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Trump Says Bidens Botched Withdrawal From Afghanistan Most Embarrassing Event in US Military History

&NewLine;<p>A defiant Donald Trump has said the Joe Biden’s deadly failure in Afghanistan is the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;most embarrassing moment in American history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The former President was pulling no punches when describing Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan on a recent episode of Glen Beck’s radio show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump told Beck that President Joe Biden’s actions during the pullout from Afghanistan were &&num;8220&semi;indefensible&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and when asked if the current administration was following his withdrawal plans&comma; Trump said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;No&period; Not even a little bit — and we had a great plan&period; It was based on many conditions&period; For instance&comma; you can’t kill American soldiers&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The former and still immensely popular President said he warned the Taliban that &&num;8220&semi;if you kill any Americans or any American soldiers&comma; we’re going to hit you harder than any country has ever been hit before&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;For approximately 18 months&comma; not one American soldier was killed&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;You have to understand I did want to get out with dignity&comma; and I wanted to take our equipment out&comma; and I didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to get soldiers killed&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He said he has spoken to &&num;8220&semi;numerous&&num;8221&semi; parents of those American soldiers who died in a bomb blast at the Kabul airport during the withdrawal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;They will only speak to me&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump said&period; &&num;8220&semi;They won’t even speak to Biden because they view what he did as having killed their child&period; What he did was just indefensible&period; He took the military out first&comma; and he left all these people&period; And we became beggars to get the people out&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump noted Apache helicopters were also left behind&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;These are really expensive weapons&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;They &lpar;the Taliban&rpar; have 28 of them&period; And they&&num;8217&semi;re brand new&period; They&&num;8217&semi;re the latest model&period; Why wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t &lpar;the Biden administration&rpar; bring pilots in to fly out the planes or helicopters&quest; It would have taken them an hour&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump noted European nations respected the U&period;S&period; greatly during his administration&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Now&comma; they don’t&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he told Beck&period; &&num;8220&semi;They’re laughing at us like we’re fools&period; And the way &lpar;Biden&rpar; got out of Afghanistan was&comma; in my opinion&comma; I think it was the most embarrassing event in the history of our country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If you get out of Afghanistan&comma; you leave with great dignity&period; You leave with your weapons&period; We could have had our soldiers saved&comma; our people out&comma; everything beautiful&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump also blasted Gen&period; Mark Milley&comma; chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Peril&comma;&&num;8221&semi; a new book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa&comma;&nbsp&semi;claims&nbsp&semi;Milley had sought to assure China&&num;8217&semi;s Gen&period; Li Zuocheng of the People&&num;8217&semi;s Liberation Army in calls that the United States was stable and not going to attack during the final months of the Trump administration&period; And&comma; if there were to be an attack&comma; he would alert his counterpart ahead of time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I learned early on &lpar;Milley&rpar; was a dope&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Trump told Beck&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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