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Donald Trump is being mocked for an outlandish claim that he warned Pete Hegseth about Osama bin Laden “one year before” 9/11.
“I said one year before to Pete Hegseth” Trump insisted during a recent speech to US Navy officials.
But there’s a glaring issue, Hegseth would have been just 20 years old and a college student at the time.
Trump’s book, The America We Deserve, was published in early 2000 and includes only a vague mention of bin Laden.
Critics say the claim is not only false, but historically impossible.
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