By Dominic Taylor-
Former U.S president, Donald Trump has branded the Taliban as ‘good fighters’, claiming they’ve been fighting for a thousand years.
Trump made the comments in the wake of the Taliban regaining control of Afghanistan, including the country’s capital of Kabul.
Videos have shown large crowds of people running around Hamid Karzai International Airport which has led to both US troops and the Taliban firing gunshots in a bid to break up the chaos.
Trump also called on President Joe Biden to ‘resign in disgrace’.
Speaking on Fox News‘ The Sean Hannity Show yesterday, August 17, he described the Islamic militia as ‘smart’, and ‘good fighters’.
He said, ‘The Taliban, good fighters I will tell you, good fighters. You have to give them credit for that. They’ve been fighting for a thousand years; what they do is they fight.’
Further discussing the events in Afghanistan, Trump continued:
The Taliban has circled the airport, and who knows if they’re going to treat us right? All of a sudden, they’ll say — well, frankly, if they were smart, they’d really — and they are smart, they are smart. They should let the Americans out.Biden isn’t the only president Trump is critical of; the 75-year-old also criticised Afghanistan’s former president Ashraf Ghani who has fled the country.
He told Fox News, ‘I wanted [the Taliban] to get a deal done with the Afghan government. Now, I never had a lot of confidence, frankly, in Ghani. I said that openly and plainly I thought he was a total crook.’
Trump continued to say he ‘never liked’ Ghani, and accused him of ‘[getting] away with murder in many, many different ways’