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Donald Trump: “Bagram was the place to be. Big, massive airfield with…”

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Published | Video Starts at 07:39

They suffer with it. And so we understand that it should have never happened, should have never been allowed to have happened. And they were in the wrong. The wrong place. Bagram was the place to be. Big, massive airfield with hundreds of acres surrounding it. Nobody could get near it. and who would not have done that. But we had a bunch of incompetent people running our country. So we are going to talk for a little while. (07:39–07:47)

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Asserts that Bagram Airfield was a secure location with hundreds of acres surrounding it.

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