Mike Pompeo Fires Back at Adam Kinzinger, Says He Continuously Asked for a Job in Trump Administration – Opinion

Following a tweet by Kinzinger accusing him and Pompeo of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Mike Pompeo was furious at Kinzinger (R. IL).

As RedState’s Mike Miller noted, Kinzinger tried his best to place the Afghanistan debacle on the Trump administration.

On Tuesday, Kinzinger tweeted:

“Do not let my colleagues pretend today that Trump and Pompeo didn’t set in motion the Afghanistan withdrawal. They did. Pompeo was a friend of mine. He was an Afghan hawk until Trump. This was something he knew, and he also owns it. Trump Pompeo and Biden all to blame.”

Pompeo responded to Kinzinger’s claim, tweeting:

“Adam Kinzinger repeatedly asked me for job in Trump Admin (Air Force Sec, Amb), and for wife. Attacks our Afghan Plan that had no US casualties/no Taliban Takeover/no Americans Left Behind Adam, my experience in Congress was enjoyable. What’s happened to you? YOU should know better.”

The Taliban were seen celebrating Monday one year since the U.S. troop withdrawal.

In August 2021, Kinzinger said:

“The Taliban has always said that America has the watches, but they have the time. Both President Trump, and President Biden announced that the U.S. had ended its time in Afghanistan. The U.S. let the Taliban know this, and they would be able to simply beat us. And today, we watched as the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban regained full control.”

“This is the result of a shortsighted, weak, and utter failure of both the previous White House and the current Administration. The naïve Trump Administration legitimized the Taliban by having ‘talks’ with them about peace and openly negotiating with terrorists, while the Biden Administration tried to fulfill a campaign promise without any semblance of a plan or forethought into how this would play out.”

In mid-August 2021, Pompeo spoke to Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” after Biden tried blaming Trump for the Afghanistan debacle. Pompeo stated:

“That’s just simply not true … Go read the deal. You should read all conditions. Ich was there. It was my job to make sure that it happened. All the Afghans were present in the room. For the 20th time, we were able to have all the Afghans in one room. We also had Afghan leaders. … We were working diligently to deliver on the president’s two missions: to get our young people home, to reduce the risk of the United States from having our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines there in Afghanistan, and second, to create the conditions where we could make sure that a terror attack on the United States did not happen from there. It was done in the Philippines. We also did it in Syria. Terrorism risk was reduced all over the world. We would have done it in Afghanistan as well.”

Even Democrats criticized Biden’s Afghanistan debacle. Biden, despite promising to take full responsibility when running for the presidency in 2008 for all his failings has yet to do so.

It was the Biden government that pulled out of Afghanistan, leaving 13 American troops dead. Trump and Pompeo are not included in the Biden government. Although they can spin and change their story however they wish, 13 of our heroes perished on August 26, 2021. This is something we won’t forget.

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