Taliban declares Donald Trump a 'non-serious' candidate after watching debate



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A Taliban spokesman says that after watching Monday's debate, leaders of the group decided Republican nominee Donald Trump is a "non-serious" candidate.

Taliban leaders who were "very interested in watching" the US presidential debate took in the proceedings from a secret location. And it didn't take them long to decide that one candidate was something of a joke.

"Trump ... (says) anything that comes to his tongue," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told NBC News. "(He is) non-serious."

The Taliban, an ultra-fundamentalist jihadist group responsible for the deaths of thousands of Afghans, has been fighting to regain control of Afghanistan since losing power in 2001. Since the 1990s, the Taliban has used a campaign of violence, starvation and rape to maintain control over populations.

Besides taking the time to get judgy about the Republican nominee, the Taliban expressed disappointment that Trump and Hillary Clinton didn't talk much about Afghanistan.

"There nothing of interest to us in the debate as both of them said little about Afghanistan and their future plans for the country," Mujahid said.

Monday's debate sourced questions from Facebook so maybe for the next debate, the Taliban could send a few queries about Afghanistan.