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Trump rips McConnell over debt ceiling extension: 'He made a big mistake'

2021-10-07 | 🔗
Former president joins 'Hannity' to discuss Biden's spending agenda, Afghanistan withdrawal and border crisis
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
The old boss is waiting so ill have to say goodbye. It will follow your race very closely. Joining us live on the phone for exclusive interview, the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trey Trump. If you urge United States senators not to do what they promised, what they wouldnt do, b, they threw a lifeline to chuck Schumer by the way, Chuck Schumer Elizabeth Warren, yup, theyre, mocking Mitch Mcconnell and making fun of the Republicans and laughing at them. He threw him a lifeline that they didnt have to throw. The republican Senate needs to do leadership and ive been saying it for a long time, Mitch isnt the guy, not the Mitch isnt the guy, not the right guy, not doing the job. He gave us so much time to figure out what to do because they were in a big bun was enabled to do anything. He had the weapon and he was an able to use it
its a shame, its a shame. These eleven people come out. I know them. Some are wonderful and some I dont agree with too often im not surprised to see some of the names, but I will tell you this thats, not a good thing that happened today. He made a big mistake. Let me start theres a lot going on in the country when you start with abandoning Americans in Afghanistan. I want to get into these issues in detail. You look the crisis at the border. You look at Joe Biden gave up energy independence that you achieved for the first time in seventy five years now, hes begging, OPEC, you look at inflation and the cost of energy. You look at America standing in the world. You look at the issue in China. The first thing I think needs to be discussed is what day fifty four Americans behind enemy lines
its been almost forty days since Joe has even mentioned them. We have thousands of green card holders unknown hundreds of Americans and their families abandon. He said he wouldnt do it thirteen days before he abandon him of we have military equipment and billions of dollars that we leave in the hands of terrorists. I never thought, Mr President, in my lifetime that I would ever see that happen. Is there anything that we can do now? Look we have to get the country back. What happened in Afghanistan? My opinion is the single most embarrassing thing to happen to our country may be in its history. The warriors that will were kill spoke to the parents of many of them. They were devastated. Why didnt? They were devastated. Why didnt take awe take out the military b?
Eighty five dollars billion of the best military equipment? I bought it and rebuild the entire military. Eighty five dollars billion of the best equipment military equipment in the world buried him. They are taking it apart him. They are taking it apart, Russia, China, they got some and theyre taking it apart. They are going to examine it and build it themselves. They can never do what weekend with the black hawk helicopters. It looked like a total surrender, the most embarrassing moments. Then you look across the border and you see the pictures at the border of hundreds of thousands of people every couple weeks into the country. We have no idea who they are and going back to Afghanistan, and you take a look at the people that came out of Afghanistan. Only three percent of them qualified to come out. They rushed the airplanes and they are plenty tough and smart.
A lot of energy. Those are the people who got onto the plains: three percent, three percent of the people qualified and its incredible. What that did to our country. We are being left out all over the world. We are not respected anymore. We had a thing going. You look at Taiwan that was not happening during the Trump Administration with Taiwan they understood you cant do that whats going on is a terrible thing for our country. I dont think weve ever been this disrespected. You know last time on this program. I think we need to put emphasis back on this, that your conversation with the leader of the Taliban, before you discussed any deal or withdrawal discussed any deal or withdrawal was number one based on your stated threat that you would obliterate them. You remember exactly what you said, because I have a source that says you were brutal to them
and that you said you would destroy them, destroy their province and it would be everybody in the area would be dead. Did you say that what I said and had a very strong conversation? I said I hate to turn the conversation this way, but thats the way it is. I said we would do serious, serious harm to them if they killed any of our soldiers or any american citizens went on from there and then we got back into a more normalized conversation. Well from that conversation on eighteen months, I believe, is the amount of time we didnt lose one soldier, one soldier shot at no American was killed, the understood exactly, and they also understood they had conditions. They didnt fulfill the conditions, so we hit them hard and we stayed longer. We were getting ready to move.
I want every bolt nail screw. You know those buildings, those beautiful canvas buildings that we build as hangers. I want the buildings taken out. I want the canvas I want the arrow plains. I want the tanks. I want every single piece of equipment we have. Then we are going to bomb five airfields and were going to take blogger because its right next to China right next to the nuclear right next to the nuclear facility. It be great to keep it because ten dollars million to build it that we left they left the lights on the dogs. They are, they didnt destroy the equipment they didnt take the equipment. They said they destroyed some because they were so embarrassed. They left without it. Eighty five dollars million worth of equipment. The entire budget military budget of Russia for a year is fifty dollars billion. We left eighty five dollars billion worth of equipment in the hands of the Taliban.
