Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during his first post-presidency campaign rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio, U.S., June 26, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton - RC2O8O9GRBAO
Washington [US], October 10 (ANI): Former US President Donald Trump has said US military equipment left behind in Afghanistan was not disabled and will now benefit other powers, including Russia and China.”Russia and China already have samples of our great helicopters. We have the Apache helicopters … and they are now re-engineering the equipment, they are de-engineering. They are taking it apart, they are figuring it out and very soon they’ll be building the best stuff for less money,” Sputnik quoted Trump as saying at the “Save America” rally in Des Moines on Saturday.
Trump alleged that only three per cent of all people who were taken out of Afghanistan on US evacuation flights were qualified to be taken to the United States. “They had no idea who was getting on those planes,” Trump said.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, US troops destroyed or disabled nearly 100 combat vehicles and dozens of aircraft before leaving Kabul in August. Trump said that contrary to some claims, the equipment left in Afghanistan was not disabled and “tremendous numbers” of US weaponry and equipment are now being sold on the black market.
In September, Trump told a crowd of supporters in Perry, Georgia that US President Joe Biden’s handling of the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was a major display of incompetence.
Trump chides Biden’s proposed tax changes, says US administration incentivising people to go to China
President Trump ripped into Biden administration plans to roll back on previous administration’s tax cuts, saying the new tax policy will only benefit China.
Speaking at the “Save America” rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on Saturday, Trump said US President Joe Biden‘s plan will make the business tax rate one of the highest in the world and “actually substantially higher than a place called communist China.”
The former president said that this will give US businesses the tax advantages to locate jobs in China, Sputnik reported. “We are incentivising people to go to China,” Trump said, emphasizing that, in contrast to Biden, he “wants to build up America.”
His reaction comes as Democrat lawmakers have released plans for a partial rollback of Trump’s tax cuts.
Members of the powerful Ways and Means Committee which sets tax policy propose raising the top rate of corporation tax to 26.5 per cent from 21 per cent. (ANI)
Trump says Michigan Rally will seek ‘forensic audit’ of 2020 election
Former US President Donald Trump has called a rally for Tuesday in an effort to again revisit the results of last year’s presidential election won by his Democrat rival, Joe Biden.
“Big Michigan Rally coming up on October 12, on the Capitol steps in Lansing, where Patriots will demand a Forensic Audit of the 2020 Presidential Election Scam,” he said in a statement.
Trump insisted that “voter fraud” was real, even though legal challenges against vote results in several states have so far failed to convince judges that the ballot was rigged.
The Michigan State Capitol identified the organizers as the Election Integrity Fund, a non-profit “concerned with attempts to subvert the integrity of our elections.” The anticipated number of attendees stands at 100. (ANI/Sputnik)
