On Friday, Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden for his “horribly” managed 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan that got 13 American service members killed.
The moment came during a three-hour conversation between the former president and comedian Joe Rogan on the latter’s “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. The men were discussing the implications of U.S. foreign policy under Biden and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Trump said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin “would have never” invaded Ukraine if he was still president, and contended the “number one” reason Putin launched his offensive is because “he doesn’t respect Biden at all.”
“Not even a little bit. And who the hell would?” Trump asked.
The former president cited Biden’s disastrous pull-out from Afghanistan three years ago and said the Delaware Democrat handled the situation “horribly.” He specifically slammed Biden for pulling out American military personnel before all U.S. civilians were evacuated from the country.
“Number one, you take the soldiers out last, not first. … That was their big mistake,” Trump said. Biden “left the equipment behind, 13 soldiers dead [because of it], but he took everybody out. He took his soldiers out before — a child would know [better].”
The Republican presidential nominee also slammed former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark Milley as “stupid,” and added that the generals who helped spearhead the Afghanistan withdrawal “should have all been fired.”
Rogan noted how the Biden-Harris administration left billions of dollars worth of military equipment behind, which the Taliban has since confiscated and used
