During a strange moment in Tuesdays presidential debate, Donald Trump made a passing reference to Abdul no last name and said that as president, he sent a picture of Abduls own house to him as a threat.

But this is Donald Trump, so of course, theres a strange history to the claim. The story has changed over the years, from an offhand comment to a viral claim about threatening a Taliban leader with a satellite photo.

The Abdul in question is Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Baradar, a Taliban official and co-founder of the movement that now controls Afghanistan, was the United States negotiating partner when the Trump administration led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the American diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad agreed to a February 2020 deal to withdraw from the country. The deal, known as the Doha Agreement , has been criticized for not containing enforcement mechanisms to hold the Taliban accountable to its terms.

Baradar was languishing in a Pakistani jail before 2018 when the United States and high-level negotiations were credited with his release. Contrary to Trumps claim, hes never been the head of the Taliban.