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Donald Trump: “We left all that, you know, billions of dollars of equipment…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 08:47

We felt like a stupid country. We were. We were scorned. We were mocked. We were taken advantage of in trade and every other way. I mean, look at what happened with Afghanistan. We left all that, you know, billions of dollars of equipment behind [in Afghanistan]. could have taken was just unbelievable. There's no reason to do that, just all of a sudden and leave it. No, we were. We were a country with the highest inflation in history. (08:47–08:53)

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