President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is compiling a list of U.S. military officers involved in the Biden administration's failed withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to recent reports.
Two people familiar with the plan said According to NBC News, President Trump's transition team is discussing whether to create a “commission” to investigate the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left 13 U.S. service members dead.
According to the report, the committee will also collect information on “who was directly involved in military decision-making” and how the plans were “implemented.”
“They are taking it very seriously,” one planning official explained to the outlet.
NBC News reported:
Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including who was directly involved in military decision-making and how it was handled. This includes gathering information on whether military leaders are eligible to withdraw. The charges are as serious as treason, U.S. officials and people familiar with the plan said.
The NBC News report comes months after President Trump honored 13 fallen U.S. service members with a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Following President Trump's visit, NPR claimed that Trump campaign officials got into a “verbal and physical altercation” with cemetery officials who tried to prevent the Trump campaign from filming and taking photos in Arlington Cemetery's Section 60. Published an article on.
The families of 13 fallen U.S. service members released a statement defending Trump and criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris' statement. statement He described President Trump's cemetery visit as a “political stunt.”
Harris was harshly criticized by Gold Star families, but in early September, Harris' presidential campaign announced that Trump had said, “The Biden-Harris administration has no plan for an orderly exit, only dangerous and costly chaos.'' They released a statement condemning the incident.
Breitbart News' Christina Wong reported:
President Trump began negotiations with the Taliban and reached an agreement, but the agreement was not completed by the time he left office in January 2020. Biden decided to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in September 2021, against the advice of his military advisers. The Taliban therefore invaded Kabul in late August 2021 and overthrew the US-backed government in a sudden rout. The sudden occupation caused mass panic and chaos, with hundreds of thousands of Americans, foreign civilians, and desperate Afghans scrambling to leave.
A year after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the aftermath of the failed withdrawal, President Trump issued a statement calling the withdrawal “the most shameful, incompetent and humiliating event in American history.”
