President Donald Trump insisted he predicted the terror attack on 9/11 on Monday while claiming he made another forecast about Iran.
The problem with Trump’s rambling was that he did not, in fact, predict Osama Bin Laden’s attack as he claimed.
It comes amid fresh questions whether the Trump administration had underestimated Iran’s retaliation by shuttering the Strait of Hormuz in response to the U.S. strikes.
The president claimed he knew that the Strait would be a “weapon” and that he had predicted it “a long time ago,” right after he begged U.S. allies to help protect shipping through the waterway, three weeks into his war.
“I predicted all of this stuff,” Trump boasted. “I predicted Osama Bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center.”
The president claimed he made the prediction a year before the attack on 9/11.
“I said, ‘You better get him. He’s a bad guy.’ I watched him be interviewed one time, and I said, ‘That’s a bad guy. You’d better get him. One year before exactly. I wrote it in a book,” Trump insisted. “You can even check, about a year before the World Trade Center came down.”
The president went on to blast former President Bill Clinton for not taking out Bin Laden before the attack.
The problem is that Trump’s Bin Laden lie has been checked and debunked numerous times.
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