Then-President Trump was so determined to end the Afghan war during his presidency that 8 days after the 2020 election, he secretly signed a memo to withdraw all troops by January 15, 2021, sidestepping his national security team, new Woodward book says
Washington Just eight days after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump was so determined to end the war in Afghanistan during his presidency that he secretly signed a memo to withdraw all troops by January 15, 2021, according to a new book,"Peril," from journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
The November 11 memo, according to the authors, had been secretly drafted by two Trump loyalists and never went through the normal process for a military directive -- the secretary of defense, national security adviser and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs had all never seen it. Unpredictable, impulsive, Trump had done an end run around his whole national security team. In a remarkable scene, the authors write, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen.
President Donald J. Trump talks with others in the Oval Office at the White House on Friday, November 13, 2020. It was"effectively a rogue memo and had no standing," Woodward and Costa write."All right," O'Brien said when he returned to his office."We've already taken care of this. It was a mistake. The memo was nullified.
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