Afghanistan Scorecard True 0% 17 Checks Mostly True 0% 15 Checks Half True 0% 0 Checks Mostly False 0% 13 Checks False 0% 38 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 9 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Afghanistan Sam Brown stated on August 15, 2024 in an X post: Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen said the Biden administration did a "tremendous job" on the U.S. military’s Afghanistan withdrawal. By Seth A. Richardson • September 26, 2024 Brigitte Gabriel stated on July 2, 2024 in an Instagram post: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” July 5, 2024 Viral image stated on October 8, 2023 in a Facebook post: Video shows an “inflatable decoy plane” at the Kabul airport in 2021. October 13, 2023 Instagram posts stated on January 26, 2023 in a video: The amount the U.S. has spent in Ukraine is “double the U.S. expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan.” January 27, 2023 Tom Tiffany stated on December 8, 2022 in Twitter: “Joe Biden left Marines behind in Afghanistan. And now he left a Marine behind in Russia.” By Laura Schulte • January 6, 2023 Joe Biden stated on December 16, 2022 in a speech: Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president. December 20, 2022 Zach Nunn stated on May 9, 2022 in a campaign ad: “Zack Nunn saved over 2,000 Americans abandoned in Afghanistan by leading private rescue missions.” By Lyle Muller • May 27, 2022 Tom Tiffany stated on February 18, 2022 in Twitter: The Biden administration has been "recklessly releasing potentially dangerous Afghans into our communities." By Alan Hovorka • May 13, 2022 Derrick Van Orden stated on December 7, 2021 in Twitter: Actions by Joe Biden left "10,000 to 15,000 American citizens abandoned to terrorists in Afghanistan." By Alan Hovorka • January 4, 2022 Joe Biden stated on December 12, 2021 in an interview with Rita Braver of CBS: “I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.” By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2021 Load More Latest Articles Families of fallen US service members’ emotional moment at RNC, accusations against Joe Biden By Samantha Putterman • July 18, 2024 Americans on their own in Ukraine? Military-led evacuations like in Afghanistan are not the norm • January 31, 2022 Mailbag: ‘PolitiFact, you’re wrong’ and other reader reactions By Amy Sherman • September 7, 2021 Weapons, helicopters and K9s: Debunking misinformation about the end of the war in Afghanistan By Samantha Putterman • September 3, 2021 Joe Biden said not everyone who wants to can leave after a war. Military experts checked his history By Louis Jacobson • September 2, 2021 Crated dogs in Kabul airport photo didn’t belong to US military. What’s going on? By Samantha Putterman • September 2, 2021 What we know about today’s Taliban By Jon Greenberg • September 1, 2021 How are Afghan refugees being vetted? Here’s what we know By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • August 25, 2021 What was the Contingency and Crisis Response bureau? Examining the Trump-era proposal By Bill McCarthy • August 25, 2021 Ask PolitiFact: What are some basic facts on the U.S. war in Afghanistan? By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • August 19, 2021
