According to a report from the Washington Post's Dave Weigle, the Republican National Committee has memory-holed a page on their website that touted Donald Trump's 'historic peace agreement" with Afghanistan.
As Kabul fell on Sunday afternoon and the fingerpointing began over who is to blame -- President Joe Biden for pulling the military out or Donald Trump for negotiating the release of Taliban soldiers who have taken part in the assault on the Afghanistan capitol -- Weigle noticed a change at the website.
"How quickly can the politics around Afghanistan change? Here's a section on the RNC's website in June; click it now and you get a 404 error.," he wrote with an accompanying screenshot of the page when it still existed.
How quickly can the politics around Afghanistan change? Here's a section on the RNC's website in June; click it now and you get a 404 error. (Rest of page was about Kosovo/Israel-Arab deals.) https://gop.com/president-trump-is-bringing-peace-to-the-middle-east-rsr/\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/HkZok9mgJW— Dave Weigel (@Dave Weigel) 1629062813
As he notes, clicking on the URL takes a curious reader to a 404 error page that features President Joe Biden and states, "4040 error -- It looks like you are as lost as Biden is."
Weigel's claim was supported by the Guardian's Hugo Lowell, who wrote, "New: Republican Party has removed a page from their website bragging about Trump's deal with the Taliban that committed Biden to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Afghanistan — and led to the fall of Kabul today."
You can see his tweet below:
\u201cPresident Trump has continued to take the lead in peace talks as he signed a historic peace agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan\u201d \u2014 h/t @daveweigel who appears to have spotted first https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20201010184542/20210815231342/https://gop.com/president-trump-is-bringing-peace-to-the-middle-east-rsr/\u00a0\u2026— Hugo Lowell (@Hugo Lowell) 1629069961
