WATCH: Trump attacks Biden on Ukraine, Afghanistan | CNN Presidential Debate
, I think he encouraged Russia from going in. I tell you what happened. He was so bad with Afghanistan. It was such a horrible embarrassment, most embarrassing moment in the history of our country that when Putin watched that, and he saw the incompetence that he should, he should have fired those generals like I fired the one that you mentioned. And so he’s got no love lost, but he should have fired those generals. No general got TD for the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan where we left billions of dollars of equipment behind We lost 13 beautiful soldiers and 38 soldiers were obliterated. And by the way, we left people behind, too. We left American citizens behind. When Putin saw that, he said, You know what? I think we’re gonna go in and maybe take my this was his dream. I talked to him about his dream. The difference is he never would have invaded Ukraine never, just like Israel would have never been invaded in a million years by Hamas. You know why? Because Iran was broke with me. I wouldn’t let anybody do business with them. They ran out of money. They were broke. They had no money for Hamas. They had no money for anything. No money for terror. That’s why you had no terror at all. During my administration. This place the whole world is blowing up under him. President Biden. Never heard so much malarkey in my whole life. Look, the fact of the matter is that we’re in a situation where Let’s take the last point first. Iran attacked American troops kill cause brain damage for a number of these troops, and he did nothing about it recently. Not when he was president. There. They attacked, he said. They’re just having headaches. That’s all it is. We didn’t do a thing. When the attack took place Number one number two we got over 100,000 Americans and others out of a of a Afghanistan during that airlift number three. We found ourselves in a situation where if you take a look What Trump did in Ukraine. He’s this guy told Ukraine told Trump do whatever you want and do whatever you want, and that’s exactly what Trump did. To food and encourage and do whatever you want, and you went in and listen to what he said. When he went in. He was gonna take K five days remember, because it’s part of the old Soviet Union. That’s what he wanted to Re-establish cave. And he, in fact, didn’t do it at all. He didn’t wasn’t able to get it done, and they’ve lost over. They’ve lost thousands and thousands of troops 500,000 troops. President Trump. I never said that for for one minute. I just wanna go back to my original question. Which is, are Putin’s terms acceptable to you keeping the territory in Ukraine? No, they are not acceptable. But look, this is a war that never should have started. If we had a leader in this war, he let everybody along. He’s given $200 billion now or more. To Ukraine. He’s given $200 billion. That’s a lot of money. I don’t think there’s ever been anything like it. Every time that Zelinsky comes to this country, he walks away with $60 billion. He’s the greatest salesman ever
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump sparred over the war in Ukraine during CNN’s Presidential Debate.
Trump claimed that if Russian President Vladimir Putin had respected President Biden, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine. Trump also attacked Biden on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and on his stance on Iran.
The June 27 CNN Presidential Debate was the first time Biden and Trump faced off this election season. It was also the first debate between a sitting and former president.
Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.
Subscribe to our Politics Newsletter: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe
PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts
Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG
Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
Follow us:
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pbsnews
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour
Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour