Pompeo Reveals What Trump Told Taliban About How U.S. Would Withdraw, Blasts Biden’s ‘Poor Leadership’

Mike Pompeo, the former CIA director and Secretary of State, slammed President Joe Biden in an interview on Thursday over the way that Biden’s administration has pulled out of Afghanistan. Pompeo also revealed what former President Donald Trump told the Taliban in meetings about how the U.S. would pull out of the nation.

Pompeo said that the rapidly deteriorating conditions in the country, which led to the U.S. announcing earlier in the day that it was going to deploy 3,000 back to Afghanistan, was the result of “poor planning, poor leadership and that the model of deterrence that the Trump Administration had in place as we prepared to bring the soldiers, sailors, marines, everybody who is on the ground there, home, looks like they have not been able to execute this.”