The failure of Trump administration officials to coordinate with the incoming Biden administration in sharing insights on the February 2020 Doha Agreement peace pact led to the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, which left 13 service members dead, billions of dollars’ worth of equipment behind, and a government sustained by U.S. blood and money overrun by the Taliban, according to a White House report released on April 6.
That’s the repeated theme in a long-awaited 12-page review of the withdrawal released on April 6 by the White House, which maintains that President Joe Biden had few good options and even fewer details regarding then-President Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban that called for the United States to withdraw from Afghanistan by May 2021—three months earlier than when the new administration pulled the plug….