President Joe Biden\u2019s administration on Thursday laid the blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal<\/a> of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n The White House publicly released a 12-page summary of the results of the so-called \u201c hotwash<\/a> \u201d of U.S. policies around the ending of the nation\u2019s longest war, taking little responsibility for its own actions and asserting that Biden was \u201cseverely constrained\u201d by Trump\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n Afghans scramble to get on an airbridge at Kabul airport. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n It does acknowledge that the evacuation of Americans and allies from Afghanistan should have started sooner, but blames the delays on the Afghan government and military, and on U.S. military and intelligence community assessments.<\/p>\n The brief document was drafted by the National Security Council, rather than by an independent entity, with input from Biden himself. The administration said detailed reviews conducted by the State Department and the Pentagon, which the White House said would be transmitted privately to Congress on Thursday, were highly classified and would not be released publicly.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor,\u201d the White House summary states, noting that when Biden entered office, \u201cthe Taliban were in the strongest military position that they had been in since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump responded by accusing the Biden administration of playing \u201ca new disinformation game\u201d to distract from \u201ctheir grossly incompetent SURRENDER in Afghanistan.\u201d On his social media site, he said, \u201cBiden is responsible, no one else!\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Afghans-scramble-to-get-on-an-airbridge-at-Kabul-airport.jpg\")
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