mo4ch:>False alarm? Trump hasn’t ordered Afghan troop withdrawal, WH official says | Mo4ch News

There’s been no order from the US president to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, a White House official has said, disavowing media reports suggesting Donald Trump was willing to bring the American contingent home.Trump “has not made a determination” to scale down the US military presence in Afghanistan, and he “has not directed the Department of Defense to begin the process of withdrawing US personnel from Afghanistan,” Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC), said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg.Read more It comes amid speculation that Trump was losing patience with US involvement in the 17-year-long Afghanistan war, and that it was only a matter of time until troops were withdrawn. Last week, ABC News reported the president had grown increasingly frustrated over the Afghan stalemate.Reuters followed suit, saying that Trump told an internal meeting last Wednesday: “What are we doing there? We’ve been there all these years.” On the same day, T…