Trump’s Defense Nominee calls US Afghanistan exit ‘Painful Failure’

Trump’s Defense Secretary Nominee Calls U.S. Exit from Afghanistan ‘Disastrous’ Amid Biden’s Defense of Withdrawal.

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Defense, described the manner of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as “disastrous” just one day after President Joe Biden strongly defended his decision to end America’s involvement in the country.

Hegseth, who has firsthand experience with the Afghanistan war, stated on Tuesday January 14 that the withdrawal...