Day 669: As usual, what Trump claims now is exactly the opposite of the truth: bin Laden edition

He can’t re-write history because his previous words are literally published.

Donald Trump has been in public feud with the architect of the military raid that ultimately killed Osama bin Laden and recovered troves of intelligence in Pakistan in 2011. Sunday, Trump lambasted retired Admiral William McRaven and U.S. intelligence as a whole for failing to kill bin Laden sooner, telling Fox News’ Chris Wallace, “Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldn’t it have been nice?” He also accused the career military officer of being “a Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer.”

For unknown reasons, he wanted to keep the story in the news. So Trump doubled down Monday, saying his book warned of the danger of bin Laden before the September 11th attack.

Except his book literally says the exact opposite.

Trump’s book scoffed at the notion that an unknown and “shadowy figure with no fixed address” could possibly be “public enemy number one.” He dismissed that notion saying that within a few news cycles, there’s a new crisis that distracts Americans. He couldn’t have been more wrong about bin Laden, but that isn’t stopping him from trying to claim he was actually right.

Trump was wrong in 2000, and two decades later he has the gall to insult the men and women who brought bin Laden to justice.

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