A former United States National Security Adviser says President Donald Trump once argued that the $1.
5bn aid given to Nigeria annually should be stopped, while funding for military operations in Afghanistan and Syria should be cut.
Bolton, who left Trump’s administration last year, said the President of Nigeria, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari , had confirmed that indeed, Nigeria was receiving a lot of money from the US annually. Bolton further claimed that Trump argued that the US should cut funding to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, while funds should be released for the construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border.
“Then he was off, ‘Why can’t we just get out of Syria and Afghanistan? I never should have agreed to the other two hundred , and it’s really 400 anyway…Then after literally 45 seconds back on Afghanistan, Trump asked, Why are we in Africa?’Lagos ministry queried me, stopped my salary for shooting video on street sweepers’ suffering — Asthmatic LAWMA supervisor
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