{"id":1910870,"date":"2023-04-06T20:11:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T00:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-finally-offers-explanation-for-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-it-was-trumps-fault\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T00:16:29","slug":"biden-admin-finally-offers-explanation-for-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-it-was-trumps-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-finally-offers-explanation-for-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-it-was-trumps-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Finally Offers Explanation for Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal: It Was Trump\u2019s Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-finally-offers-explanation-for-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-it-was-trumps-fault%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910870&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p>The botched removal of American troops from Afghanistan has finally received an explanation from President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration. The president&#8217;s team released a report blaming Donald Trump for the quick overtake of the country by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman John Kirby stated that Trump&#8217;s decisions affected the withdrawal process, as well as the visa program, which was &#8220;starved&#8221; under the previous administration. Kirby mentioned that the Biden administration asked to see the withdrawal plans during the transition but received nothing from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration did acknowledge in the report that evacuations should have begun earlier. However, Kirby mentioned that &#8220;not everything&#8221; was perfect, adding they were &#8220;proud&#8221; of many elements of the botched withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation ended in August 2021, with the Biden administration leaving close to $7.2 billion worth of military equipment in the hands of the Taliban. As a result, 13 U.S. servicemembers died in an evacuation airport suicide attack. The House Republicans have begun investigating the withdrawal and Afghanistan&#8217;s fall, issuing Secretary of State Antony Blinken a subpoena in late March.<\/p>\n<p>When asked repeatedly by the press about accountability for the failed missions, Kirby stated that the report didn&#8217;t focus on &#8220;accountability&#8221; but aimed to convey information about the exit.<\/p>\n<p>The administration said it learned from the Kabul fall and used the lessons in Ethiopia and Ukraine. It now prioritizes earlier evacuations when faced with a reduced security situation.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter criticized the White House for releasing the report just before a holiday, to which Kirby responded that intelligence is a challenging business, and that they get it right many times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration released a report on the Afghanistan withdrawal Thursday that largely pointed the finger at former president Donald Trump for the botched exit that resulted in the country\u2019s rapid fall to the Taliban.\u00a0 &#8220;Decisions made and the lack of planning done by the previous administration significantly limited the options available&#8221; for withdrawal, White<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1910871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4496,7228,3620,7371,11965,8852,5321,4462,3794,8050],"class_list":["post-1910870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-admin","tag-afghanistan","tag-biden","tag-botched","tag-explanation","tag-fault","tag-finally","tag-offers","tag-trumps","tag-withdrawal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}