“I want them on my desk at noon on Inauguration Day,” says former president.
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he intended to hold accountable incompetent senior level officials who facilitated the botched military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Speaking behind bulletproof glass at an outdoor MAGA rally in Asheboro, North Carolina, Trump said “voters will hold Kamala and Joe accountable,” before adding he intends to rectify the “Afghanistan disaster” by cleaning house.
TRUMP: “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.”
pic.twitter.com/8AUIMNJ7FW— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 21, 2024
“I will ask for the resignations of every single senior military official who touched the Afghanistan disaster,” Trump said. “I want their resignations immediately. And I want them on the desk in the Oval Office – the Resolute Desk – I want them all at 12 o’clock, Inauguration Day, everybody involved with that disaster.
He continued: “When you have a disaster, so stupid as that, that causes such a problem. You don’t know what that’s done to the reputation of our country, the Afghanistan disaster.”
“This house cleaning will be a signal to the entire world and the American military and everybody else. They want people to be held accountable for failure and incompetence. And it’s just not acceptable that something like that could happen.”
The bungled military withdrawal, during which 13 US service members lost their lives, occurred during Biden’s first year in office, setting the tone for the chaos that would define his presidency.
Watch Trump’s full rally below:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 21, 2024
