US EditionTrump brags he 'warned' the US about bin Laden a year before 9/11 in bizarre claim
Trump claims he warned about Osama bin Laden a year before 9/11 in his 2000 book despite evidence showing the mention was brief and not predictive of the attacks.
- On Sunday, President Donald Trump repeated his claim before sailors in Norfolk, Virginia, that his 2000 book warned about the threat posed by Osama bin Laden.
- Trump's assertion builds on his longstanding narrative that he foresaw and alerted officials to bin Laden one year before the September 11, 2001, attacks.
- Multiple fact checks, including from CNN, have found that 'The America We Deserve' contains only a brief mention of bin Laden and does not predict or advise action against him.
- CNN reported in 2019 that Trump’s book did not include a directive or warning about bin Laden and refuted Trump’s claim multiple times.
- Despite these findings, Trump has continued making this debunked claim for over a decade, drawing further media scrutiny and criticism.
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'Got To Take Credit': Trump On Warning About Osama Bin Laden Year Before 9/11
President Donald Trump took credit for warning about Osama bin Laden a year before the al-Qaeda leader perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, as he lauded US Navy Seals for putting a "bullet in his head".
Trump brags he 'warned' the US about bin Laden a year before 9/11 in bizarre claim
Donald Trump has bragged that he ‘warned’ of Osama bin Laden a year before 9/11 happened.The US president has repeated his bizarre claim that he could have prevented the devastating terrorist attacks if he had been listened to at the time.
Fact check: Trump falsely claims, again, that his pre-9/11 book warned about Osama bin Laden
President Donald Trump likes to portray himself as a visionary, someone who sees important things before others. Trump has been claiming for the last decade that in a book he released the year before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he warned the authorities that they needed to deal with Osama bin Laden.
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