Former President Donald Trump on Monday issued a statement criticizing the Biden administration's Afghanistan exit strategy.
While Trump has been a staunch supporter of withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan (he had set an even earlier deadline), he claimed in his statement that Afghan civilians and American equipment "would have been removed" from Afghanistan before the departure was complete.
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