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The Daily Beast reports:
Wallace pointed out that a number of critics have said that Trump cutting a deal with the Taliban without the Afghan government even being involved was “hugely demoralizing” and led to the current chaos. (Notably, just weeks before the 2020 election, the Taliban endorsed Trump for president in the hopes he would “wind up U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.”)
But the veteran Fox anchor wasn’t done pressing Pompeo on his own record with the Taliban, bringing up the fact that he was the first secretary of state to ever meet with the group and actually heaped praise on them at one point. Wallace pointedly asked the former secretary: “Do you regret giving the Taliban that legitimacy? Do you regret pressing the Afghan government to release 5,000 prisoners, which they did, some of whom are now back on the battlefield fighting with the Taliban?”
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“Do you regret pressing the Afghan government to release 5,000 prisoners, which they did, some of whom are now back on the battlefield fighting with the Taliban?” Wallace asked https://t.co/Bd6hKToDMH
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 15, 2021
Chris Wallace throws Mike Pompeo’s past praise for the Taliban back in his face.
“Do you regret giving the Taliban that legitimacy? Do you regret pressing the Afghan government to release 5,000 prisoners… some of whom are now back on the battlefield fighting with the Taliban?” pic.twitter.com/cfISbYYgTD
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 15, 2021
Trump in 2012, on what would happen when the US left: “As soon as we leave it’s all going to blown up anyway…the minute we leave, everything blows up. It will go on for many years and and the sad part is as soon as it ends, you have those guys sitting back waiting.” pic.twitter.com/CwI6kRYmHW
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) August 15, 2021