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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump, 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 speechhttps://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674156560/
""In the bookI can't tell you the titlebut 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 youll 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
What's next, "Frankly, I knew Timothy McVeigh was going to fly a plane into the Alfred P. Hitchcock building!"
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Oct 6
#5
underpants
(193,476 posts)1. Jesus. OBL was on everyone's list. Like Trump ever had an original good idea.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,414 posts)2. He couldn't remember the name of a book he wrote?
Memory issues seem to have been around 25 years ago.
DavidDvorkin
(20,386 posts)4. He didn't write it
Or any other book.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,700 posts)3. Liar
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,275 posts)5. What's next, "Frankly, I knew Timothy McVeigh was going to fly a plane into the Alfred P. Hitchcock building!"
