While Announcing ISIS Leader's Death, Trump Falsely Claimed He Called for bin Laden's Death a Year Before 9/11
President Donald Trump. On Sunday, PresidentDonald Trumpconfirmed that long-hunted Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadihad been killed. Then he claimed, not for the first time, that if anyone had bothered listening to him back in 2000, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden would have been killed long before 2011. After announcing Baghdadi’s death, the president said Sunday that he knew that bin Laden was a threat before the 9/11 attacks at a time when “nobody” had “ever heard of” bin Laden....