{"id":2275197,"date":"2024-06-21T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-fact-checking-trumps-claim-that-the-us-left-85-billion-worth-of-equipment-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:02:40","slug":"fact-check-fact-checking-trumps-claim-that-the-us-left-85-billion-worth-of-equipment-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-fact-checking-trumps-claim-that-the-us-left-85-billion-worth-of-equipment-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Examining Trump&#8217;s Assertion of $85 Billion in Equipment Left in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Ffact-check-fact-checking-trumps-claim-that-the-us-left-85-billion-worth-of-equipment-in-afghanistan%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=2275197&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--><p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasdaq-rises-on-boost-from-growth-stocks-fed-comments-in-focus\/\" title=\"Nasdaq surges on growth stocks; attention on Fed remarks.\">community roundtable<\/a> in Detroit, Michigan on June \u200b15, former \u200cPresident Donald Trump, \u2064who is the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 election, made misleading \u2062claims about the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/veterans-advocates-slam-white-house-for-lack-of-plan-to-evacuate-afghan-interpreters\/\" title=\"Veterans\u2019 Advocates Slam White House for Lack of Plan to Evacuate Afghan Interpreters\">military withdrawal<\/a> from Afghanistan in 2021.\u200b He asserted that the U.S. \u2063left behind $85 billion worth of new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">military equipment<\/a>. However,\u2064 this figure is inaccurate; it conflates the\u2063 total $88.61 billion spent on training and equipping Afghan security\u200b forces over 20 years, not the\u2062 value of equipment \u2062abandoned during the withdrawal.\u200c Multiple sources and experts have\u200c clarified \u2062this misconception.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>During a June 15 community roundtable event in Detroit, Michigan, 2024 presumptive Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. purportedly left $85 billion worth of brand-new military equipment in Afghanistan when it withdrew from the country in 2021. Verdict: Misleading Multiple sources and experts indicate that Trump conflated the $88.61 billion the [\u2026]\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Detroit roundtable on June 15, former President Donald Trump, the likely 2024 Republican nominee, misleadingly stated that the U.S. abandoned $85 billion in new military gear in Afghanistan during the 2021 withdrawal. Experts clarify that Trump confused this with the $88.61 billion spent on Afghanistan&#8217;s security forces over 20 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275197","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\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}