Fact check: Trump falsely claims, again, that his pre-9/11 book warned about Osama bin Laden

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump has been claiming for the last decade that in a book he published the year before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he warned the authorities that they needed to deal with Osama bin Laden.
50% : Trump added, in an apparent ad-lib, "And please remember, I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago," then corrected himself and said, "One year before he blew up the World Trade Center.
50% : But Trump continued: "In the book, I wrote - whatever the hell the title, I can't tell you - but I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden, and I didn't like it, and, 'You gotta take care of him.'
50% : That wouldn't have been particularly prescient advice even if Trump had offered it in January 2000 - bin Laden was already a well-known threat to Americans at the time - but the book simply did not offer it.
50% : In a separate section of the book, Trump did predict that the US would be hit by major terror attacks, writing, "I really am convinced we're in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the (1993) bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers.
50% : " But Trump did not predict that bin Laden (or anyone else in particular) would be responsible for these future attacks.
50% : And Trump acknowledged it was a widespread belief among analysts that major attacks would occur, not a special insight of his own.
50% : It's understandable if Trump doesn't remember precisely what was in the book; it was released 25 years ago and was ghostwritten by someone else, writer Dave Shiflett.
46% : One day we're all assured that Iraq is under control, the UN inspectors have done their work, everything's fine, not to worry.
12% : This time, Trump delivered the phony narrative after saying history wouldn't forget how it was Navy Seals who killed bin Laden (in 2011 under then-President Barack Obama, a frequent target of Trump criticism).

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