“History will never forget that it was the SEALs who stormed the compound of Osama bin Laden and put a bullet in his head,” Trump said in a speech at Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday during a special celebration to mark the US Navy’s 250th birthday, reported PTI.
Trump claimed that he had asked authorities to keep track of bin Laden a year before the 9/11 attack. He added that the “fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true,” according to PTI.
“Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year before he blew up the World Trade Centre. And I said, ‘You got to watch Osama bin Laden,'” he said. “But I said one year before, that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn’t like it. And you got to take care of him,” Trump continued, as reported by PTI.
“They didn’t do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Centre,” the US president stated. “So I got to take a little credit, because nobody else is going to give it to me. You know the old story, they don’t give you credit. Just take it yourself.”
Trump also said that it was the US Navy that “dumped” bin Laden’s “wretched corpse off the decks” of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson “to sink into the dark abyss,” according to PTI.
In May 2011, US Navy SEALs carried out an operation that killed bin Laden, who was hiding in a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The raid was authorised by then-US President Barack Obama. In a special address from the East Room of the White House, Obama declared, “I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.”
Trump, who has been critical of the US exit from Afghanistan under former President Joe Biden’s leadership, also said that the US would have won the Afghanistan war easily.
“But we got politically correct. ‘Let’s take it easy.’ We’re not politically correct anymore. Just so you understand, we win. Now we win. We don’t want to be politically correct anymore,” he said.
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