evidence: CLAIM: When former President Donald Trump was in charge, 18 months went by in Afghanistan when "we didn’t lose one American soldier." [...] THE FACTS: While speaking in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Trump claimed while discussing the U.S. war in Afghanistan: "When I was in charge, in 18 months, we didn’t lose one American soldier." "In 18 months in Afghanistan, we lost nobody," he later emphasized after mentioning that day’s deadly shooting in Buffalo, New York, in which a white gunman killed 10 Black people in a supermarket.