We have very tough, smart, great military. We have to take care of our military, though we gave billions and billions of dollars of it to Afghanistan, to the Taliban. You know, We didn't have one soldier killed in 18 months. They were going along, killing our soldiers. And I made a phone call. And the fake news, that's a lot of fake news back there. Look, the fake news, that's a lot. (1:19:41–1:19:45)
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Asserts that no U.S. soldiers were killed in a specific 18-month period.
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