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Miles Archer

(20,502 posts)
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 05:22 PM Oct 5

Trump, at "Navy 250" celebration, takes a victory lap for something he never said about Bin Laden prior to 9/11

'Gotta take a little credit': Trump repeats debunked claim during Navy celebration speech

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674156560/

""In the book—I can't tell you the title—but there is a page in there where I say I saw somebody named Osama Bin Laden and I didn't like it and you gotta take care of him," he continued. "They didn't do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Center, so I gotta take a little credit because nobody else is going to give it to me."

"You know the old story," Trump added. "They don't give you credit, just take it yourself."

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“About a year – you’ll have to check it, a year, year and a half before the World Trade Center came down, the book came out. I was talking about Osama bin Laden. I said, ‘You have to kill him. You have to take him out.’ Nobody listened to me,” Trump said at the time.

CNN's fact-check revealed Trump's book referred to Bin Laden once, but did not did not "call for bin Laden to be killed or warn that he would perpetrate a major attack if he were not killed."
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Trump, at "Navy 250" celebration, takes a victory lap for something he never said about Bin Laden prior to 9/11 (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 5 OP
Jesus. OBL was on everyone's list. Like Trump ever had an original good idea. underpants Oct 5 #1
He couldn't remember the name of a book he wrote? greatauntoftriplets Oct 5 #2
He didn't write it DavidDvorkin Oct 6 #4
Liar BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 5 #3
What's next, "Frankly, I knew Timothy McVeigh was going to fly a plane into the Alfred P. Hitchcock building!" RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Oct 6 #5

greatauntoftriplets

(178,410 posts)
2. He couldn't remember the name of a book he wrote?
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 05:29 PM
Oct 5

Memory issues seem to have been around 25 years ago.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,269 posts)
5. What's next, "Frankly, I knew Timothy McVeigh was going to fly a plane into the Alfred P. Hitchcock building!"
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 12:42 AM
Oct 6
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