Trump’s ex-national security advisor John Bolton says it’s ‘impossible’ for Mike Pompeo to ‘rewrite history’ on his negotiations with Taliban – By Oma Seddiq (Business Insider) / Aug 26 2021
- Trump’s ex-national security advisor John Bolton slammed Mike Pompeo over his negotiations with the Taliban.
- Bolton said it’s “impossible” to “rewrite history” about the Trump administration’s role in the Afghanistan pullout.
- Pompeo and Trump have come under attack over their deal with the Taliban in February 2020.
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Donald Trump’s ex-national security advisor John Bolton criticized former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for distancing himself from the Afghanistan withdrawal when he negotiated the deal with the Taliban.
“Trying to extricate yourself from this withdrawal is I think difficult if not impossible to do, especially to rewrite history about what actually happened,” Bolton told Politico in a report published Thursday. “I think that’s a prescription for Democratic attack ads that would be fatal to someone’s credibility.”
Pompeo and Trump have come under attack over their February 2020 agreement with the Taliban, which stipulated that US troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan within 14 months on the condition that the militant group not turn the country into a terrorist base. At the signing ceremony in Qatar, Pompeo posed for photographs alongside Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is anticipated to head the next Taliban government in Afghanistan.
