During a sit-down in the final lead-up to the general election with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump started talking about “Bagram,” saying it was in Alaska. It actually refers to an airbase in Afghanistan.
Sanders is now the governor of Arkansas, a post her father — Mike Huckabee — once held. She was formerly a public-facing official in the Trump White House.
“We were soon going to be energy dominant,” Trump claimed. “And we would have been now having so much money coming out of the energy — we just have the best. We have Bagram in Alaska. They say it might be as big, might be bigger, than all of Saudi Arabia. I got it approved. Ronald Reagan couldn’t do it. Nobody could do it. I got it done. In their first week, they terminated it.”
Trump’s description actually applies to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is also called ANWR.
And notably, a group of 17 individuals who formerly served as staff members for the late Ronald Reagan recently endorsed Democratic presidential nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s race for the White House.
“President Ronald Reagan famously spoke about a “Time for Choosing”. While he is not here to experience the current moment, we who worked for him in the White House, in the Administration, in campaigns and on his personal staff, know he would join us in supporting the Harris-Walz ticket,” that group asserted.
Harris is also supported by other Republican Party figures, like a coalition of more than 200 who’ve worked for four different Republican presidents and presidential nominees (excluding Trump). A couple former officials in the Trump administration also spoke in August in Harris’ favor at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, which Democrats held in Chicago.
