of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and that the new report issued by the White House blaming the Trump administration for the withdrawal is misleading.
He criticized the Biden administration for withdrawing the army from Afghanistan first before the air evacuation, leaving $85 billion in military equipment in the country, and losing more than two dozen American soldiers in an airport attack.
In a summary of the report, which was declassified and handed over to Congress, the White House stresses that President Joe Biden's administration has done all it can.
The administration blamed a previously concluded agreement between the administration of former President Donald Trump and the Taliban for putting the Biden government in a difficult position, and said that none of the US intelligence agencies expected the rapid collapse of the Afghan government forces.
Okaz (Washington) @okaz_online