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New #FactChecker --> No, the Taliban did not seize $83 billion of U.S. weapons

Analysis | No, the Taliban did not seize $85 billion of U.S. weapons

Former president Donald Trump and right-leaning social media accounts keep wrongly claiming that the Taliban seized more than $80 billion in U.S. military equipment.

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Yes yes, 65 not 83. But Glenn I really need to know. Did Tim Scott and his family ever experience “real” racism?!?

12:31 PM · Aug 31, 2021Twitter for iPhone

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John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

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Oh, well if it's only 65 bn, then no biggie I guess

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The follow-up article to this will be White Supremacy led to the overestimate and that anti-racist accounting would have caught this am i doing this right

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