President Donald Trump keeps repeating a falsehood about Osama bin Laden — perhaps in the hopes that the more he says it, the more people will believe it.
The president spoke about the late founder of al Qaeda on Sunday while aboard Air Force One, where he was accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and reporters.
Trump spoke to the gaggle about Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by U.S. forces and flown to New York City, alongside his wife, to face narco-terrorism charges. While talking about the deposed leader, the president pivoted to an astonishing claim about bin Laden.
“Lindsey mentioned bin Laden. Do you know I wrote about bin Laden one year before the attack in the World Trade Center and I said, you got to go after bin Laden?” Trump falsely claimed. “It was in my book and very few people want to say that, but it was in my book.”
“You know that I think you’ve actually talked about it,” he told a reporter. “But if they would have listened to me, they would have taken out bin Laden and you wouldn’t have had the World Trade Center tragedy.”
