Trump claims in his book that he predicted that bin Laden had to be killed before
he would knock down the Trade center. He said this Yesterday during his announcement of Al-Baghdadi's death. But a fact check says otherwise.
Sure am glad Pelosi is going fill steam ahead with the impeachment process.
Fifteen stunning moments from Trump's announcement of al-Baghdadi's death
Trump said the ISIS leader "died like a dog, he died like a coward. He was whimpering, screaming, and crying."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fifteen-stunning-moments-trump-s-press-conference-al-baghdadi-s-n1072536?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
'He died like a coward' President Trump announces death of al-Baghdadi
Oct. 27, 201908:32
Oct. 27, 2019, 10:41 AM CDT
By Allan Smith
.......... "I also want Hamza bin Laden because he's a young man around 30, looks just like his father, tall, very handsome, and he was talking bad things just like his father."
"You know, if you read my book, there was a book just before the World Trade Center came down. And I don't get any credit for this but that's OK. I never do. But here we are. I wrote a book, a really very successful book and in that book about a year before the World Trade Center was blown up, I said there is somebody named Osama bin Laden, you better kill him or take him out, something to that effect, he's big trouble. Now, I wasn't in government. I was building buildings and doing what I did but I always found it fascinating. But I saw this man, tall, handsome, very charismatic making horrible statements about wanting to destroy our country. And I'm writing a book. I think I wrote 12 books. All did very well. And I'm writing a book, World Trade Center had not come down. I think it was about, if you check it was a year before the World Trade Center came down. And nobody heard of al-Baghdadi. And no one heard of Osama bin Laden until really the World Trade Center. But about a year, a year and a half before the World Trade Center, before the book came out, I was talking about Osama bin Laden, you have to kill him, you have to take him out. Nobody listened to me. 
And to this day I get people coming up to me and they said you know what, one of the most amazing things I've seen about you is that you predicted that Osama bin Laden had to be killed before he knocked down the World Trade Center. It's true. Most of the press doesn't want to write that but it is true. If you go back and look at my book, I think it's 'The America We Deserve.' I made a prediction — let's put it this way, if they would have listened to me, a lot of things would have been different."
Of note, Trump made just one passing reference to bin Laden in that book, published in January 2000.
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Fact Check of the Day
Trump’s Misleading Claim That He Warned About Osama bin Laden
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/us/politics/fact-check-trump-bin-laden-pakistan-mcraven.html
The warning amounted to a fleeting mention in his 2000 book, which was published after Osama bin Laden was already one of the world’s most wanted terrorists.
By Linda Qiu
Nov. 19, 2018
What Mr. Trump Said
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