“Donald Trump in 2020 "said he trusted the Taliban and then set in motion an even earlier exit" from Afghanistan.”
What PolitiFact found
Trump signed a deal with the Taliban that, subject to conditions, would have ended in the full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by May 2021. We found no statements in which Trump said he trusted the Taliban.
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In short
Occupy Democrats (Activists) made this claim around 16 August 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 August 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Occupy Democrats has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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