Reports: President Trump Wants U.S Forces Out Of Afghanistan Before The 2020 Election

NBC: Trump wants to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by 2020 election, officials say

The president threatened to shut down the U.S. embassy in Kabul last December, complaining to aides that it is too large and expensive, officials said.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the November 2020 presidential election, according to five current and former administration and military officials.

The president's advisers are now scrambling to meet his election-year deadline, which has exacerbated tensions between officials at the Pentagon and the State Department over the timing of withdrawal and whether it should be completed, the officials said.

"It's tense," said one former official briefed on the debate.

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Update #1: Trump Wants All Troops Out Of Afghanistan By 2020 U.S. Election: Reports (RFE)
Update #2: Trump told advisers he wants to pull US troops from Afghanistan by 2020 election: report (The Hill)

WNU Editor: President Trump has been very blunt that he wants the U.S. to get out of Afghanistan .... Donald Trump CONFIRMS he is planning massive Afghanistan pullout amid peace talks with the Taliban saying he could end war in two days but adds 'I'm not looking to kill 10 million people - some of them innocent' (Daily Mail). This is also a campaign issue that he ran on in 2016, and he wants to fulfill it.