“Because of the negligence, the hasty and incompetent withdrawal led by this commander in chief, all of the $85 billion dollar’s worth of equipment has been left behind and fallen into the hands of the Taliban.”
What FactCheck.org found
$82.9 billion is the total amount spent on the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund since the war began in 2001. Only a portion of that is equipment. And experts say much of the equipment has been used up or is inoperable.
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In short
Jim Banks (U.S. representative) made this claim around 30 August 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 September 2021, 4 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
Jim Banks has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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