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Donald Trump: “We didn't have one soldier killed in 18 months in…”

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Published | Video Starts at 58:36

And then they did it. We would have had that. It was perfect. It was a beautiful thing. It was going to go well. And they respected me. They respected me. Remember, We didn't have one soldier killed in 18 months in Afghanistan. The Taliban, I mean, the Taliban, that's their fighter. And I spoke to Abdul, the head of the Taliban, a couple of times, but I explained to him, you can't do that. (58:36–58:43)

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Asserts that no U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan for 18 months during Trump's term.

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