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Donald Trump: “We should have left from Bagram.”

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

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Donald Trump campaigning in Milwaukee

Published | Video Starts at 58:17

Most importantly, we lost 13 great soldiers. And of tremendous importance, we have many soldiers that lost their arms and their legs and we just obliterated because of stupid people. We should have left from Bagram. not that base. We had it all mapped out and we had options. We had a lot of things they had to do, everything they had to do, and they weren't doing it. (58:17–58:20)

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Asserts that the U.S. should have withdrawn from Bagram Air Base.

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