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Trump snubbed Afghan pullout opponents: Bolton

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KABUL, says his ex-aide.

In a book, The Room Where It Happened, former national security adviser John Bolton recalled a November 2018 meeting at the White House.

At the meeting, then Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford warned: “If we withdrew, he feared a terrorist attack on the US in the near future.”

In response, the president said: “Fifty billion dollars a year.” Trump stuck to his plans to bring home American troops from Afghanistan.

Bolton, who served at . . .

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