President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visit the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, October 5, 2025. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

President Donald Trump likes to portray himself as a visionary, someone who sees important things before others. 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.

Trump’s claim is false. His 2000 book contained no warning at all about bin Laden. His tale about the book’s nonexistent warning was conclusively debunked in 2015. CNN published another debunking when he revived the tale in 2019.

But the president repeated it once again on Sunday – to a cro

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