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Trenton Straight is a reporter with PolitiFact West Virginia and a student at West Virginia University. He is also the news editor of the Daily Athenaeum.

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The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”

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