'Utter nonsense': Retired general slams Trump 'hypocrisy' with latest plan

A Donald Trump plan to court-martial top military brass for their part in the withdrawal from Afghanistan was slammed as 'utter nonsense" by a retired general Monday.

The Trump transition team is reportedly crafting a list of current and former military brass involved with the withdrawal, with the proposal that they be charged with treason, NBC News reported over the weekend.

The plan claims that retired military officials would be recalled and forced back into active duty, where they would be court-martialed.

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Trump has also previously suggested he wanted to court martial generals who wrote critical op-eds against him.

According to retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, it's never going to happen — and even if it did, he said it would make Trump look terrible for his own mistakes.

"This is utter nonsense," he said on MSNBC.

"What is not utter nonsense is this is a political attack of utmost hypocrisy. Trump ran for office saying get out of Afghanistan. He reduced the troop presence to 2,500. He negotiated directly with the Taliban."

When Biden came into office, McCaffrey said that only 2,500 troops on the ground made things difficult when they were forced to give up the U.S. Air Force base.

"The evacuation, from a tactical military viewpoint, was a brilliant success," he continued.

"... We got out of there with 100,000 Afghan civilians fleeing with us. It is just the world turned upside down.

"I think it is going nowhere, but it is a disaster signal to the armed forces. They are also talking about review boards, vetting the three and four-star officers [in the] Army, Navy, and Air Force. Firing the chairman of [Joint Chiefs of Staff]. This is a terrible beginning to a new administration."

That said, he believes "it will go nowhere" because "there is no precedent."

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction published an independent report in 2022 where it blamed both Trump and President Joe Biden's administration for the chaotic withdrawal.

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