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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump touts his ability to predict world events, including terrorism
Donald Trump touts his ability to predict world events, including terrorismby Jenna Johnson at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/24/donald-trump-touts-his-ability-to-predict-world-events-including-terrorism/
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During a speech that lasted more than 75 minutes, Trump hammered on his usual campaign-trail talking points, with a heavy emphasis on bringing more jobs back to the United States and fighting Islamic State terrorists. Trump told the crowd he predicted the threat of bin Laden in one of his books, published more than a year before the 9/11 attacks. Trump says if bin Laden was taken out at that point, the attacks on the World Trade Center would not have happened.
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Donald Trump touts his ability to predict world events, including terrorism (Original Post)
applegrove
Nov 2015
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Great prediction Donald. Osama bin Laden was #1 of the CIA's kill list in the years
applegrove
Nov 2015
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applegrove
(132,698 posts)1. Great prediction Donald. Osama bin Laden was #1 of the CIA's kill list in the years
before 9/11. Leslie Stall did a story on it for 60 minutes at the time.
tblue37
(68,445 posts)2. His endless rants remind me of the loooonngg TV and radio speeches given by dictators. nt
edhopper
(37,433 posts)3. I wonder if anybody else predicted this
You know said something like "Bin Laden determined to strike US"?