*WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump recently defended hisadministration’s decision to cut hundreds of millions of dollars inmilitary aid to Pakistan, saying the country doesn’t do “a damn thing forus”.*
Speaking to *Fox Newslink,*theUS president accused the government of helping Osama bin Laden hide in thecountry.
“You know, living – think of this – living in Pakistan, beautifully inPakistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I don’t know, I’veseen nicer,” he said, referring to bin Laden and his former compoundin Abbottabad.
The compound was demolished shortly after United States Naval SpecialWarfare Development Group forces killed bin Laden there in 2011.
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“But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody inPakistan knew he was there,” he added.
“And we give Pakistan $1.3 billion a year . …[bin Laden] lived in Pakistan,we’re supporting Pakistan, we’re giving them $1.3 billion a year — which wedon’t give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they don’t doanything for us, they don’t do a damn thing for us,” he said.
