Trump's memory 'very foggy,' says author Ramin Setoodeh
Former President Donald Trump excused himself from an interview with an author because he said he had to deal with an Afghanistan-related issue, even though he no longer had foreign policy powers, according to audio shared exclusively with NBC News.
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump said during a post-presidency interview with an author that he had to deal with an Afghanistan-related issue, even though he no longer had foreign policy powers, according to audio shared exclusively with NBC News.
“The reason I’m doing this and devoting a lot of time to it, I have to get back up, because I’m doing the whole thing with the Afghanistan," Trump told author Ramin Setoodeh in a post-presidency interview. "Has he blown that Afghanistan?”
Setoodeh, who wrote the new book "Apprentice in Wonderland," has previously described the Afghanistan conversation with Trump, saying in an interview with CNN that Trump "seemed to think that he still had some foreign policy powers."
But President Joe Biden had prohibited Trump from receiving intelligence briefings that are typically provided to former presidents.
Reached for clarification about Trump's Afghanistan comments, Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung criticized Biden's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal as "botched" and pointed to the deaths of 13 service members.
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