Donald Trump has promised to Make America Safe Again, and in order to prove it, he bragged he would have caught Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks even happened, Talking Points Memo reports.
"I would've been tougher on terrorism. Bin Laden would've been caught a long time ago, before he was ultimately caught, prior to the downing of the World Trade Center," Trump told an audience in Cleveland.
Trump also reiterated that he would have voted against the Iraq invasion, despite him being on the record as having been for it. In response to Trump citing a 2004 Esquire article as proof he was against the war, the magazine's editors added a note Thursday to clarify that "the Iraq war began in March 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying Trump's timeline." Jeva Lange
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