Donald Trump recently claimed that during his negotiations with the Taliban as president of the United States, he threatened to “wipe out” the terror group’s co-founder if he walked out of line. In an interview with Fox News earlier this week, Trump said he had provided Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar with a satellite photo of his home as a veiled warning amid talks with the terrorist group.
“I sent him a photo of his house,” the former US president urged Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is now deputy prime minister after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.
“He said, ‘But why are you sending me a picture of my house?’ I said, ‘You have to find that out,'” Trump claimed.
“I said, ‘If you do something – we haven’t lost a soldier from then on – we’re going to hit you harder than any country has ever been hit.’ He said, ‘I understand, Your Excellency,'” he continued.
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Furthermore, during the interview, Trump also noted how he had wanted to leave Afghanistan and that he had been the one who reduced the US presence to “a few soldiers”. “We would have had a similar schedule, but I would have taken out the military last,” he insisted, adding that he also would not have allowed $85 billion worth of “the best military equipment in the world” to be left behind. “. .
Trump also said US President Joe Biden’s “terrible withdrawal” led to 13 military personnel being blown up in horrific scenes of chaos at the Kabul airport last August. “We lost 13 soldiers and we also had a large number of soldiers horribly wounded – no legs, no arms, their faces blown to smithereens,” he said.
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He even insisted that a “lot of bad people” could also flee Afghanistan in the crowd of people crammed uncontrollably into jets in the rush to flee. “A lot of bad people got on those planes. Bad people – terrorists,” Trump claimed.
Notably, during the Afghan withdrawal last year, Taliban forces were able to retake the entire country in an offensive after US forces departed from the main base in Bagram. The terrorist group arrived in Kabul and the US and their allies working there were evacuated after the defeat of the Afghan army in the chaotic scenes.