Trump boasts of his negotiating skills, but a string of setbacks on the world stage could ding that image in the 2020 election
President Donald Trump’s boasts about his dealmaking skills may have helped him win in 2016. But after this weekend’s events, he has little to back up those claims on the world stage heading into 2020.
Several people close to Trump asserted that the president could still use the aborted Afghan talks to his advantage as he campaigns with a strategy more focused on getting supporters to vote on Election Day and less about convincing undecideds to back him. One theory is that he could argue that he won’t fall for a bad deal.
Trump’s advisers aren’t all on the same wavelength when it comes to dealing with the Taliban. National security adviser John Bolton has been highly skeptical of the talks, while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has backed the diplomatic efforts so far. The dissonance has caused friction between the two men and their aides.
A former Trump adviser who remains close to the campaign acknowledged on Sunday that inviting the Taliban to Camp David was “stupid,” saying it appeared as if it was a reward. But the former adviser also said that the president was working to resolve the conflict and bring U.S. troops home. The peace talks had been moving toward a “framework agreement” intended to lead to a broader peace process involving the U.S.-backed Afghan government. Trump’s cancellation follows nine rounds of talks over the past 10 months in Doha, Qatar, between Taliban representatives and a U.S. negotiating team led by the special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who has now been recalled to Washington.
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, overthrowing the Taliban government. The Taliban had been hosting Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida chief and mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. Ned Price, a former top Obama administration official now working with Democratic campaigns, cautioned that Trump’s cancellation of the talks could be — at least in the president’s mind — an attempt to gain leverage. He pointed out that Trump temporarily called off his first summit with North Korea’s Kim before agreeing to meet.
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