“General H.R. McMaster told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday night that Trump sought to negotiate with the Taliban as U.S. troops began leaving Afghanistan, which undermined the Afghan government. As a result… 5,000 members of the Taliban (were released.)… The revelation puts the chaos of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan into greater context, as conservatives sought to lay much of the blame onto Biden and successfully pushed that narrative into media coverage.”

https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/185318/former-trump-adviser-mcmaster-taliban-afghanistan