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Donald Trump: “We had a meeting scheduled. It was my idea and it was my idea to terminate it. I didn't even -- I didn't discuss it with…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2019
We had a meeting scheduled. It was my idea and it was my idea to terminate it. I didn't even -- I didn't discuss it with anybody else. When I heard very simply that they killed one of our soldiers and 12 other innocent people, I said, there's no way I'm meeting on that basis. There's no way I'm meeting. They did a mistake.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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President Trump explains his decision to cancel the meeting with the Taliban after a soldier was killed.

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