Trump: ’97 percent of people that came in from Afghanistan shouldn’t be here’

He is likely to be proven right about that in the near future.

“Trump Says U.S. ‘Laughingstock,’ Addresses Border Wall, Terrorism Threat, Afghanistan Exit,” by Fatima Khaled, Newsweek, October 24, 2021:

Former President Donald Trump said in a statement released Sunday that the U.S. is now a “laughingstock all over the world!” as he addressed the Afghanistan withdrawal and terrorism threat, among other issues….

In his remarks about immigration, Trump pointed out that many Afghans who fled their country after the Taliban takeover shouldn’t be in the United States. He noted that: “97 percent of people that came in from Afghanistan rushed the planes and shouldn’t be here. Those people must be checked very carefully because many of them will turn out to be strongly-related to high-level terrorism.”

“How stupid our country has become. So sad to watch when just 10 months ago we had none of these problems, and none either with bad economy, inflation, [and] fuel prices going through the roof,” he said.

Towards the end of his statement, Trump pointed that the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should have been executed differently, referring to the 13 U.S. service members who were “needlessly killed” during a bombing outside the Kabul airport in August.

“We would have been out but we would have been out with dignity,” he said….