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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's Exaggerations on Predicting bin Laden

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump falsely asserted that he predicted
   Osama bin Laden's 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in a news
   conference Sunday aimed at showcasing his administration's
   accomplishments in stemming the terrorist threat abroad.

   A look at the president's claims at the briefing, where he announced
   the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State
   group:

   TRUMP: "I'm writing a book ... About a year before the World Trade
   Center came down, the book came out. I was talking about Osama bin
   Laden. I said, 'You have to kill him. You have to take him out.' Nobody
   listened to me." Trump added that people said to him, "'You predicted
   that Osama Bin Laden had to be killed, before he knocked down the World
   Trade Center.' It's true."

   THE FACTS: It's not true.

   His 2000 book, "The America We Deserve," makes a passing mention of bin
   Laden but did no more than point to the al-Qaida leader as one of many
   threats to U.S. security. Nor does he say in the book that bin Laden
   should have be killed.
   

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