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Key Takeaways from Trump’s Interview with Tucker Carlson

In his first interview since his unprecedented arrest, former President Donald Trump claimed that Manhattan court employees “were actually crying” and even apologized to him when he was arraigned last week.

Trump described the apparent mood of some Manhattan Criminal Court workers in a sit-down with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, where the 45th president also raised concerns over President Biden’s mental health and vowed he wouldn’t drop out of the 2024 presidential race, even if convicted.

“When I went to the courthouse which is also a prison in a sense, they signed me in and I’ll tell you people were crying. People that work there,” Trump said.

“Professionally work there that have no problems putting in murderers and they see everybody. It’s a tough, tough place and they were crying. They were actually crying. They said ‘I’m sorry,’” he told Carlson in the interview that aired Tuesday night.

2024 Presidential race

Carlson asked Trump if any of his legal woes would cause him to drop out of the race.

“No, I’d never drop out — it’s not my thing. I wouldn’t do it,” the former president responded.

Trump told Carlson that he doesn’t believe Biden, 80, is fit for another four years in the White House.

“Look, I watch him just like you do. And I think it’s almost inappropriate for me to say it. I don’t see how it’s possible. But there’s something wrong,” he said. “I saw his answer today on television about whether or not he was going to run to a very nice guy named Al Roker. You can’t get a softer question than that. It was a long answer about the eggs and this and that, look I don’t think he can.”

The president has repeatedly insisted that he “intends” to run, but his advanced age and questions about his mental acuity have led to doubts among fellow Democrats.

Biden’s botched Afghanistan exit

Trump also hammered Biden and military leaders for the disastrous US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“Afghanistan, one of the worst things I’ve ever seen,” said Trump. “I think the most embarrassing moment that this country has ever had, frankly.”

The former president claimed that under his withdrawal plans, the US would have maintained control of Afghanistan’s largest airfield, Bagram Airfield, in order to keep China in check.

“It’s one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons,” Trump said of Bagram Airfield, which fell to Taliban forces after it was abandoned by US troops in August of 2021.

“It’s one of the biggest air force bases in the world – I think the biggest – with runways that go 10,000 feet. I was keeping that because of China, not because of Afghanistan,” Trump claimed.

The ex-commander-in-chief told Carlson that US military officials, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, fought him on his insistence that the US not leave military equipment behind in Afghanistan.

“I said I want every nail, I want every screw. I want the tents – they said, ‘Sir the tents are very hard to take out.’ I said I want the tents. I want the tanks. I want the planes. I want everything. And a couple of them fought me on it, like Milley,” Trump claimed.

“He said, ‘Sir, I think it’s cheaper to leave the equipment behind,’” Trump said, mimicking Milley’s apparent refusal to bring military gear back to the US.

“These are idiots who we’re dealing with, they left $85 billion worth of equipment. They left our American citizens behind. And they moved the military out first – no, you move the military out last,” said Trump.

Trump’s Conversations with Putin and Xi Jinping

The former president also told Carlson that he talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin “often” about Ukraine.

“I could see that he loved it,” Trump said of Putin’s obsession with the former Soviet state.

“He considers it to be a part of Russia,” he added. “I said, ‘Not when I’m president.’”

Trump claimed that he told Putin he was going to do something “really nasty” if Russia ever invaded Ukraine while he was in office.

The 45th president said he made similar threats to Chinese leader Xi Jinping while in office regarding Taiwan.

“I told him you can’t go into Taiwan. You can’t, you can’t do it. I won’t tell you exactly what I said, but it was something that probably a lot of people wouldn’t like if they heard it, but it was very tough,” Trump claimed, adding that Xi didn’t seem to completely believe him.

“He said to me, when I said we’re going to do something if he goes in, ‘No, no, no, you wouldn’t do it.’”

To which Trump said he responded, “I’ll do that, I swear I’ll do that.”

“And he didn’t believe me, but he believed me 10%,” the former president claims, which he said was enough to deter Xi from invading Taiwan.

China’s growing nuclear arsenal

Trump warned that within five years China will have as much nuclear firepower as the US. He told Carlson that nuclear weapons, in general, are the biggest global threat, a threat he dubbed “nuclear warming,” which he says far exceeds the threat of “global warming.”

“The weaponry today is so powerful. This isn’t like the Second World War,” he said.

“Within five years China will have equal to us – I’m talking about nuclear [weapons],” Trump explained.

“China has the beginnings of a very big, very powerful nuclear [arsenal] – they’re short five years,” he added, explaining that their nuclear program is much newer than the US or Russia’s.

Trump also complimented Xi on his “top of the line” intelligence, calling him “a brilliant man.”

“If you went all over Hollywood to look for somebody to play the role of President Xi. You couldn’t find it. There’s nobody like that. The look, the brain, the whole suite,” Trump told Carlson.

However, the former president criticized French President Emmanuel Macron during the interview for recent meetings with XI, accusing Macron of “kissing his ass.”

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