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Trump Repeats Wild Bin Laden Claim That's Been Proven False

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06.01.2026

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea on October 29, 2025 in Japan.

President Donald Trump keeps repeating a falsehood about Osama bin Laden — perhaps in the hopes that the more he says it, the more people will believe it.

The president spoke about the late founder of al Qaeda on Sunday while aboard Air Force One, where he was accompanied by Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican, South Carolina) and reporters.

Trump spoke to the gaggle about Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by US forces and flown to New York City, alongside his wife, to face narco-terrorism charges. While talking about the deposed leader, the president pivoted to an astonishing claim about bin Laden.

“Lindsey mentioned bin Laden. Do you know I wrote about bin Laden one year before the attack in the World Trade Center and I said, you got to go after bin Laden?” Trump........

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