Afghan withdrawal crisis is blamed by the White House

President Joe Biden's administration has attributed the chaos and deadly violence that arose during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to former President Donald Trump. In a 12-page report released on Wednesday, the White House acknowledged no mistakes by the administration, although one "lesson learned" was to prioritize earlier evacuations when faced with a "degrading security situation". The report noted that Biden trusted the judgment of US military commanders on the ground to prioritize protection of their troops. An ISIS-K bombing on August 26 at the Kabul airport killed 13 US service members and 170 Afghans, and a US drone strike killed ten Afghan civilians, including seven children, after American forces mistakenly identified an aid worker as a potential ISIS-K bomber. The White House report made no mention of the fact that military leaders concealed what they knew about the errant strike for days.