Lie number 1776 - approximately: No one heard of bin Laden until 9/11

[question everything]

Trump on Sunday again claimed he wrote a book prior to the terror attacks on 9/11 warning about the dangers of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

“I said you have to kill him. You have to take him out. And nobody ever listened to me. ... Let’s put it this way: If they had listened to me, a lot of things would have been different,” Trump said as he announced that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had died in a U.S.-led raid in Syria, The Guardian reported.

“I didn’t get any credit. I never do,” he continued, referencing his book “The America We Deserve,” which was published in 2000.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/467631-trump-again-claims-book-foreshadowed-9-11

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Bin Laden was well-known to the intelligence services; they'd been watching him

for years. 9/11 happened because the Bush administration dropped the ball and didn't listen to the warnings from the IC.

[question everything]

2. Of course he was! When first watched the 9/11 disaster many of use speculated that bin laden

was a possibility.

But, with Whiny Donny it is always about himself.

[Still Sensible]

3. He's pure bullshit!

As soon as the planes flew into the towers, bin Laden and al Qaeda was my first thought. On his way out, Bill Clinton specifically warned Bush II, etc..

[JHB]

4. Bush's PNAC gallery of chickenhawk handlers had jeered at Clinton...

...for being "obsessed" with bin Laden, "a guy in a cave".

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. More people had probably heard of Bin Laden before 9/11 than...

...people had heard of Al Baghdadi at the time of his death.

[LeftInTX]

7. I don't know about that

Baghdadi was pretty well known. I had heard of Bin Laden before 9/11, but terrorism wasn't on our radar as much back then.

When ISIS formed they were on the news pretty much 24/7 even though they were overseas and didn't have much of an impact on Americans. There was always the fear that they were going to come here and do bad things. (9/11 repeat) Baghdadi was on the news alot.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Right

And the Republicans accused Bill Clinton of "wagging the dog" when an unsuccessful cruise missile attack was launched on Bin Laden in 1998.