Donald Trump said during a rally: “When I take office, I will ask for the resignations of every single senior official who touched the Afghanistan disaster. I want them on my desk at noon on Inauguration Day.” This is to take place if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.
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Trump would demand ‘Afghanistan disaster’ resignations, ‘back pay’ for troops fired for refusing vax on Day 1, he says at NC rally
ASHEBORO, NC — Former President Donald Trump pledged to demand mass resignations of top military officials behind the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and give “back pay” to service members fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccines should he return to the White House in January.
The Republican presidential nominee’s focused on his national security policies in his Asheboro, NC, stint – his second visit to the state in a week. He gave his remarks from which the Department of Defense and Secret Service ordered for all his outdoor events after he was nearly assassinated on July 13 in Butler, Pa.
Trump, 78, touched on issues related to Afghanistan, the war in Ukraine, Iran, “woke-ism” in the military and recruitment crisis facing the US armed services.
“It was the most humiliating event in the history of our country,” Trump said of the nation’s “catastrophic retreat” from the now Taliban-run country.
Biden, 81, has not fired anyone related to the Afghanistan withdrawal, but Trump vowed to hold the government and military officials responsible for it accountable.
“I will ask for the resignations of every single senior military official who touched the Afghanistan disaster,” he announced. “I want their resignations immediately.”
Trump said he expected to see resignation letters on his “desk in the Oval Office” on Inauguration Day.
He also criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s decision to leave behind equipment in Kabul.
“Afghanistan is now one of the largest arms merchants in the entire world,” he added, highlighting the eye-popping tally of equipment – “70,000 armored trucks” and “700,000 rifles and guns” – abandoned during the August 2021 withdrawal
“All left by the Biden-Harris administration. Who bought all that stuff in the first place?” Trump said.
“This calamity is on comrade Kamala Harris’ shoulders,” he argued. “She was the last person in the room with Biden when the two of them decided to pull out of Afghanistan.”
Event attendee Craig Garner, a 55-year-old lineman, told The Post that he thinks Trump would handle the military better than the Biden-Harris administration did.
“[The military is] very poorly equipped. I don’t think we are prepared at all,” he said. “Trump is going to do a better job with it. He says he is pro military, and our son is a marine, so we are a military family also.”
Ukraine
Trump predicted that under a Harris administration, Russia’s war against Ukraine would continue raging on.
“This war is going to escalate and escalate,” he said.
The GOP nominee also suggested he could negotiate peace in the region even before assuming office, if elected.
“I’ll get it settled as president-elect. I’ll get that war stopped. It will be done before I get into office,” Trump pledged.
Woke Military
Trump lamented that the nation’s armed forces have become too “woke” – pledging to end focus on gender identity and race in the military upon taking office.
“At the top, they are woke,” he said of the military. “We don’t want woke generals; we want generals who know how to win.”
“On Day One, I will get critical race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our US armed forces,” Trump promised. “We’re taking it out.”
“Our warriors should be focused on defeating America’s enemies, not figuring out their genders.”
Trump added, “Marxist ideologies have no place in combat.”
Under Biden, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard have of their recruitment goals.
