President Trump’s reelection bid received a vote of support Friday from an entity most in his party would reject: the Taliban.
President Trump’s reelection bid received a vote of support Friday from an entity most in his party would reject: the Taliban. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News in a phone interview, “We hope he will win the election and wind up U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.” The militant group expressed some concern about Mr. Trump’s bout with the coronavirus. “When we heard about Trump being COVID-19 positive, we got worried for his health, but seems he is getting better,” another Taliban senior leader told CBS News. The Trump campaign’s communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said in a statement to CBS News that it rejects the Taliban’s support and that the Taliban should know President Trump will always protect American interests by any means necessary. The Taliban’s enthusiasm for Mr. Trump is grounded in the goal they share of getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan after 19 years of war – a longtime promise of the president. There are now fewer than 5,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and national security adviser Robert O’Brien has said that number would drop to 2,500 by early next year. The Trump administration signed a in February in which the U.
