Trump Brags About His ‘Very Good’ Relationship With Taliban Co-Founder

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During his visit to the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump touted the apparently excellent relationship he now has with Taliban co-founder and deputy Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, with whom he’d spoken on the phone several hours earlier.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1294706

So good that the Taliban ended the temporary truce with the government today. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taliban-end-partial-truce-as-afghan-violence-resumes/ar-BB10DzWE

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GOD bless TRUmP. Ending WARS all OVER the WORLD. Much like JESUS did.

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For Trump, having a deal go south like the Taliban deal is normal, all he wanted was the headline that he can tout to his base going forward, it’s irrelevant if the deal works or is good for the American people.

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OT but the same moral. ETTD

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1234947921818210304

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/cdc-blocked-fda-official-premises-119684

Timothy Stenzel, who is the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, was made to wait overnight on the weekend of Feb. 22 — as senior health department officials negotiated his access in a series of calls — before Centers for Disease Control granted him permission to be on campus. Stenzel’s visit had been expected, the individuals said.

Stenzel later found evidence of lab contamination, which he reported to HHS officials and may have contributed to the coronavirus lab-test delays and other problems.

I consider CDC leadership to be corrupted until proven otherwise.

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Taliban co-founder kills his enemies.
Me like!

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Poor Jesus. After all these centuries he falls into the disgrace of having his name linked to Current Occupant. What worse fate could befall some one of his ilk?

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No mullah, no mullah, you are mullah!

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If Obama hadn’t killed him, Trump would be an ass-grabbing buddy with Osama bin Laden.

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Ruh-Roh!

Meanwhile, KJU is laughing his ass off, welcoming the newest members of his ever-growing Pawned Trump club.

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It’s the Trumpian way. Declare bankruptcy, then cut your losses and run.

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Trump on Taliban leader: “The relationship I have is very good with the Mullah.”

Widows and Orphans of 3,000 World Trade Center victims: “WTF?!”

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Stupid wanker!

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He’s going to make Little Rocket Man jealous.

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“They want to cease the violence, they’d like to cease violence also.”

And they will, once they destroy the current government.

Let’s ask the Vietnamese how this works.

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I’m a gonna mullah that over.

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Of course everything has to be the biggest, the best, the yuuugest. No other world leader has a relationship with the mullah like Donald Trump’s relationship with the mullah.

To say something like “these are bad people but this is a stupid war we can’t win” simply wouldn’t do.

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I’m so glad I had the opportunity to maybe vote his ass out today.

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Trump said that the U.S. and the terrorist organization “all have a very common interest” because “we’re looking to get this ended.”

That “very common interest” is apparently fucking over the democratically elected (flawed, to be sure, but we’re hardly in a position to cast stones nowadays) government of Afghanistan, who were not consulted at all in our oh-so-great peace deal.

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