DONALD TRUMP: I want the war to stop. I want to save lives that are being uselessly -- people being killed by the millions. It's so much worse than the numbers that you're getting, which are fake numbers. Look, we're in for $250 billion or more because they don't ask Europe. They're in for $150 billion less because Biden and [V.P. Harris] don't have the courage to ask Europe like I did with NATO. That is a war that's dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I even become president. If I win, when I'm President-Elect, and what I'll do is I'll speak to one, I'll speak to the other, I'll get them together.
Q: Just to clarify the question, do you believe it's in the U.S. best interests for Ukraine to win this war? Yes or no?
DONALD TRUMP: I think it's in the U.S. best interest to get this war finished and just get it done. All right. Negotiate a deal. Because we have to stop all of these human lives from being destroyed.
DONALD TRUMP: I want the war to stop. I will get it settled before I even become president. If I win, when I'm President-Elect, and what I'll do is I'll speak to one, I'll speak to the other. I think it's in the U.S. best interest to get this war finished and just get it done. Negotiate a deal. Because we have to stop all of these human lives from being destroyed.
Q: Would you deal with Vladimir Putin any differently from what we're seeing from President Biden?
KAMALA HARRIS: I believe the reason that Donald Trump says that this war would be over within 24 hours is because he would just give it up. And that's not who we are as Americans. Let's understand what happened here. I actually met with Zelenskyy a few days before Russia invaded, tried through force to change territorial boundaries [defying] international rules. Days later I went to NATO's eastern flank. And we brought 50 countries together to support Ukraine in its righteous defense.
TRUMP: At that period of time, the Taliban was killing our soldiers, a lot of them, with snipers. And I got involved with the Taliban because the Taliban was doing the killing. They don't bother doing that because, you know, they deal with the wrong people all the time. But I got involved. And Abdul is the head of the Taliban. He is still the head of the Taliban. And I told Abdul, "don't do it anymore, you do it anymore you're going to have problems." And he said, "why do you send me a picture of my house?" I said, "you're going to have to figure that out, Abdul." And for 18 months we had nobody killed.
[Fact Check: The Hill, 9/11/24]: It's not clear who Trump was referring to. Hibatullah Akhundzada is the Taliban's leader since 2016. Trump has talked about an "Abdul" before in discussing the Taliban, which could be a reference to top Taliban policy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar.
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