Yesterday, Trump spoke to the MAGA friendliest radio host in existence, Hugh Hewitt, in one of the most bizarre interviews one will ever hear. We reported on parts of the interview yesterday. Today we will get into how CNN’s Chris Cilizza broke down certain portions pertaining to Trump’s meeting with Talibani leaders. In 2020, Trump spoke with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a Taliban co-founder while negotiating a treaty… the same one that led the United States to leave Afghanistan this month.

Hewitt’s mistake was asking a question so open-ended that CNN timed the answer as five and a half minutes, but here is the question:

“What did you communicate to Baradar, Mullah Baradar, Abdul Baradar who you talked to when you spoke to him? What did you tell him?

The correct answer is; “We are pulling out on August 31st 2021 and if one American or Afghan is hurt, we may pull out of the deal and I will spend my days looking for you.”

That is not the answer Trump gave. Near as anyone could tell, it went something like below, with Cilizza’s comments intermixed:

Trump:

“I spoke to, and sort of the known head, but nobody was sure, but now I’m sure, and I was sure then when I was speaking to him. And I knew as soon as I spoke to him. And even the introduction, I say hello, and he screamed something very tough.”

Political Flare: (Like what? “You’re an asshole”? Sorry, but we’re getting played. Trump owes the American people answers, this matters.)

Cilizza hypothesized that Trump truly had no idea to whom he was speaking. Was it the leader of the Taliban? His valet? The guy who watches women for the wrong kind of moves? Cilizza  basically threw his hands up into the air:

“If I am reading this right, Trump wasn’t sure that Baradar was the head of the Taliban when the conversation first started, but he figured it out once Baradar ‘screamed something very tough.’”

Trump then began to retell the story;

“And then he asked me one question, and I’d rather not repeat that question, because it’s a very scary question. But he asked me one question, and I gave him the answer yes.” (The American people are able to handle scary questions. Is Trump able to remember very scary questions from a year ago? Any questions?).

Whatever it was, Hewitt didn’t even ask why Trump thought it was too tough. He just let it go. Talk about soft interviews. Trump just marched on:

“I wanted to be out by May 1. I had spoken to him quite a bit before May 1, but we had a condition of May 1. But they missed conditions, and so therefore, I bombed and we hit them very hard… I never realized, and of course I realized the importance and power of the presidency...”

Cilizza called it “surreal” that at that late date, in 2021 post-presidency, Trump still hadn’t quite figured out the power he held as president. According to Cilizza:

So, Trump never realized the power of the presidency until after he had left office and was watching the Afghanistan situation from afar? Really? Of course, he also contradicts himself in the same answer when he says ‘of course I realized the importance and power of the presidency’ right before he says ‘I never realized how important the office of the president is.’ So….The back-and-forth is, well, something else.

Trump is something else. He is unable to even retell the story, literally. All Trump knows is that he could have gotten us out with fewer issues than those facing Biden. From the interview alone, such an assertion is… surreal, and offensive.

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