You would obliterate them if they didnt follow. Every dog did and crossed to. Okay, there was going to be a. There was going to be a condition: spaced withdrawal. Only if conditions were suitable, you would keep a gratuity the air base which we for and billed billed can you explain to me when Joe Biden had the months of March April May June July, all control of Kabul to end airport. The Taliban was south of Kabul. Why didnt he evacuate if it wasnt too obliterate them and push them back. Why didnt? He move everybody out when he had full control of Kabul and the airport, the perimeter. What would he wait until the Taliban took over Kabul? Nobody understands it in the media stock, covering it not only fake news, but old news theyre trying to get rid of it.
I read a article two days ago, where theyre shelling the machine guns the most sophisticated weapons in the world. They are selling these machine guns and guns on the black market. Other countries are buying them, they are selling them. You dont need that many six hundred or seven hundred thousand guns they have night goggles that are better than anything. We have the latest model brand new out of the box, never used before the latest model, all stuff that you know very good fighters, but they never liked the Taliban fighting at night. Now they can fight at night and they can do what they want to do. They have the best they have the Apache helicopters, they have the best equipment in the world, buried eighty five billion dollars. That was in the deal they understood. I spoke to Abdul and they understand we are leaving and taking our equipment taking our
american citizens. If they wanted to stay, they had the right to stay, but they do not want to stay. We were taking them in the last out would have everything gone. The last out would have been the military. The big mistake to take our military out first, and I can just see these people saying Abdul hes, the leader. Now, if you look, he is the leader. Still, I can see them saying a duel. The american military has left and him saying there is no way youve got to be crazing, they go no. No. They left going in and going to Kabul and theyll find out that they left these guys couldnt believe they left. If thats, what happened? Let me move to the border. Mr President, when you first ran, it became a big issue. If you implemented whats known as the stay in Mexico policy, thats been abolished, you build five hundred miles of new wall. We had the lowest rate of
illegal immigrants and nearly forty years you eliminated the catch and release program. The wall. Building a stop to come stay in Mexicos program has ended its not catcher, release its process and release. We request that you show up in court. You dont have to. We are not mandating. I doubt people will honor the request. We are on the path to have a record number of illegal immigrants, probably a 30 year, high, closing in on two million illegal immigrants in the country, no vaccine mandates for american citizens, no covid checks, a high rate of covid positivity, no security, background checks of people, radical associations, its all enfolding, to before our eyes. If you saw the cages you had it under complete control. Now we see the Democrats trying
to slip an amnesty in this reconciliation bill. You know at this point, ive got to believe that this is done on purpose. They are not enforcing the law. If you didnt enforce the law, theyd want to impeach, you seems like theyre, aiding and abetting and lawbreaking. What are your thoughts on the border? Youre right about that, and I will say, the border we had was the strongest. Probably ever all they have to do is leave it alone. You know they sued us the Democrats in Congress for two and a half years. We won all the suits, but two and a half years we were able to start. It would have been finished in a period of weeks. Now we are paying six dollars million a week for contractors not to build the wall. The wall was almost complete and its one of the things that led to this great record. To one thing you didnt say, is drugs. Drugs were at the lowest point drugs coming in in particular fund at all, which is a brutal drug.
It was stopped. It was at a level we had not seen in a long time a low level now its coming in at levels that we have never seen three four five times more than we ever had coming in pouring into our country, theres, something wrong. You wouldnt believe you could even say this, but somebody doesnt love our country when they allow this to happen to our country. We have hundreds of thousands of people pouring in every two weeks, hundreds of thousands coming from countries we dont even know from where they are coming. If you know they are emptying out many countries, I used to say three Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, you could add El Salvador, but I say three or four countries come out here, its fifty countries. They are emptying out their prisons into the United States. They are jails. Some of the toughest people on earth are being dumped into the United States because they dont want them.
They dont want to take care of them for the next forty years. These people that are the roughest prisoners anywhere, are being dumped into the United States for us to take care of them. What are they doing? They are destroying our country thats, a big part of the spending bill. This is the difference between America. First policy is an american last policies when you were out and you were pushing to get the money fighting to get the money which you eventually found a way to build a five hundred miles of wall that you built. You talked about a big wall with a beautiful wall, you used to say with a big door in it im for legal immigration. All for my grandparents coming from Ireland, you remember my family story. They had no money in my in their pocket. They grew up poor im pro immigration. Is it wrong to ask for a
security check to make sure you dont have radical associations in the middle of a pandemic? It should be not give preferential treatment to people who dont respect our law, should they at least have a covid test health check. Is it wrong to say that if were going to invite you into our country, we dont care where you come from? Youve got to be able to provide for yourself, and you wont, be a financial bridge Vern, the american people. It seems like a pair conditions. Would you support that youve got to support that and for every body else they have to go through it, but they just happen to walk in and they dont have to do anything that were supposed to be done. Nobody talks about so we have hundreds of thousands of people flowing in from Haiti. Haiti has a tremendous aids problem. Aids is a step beyond AIDS is a real bad problem, so hundreds of thousands of people are coming into our
country and if you look at the stats- and you look at the numbers, if you look at just take a look, its whats happening in Haiti, a tremendous problem with aids, many of those people will probably have aids in their coming into our country. We dont do anything about it.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-10.