President Donald Trump made a series of false claims at his Monday press conference about the war with Iran, during which his remarks strayed into other foreign policy issues.
Trump also made multiple uncorroborated claims that can’t be definitively fact-checked, such as an assertion that every living former president is now saying “to their friends” that the US should have attacked Iran long ago. Here’s a rundown on some of his checkable remarks.
Trump’s book and Osama bin Laden: Trump repeated his long-debunked lie that he wrote in a 2000 book that the authorities needed to kill Osama bin Laden.
After Trump correctly noted that the US killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani on his orders in 2020, Trump added, “I did one other, but this one was not picked up: Osama bin Laden. If you read my book, I said, ‘You got to take him out’ – one year before the World Trade Center came down. So I wish you’d read the book.”
In reality, the book did not offer any advice about how to deal with bin Laden, let alone do anything about bin Laden; it mentioned bin Laden just once in passing. The terrorist was killed by US forces in a 2011 raid ordered by then-President Barack Obama more than five years before Trump took office.
Iran and US planes: After noting that US ally Kuwait accidentally shot down three US planes earlier in the Iran war, Trump said, “The only planes, really, that we lost were – friendly fire, they call it.” But the focus of this very press conference was the rescue...
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