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Aug. 20, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
04:33
Watch: President Trump Speaks Out On Biden - He GOES OFF
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There's never been anything like what's happened here.
You can go back to Jimmy Carter with the hostages.
We all thought that was a great embarrassment, and we were pulled out of that by Ronald Reagan.
This is many, many times worse, and you're dealing with thousands and thousands of Americans and others that are stranded and very dangerously really stranded in Afghanistan.
So it's something that you can't even believe that a thing like this could.
I looked at that big monster cargo plane yesterday with people grabbing the side and trying to get flown out of Afghanistan because of their fear, their incredible fear.
And they're blowing off the plane from 2000 feet up in the air.
Nobody's ever seen anything like that.
That blows the helicopters in Vietnam away.
That's not even a contest.
This has been the most humiliating period of time I've ever seen.
Yeah, we had a great deal.
We worked on it very hard.
Mike Pompeo, a brilliant guy, and many others worked on it endlessly.
Meetings with the Taliban.
Of course, you have to meet with the Taliban.
They're the ones that you're negotiating with.
I spoke on numerous occasions to the head of the Taliban.
And we had a very strong conversation.
I told him up front, I said, look, before we start, let me just tell you right now that if anything bad happens to Americans or anybody else or if you ever come over to our land, we will hit you with a force that no country has ever been hit with before.
A force so great that you won't even believe it.
And you're a village and we know where it is.
And I named it. We'll be the first one.
Mr. President, I want to interrupt.
The first bomb will be dropped right there. You said this to who?
Yeah. You said to who?
To Mullah Baradar, who is probably the top person.
Nobody really knows who the top person is, but I would say that's probably the top person.
And it seems to be that's the way it's rolling right now.
But I had a very strong conversation.
I also had a good conversation with him.
We talked for a while after that.
That was the primary point I was making.
And he understood it.
And I asked him, do you understand?
He said, yes, I do understand.
And I wanted them to get a deal done with The Afghan government.
Now, I never had a lot of confidence, frankly, in Ghani.
I said that openly and plainly.
I thought he was a total crook.
I thought he got away with murder.
He spent all his time whining and dining our senators.
I mean, the senators were In his pocket, that was one of the problems that we had, but I never liked him.
And I guess based on his escape with cash, I don't know, maybe that's a true story.
I would suspect it is.
What you have to do is look at his lifestyle, study his houses where he lives.
He got away with murder in many different ways.
But I had a very, very strong talk with the Taliban, which I consider to be much more important in this sense, because they were the problem.
And they've been there for a long time, and they're good fighters, and they fight hard.
And after I said that, we had a pretty good conversation.
Now, I have to tell you that if you remember, when they were coming to Washington to meet with me, they decided to kill an American soldier because they thought that was a good way to negotiate.
And I canceled the trip.
And we had a conditions-based agreement.
And if you remember, it said May 1st.
We want to get out because we have to get out.
I've listened to people on your show and other shows say we should stay.
They don't know. We were spending $42 billion a year.
$42 billion. Think of it.
$42 billion. I understand Russia spends $50 billion a year for their entire military.
We're spending $42 billion, not 1%.
They were saying 1%.
That's a lot of nonsense.
We're spending $42 billion a year on defending this for years and years.
We've been there really now not 20 years, but 21 and a half years.
And we get nothing out of any of these things that we do, whether it's them or many other countries I could tell you about.
I'm not going to insult anybody right now.
But to spend that kind of money and then to have people get on shows and say how inexpensive it was.
And I have to tell you also that We lost no soldiers in the last year and a half because of me and because of the understanding that we had.
We lost no... Think of that.
In Chicago and in New York and in other cities in the United States, many people die every weekend.
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