President Donald Trump has once again revived one of his most outlandish claims — a story he’s repeated for years and that fact-checkers have consistently debunked.

This latest slip joins a growing list of strange, self-congratulatory tales that his detractors say reveal how detached from reality he’s become.

During a recent speech marking the Navy’s 250th anniversary in Norfolk, Virginia, Trump brazenly launched into a familiar boast about personally predicting Osama bin Laden’s rise before the September 11 attacks.

“Please remember, I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year — one year before he blew up the World Trade Center and said, ‘You gotta watch Osama bin Laden,’” Trump told the cadets.

He continued, “And the FAKE NEWS would never let me get away with that statement unless

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