FACT CHECK: Examining Trump’s Assertion of $85 Billion in Equipment Left in Afghanistan
During a community roundtable in Detroit, Michigan on June 15, former President Donald Trump, who is the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 election, made misleading claims about the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. He asserted that the U.S. left behind $85 billion worth of new military equipment. However, this figure is inaccurate; it conflates the total $88.61 billion spent on training and equipping Afghan security forces over 20 years, not the value of equipment abandoned during the withdrawal. Multiple sources and experts have clarified this misconception.
During a June 15 community roundtable event in Detroit, Michigan, 2024 presumptive Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. purportedly left $85 billion worth of brand-new military equipment in Afghanistan when it withdrew from the country in 2021. Verdict: Misleading Multiple sources and experts indicate that Trump conflated the $88.61 billion the […]
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