WATCH: Trump takes communist China to task in new Kash Patel interview

Patel, who served as a White House aide as well as the Pentagon chief-of-staff, asked Trump for his taken on President Joe Biden's handling of relations with the Chinese Communist Party, which many have said Biden has kowtowed to at the expense of the American people and their interests.

"It’s got to be reset. China now is going to be on a rampage. I think after the Olympics, bad things will happen with respect to Taiwan," Trump said, before slamming Biden's handling of relations with Ukraine, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.

Trump said of Biden and the Democrats handling of power "I used to think they were just grossly incompetent. Now, it’s a combination of that and their policy is so bad. So, it’s easy for me to say you have to get strong with China, you have to do tariffs, you have to do a lot of different things. But they’re not going to be doing it."

Later in the interview, Trump said of China "China got away with something that’s absolutely terrible, one of the worst things ever to happen to the world, maybe the worst thing, because the whole world has been so affected by the China virus. The world has been affected. But I had a great relationship with China up until that point. At that point, it was too much. How do you have a great relationship when you have millions of people all over the world dying?

"And now Biden gets in, and he does such a horrible job with the COVID. It’s like they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. He came in, 'I’m going to solve COVID.' They had more in his year. We developed therapeutics, vaccines, everything with all of the stuff they have, all of the knowledge that we learned, all of the gear that we bought, with the ventilators and with the outfits, the masks, and the goggles. We stocked up the whole country, we did a great job. I got very little credit for doing it, that was an incredible job. All the cupboards were bare, the states were bare, the United States government, our cupboards were empty, They were all empty and we stocked them up. And Biden comes in and they didn’t know what they were doing."

Patel asked about the COVID tests, which are mostly made in China. "We have tests coming in made in China that don’t work. They didn’t have any tests for the new variant that came in, they are so unprepared. It’s been terrible," Trump said.

"We have to end the mandates," he said, "The mandates are horrible, and they have to be ended. They shouldn’t have started. Initially, I closed it to China, but I let the governors make the decision on what they’re going to do. Not every state closed, some did some didn’t. Some absolutely remained open. You know the ones, and I know the ones. But I said, “You make your own decision.” From a state standpoint, it was really the right thing to do.

"The Democrats went crazy, and they just closed everything. New York, I don’t know if it’s ever going to be the same, what they did. It’s just so sad what happened in New York. Look at what happened in Los Angeles, what happened in parts of California. But a lot of Republicans did a very, very great job in terms of that. But you know, I didn’t close anything. I let the governors make that decision."

The interview can be seen fully at Epoch Times.