Blue-checked dramatist just wants to 'be clear' about Donald Trump's master plan to use Afghanistan to take down Joe Biden

Joe Biden has already made sure to place responsibility Donald Trump for his own disastrous Afghanistan policy.

Watching Biden officials and their partisans (neocons + liberals) try to claim this withdrawal was Trump's plan is shamelessly deceitful.

Trump did want to leave Afghanistan. But Biden spent the year boasting that it was his choice and plan. Kamala leaked that she was key to it. pic.twitter.com/rngZEvrgGO

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 16, 2021

So it should come as no surprise that Joe Biden’s defenders would resort to the same sort of finger-pointing.

Just as a matter of crass politics, the best thing going for Biden is that Trump was the one who made the withdrawal deal with the Taliban while cutting out the Afghan government — and in fact wanted to pull out even more precipitously and invite the Taliban to Camp David.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 16, 2021

Just as a matter of crass politics, Biden has spent six months crowing about all the bad Trump policies he has reversed. To whine now that he really had no choice is so weak and feckless it is beyond words. https://t.co/0BYwhhJ3Cd

— Janet Mullins Grissom (@JMullinsGrissom) August 16, 2021

And speaking of crass politics, how about this take from blue-checked British dramatist and author Peter Jukes? It’s really something:

Let’s be clear. Biden fell into a trap set by Trump, who — whenever he meets them — promotes male supremacist authoritarians. No doubt there was some kind of payoff too. But it’s the Afghan people — and particularly Afghan women — who will pay the heaviest price https://t.co/JeXzWCymP4

— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) August 15, 2021

Blue-checked dramatist just wants to 'be clear' about Donald Trump's master plan to use Afghanistan to take down Joe Biden

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