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Donald Trump’s Osama Bin Laden Comments Raise Eyebrows

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-osama-bin-laden-comments-raise-eyebrows-10832802

Published

Oct 06, 2025 at 07:56 AM EDT


................President Donald Trump said in his speech on Sunday that he should be credited for flagging Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks: “We got to take a little credit because nobody else is going to give it to me. You know the old story: They don’t give you credit, just take it yourself.”

CNN reporter Daniel Dale wrote on X: “President Trump told this tale about his 2000 book again today. I (and others) debunked it six years ago. He’s been repeating it for at least 10 years.”

Jessica Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote on X: “I mean, the U.S. govt had been aware of Bin Laden for decades, and by the mid-1990s he was the CIA’s most wanted terrorist with several well-known attacks. They were actively pursuing him at the time. So Trump’s boast is like warning the world about Hitler in 1942.”

Author and journalist James Surowiecki wrote on X: “The book published under his name in 2000 contains one glancing reference to bin Laden. And the reason Trump can’t remember the name of the book is because a ghost writer wrote it for him.”