US President Donald Trump reignited a long-standing claim that he predicted the threat posed by Osama bin Laden a year before the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, while paying tribute to the US Navy SEALs for killing the al-Qaeda leader.

Speaking at an event in Norfolk, Virginia , on Sunday to commemorate the US Navy’s 250th anniversary, Trump praised the elite force for their role in the 2011 Abbottabad raid that killed bin Laden, declaring: “History will never forget that it was the SEALs who stormed the compound at Osama bin Laden and put a bullet in his head.”

Donald Trump went on to recall his alleged early warnings about bin Laden’s growing influence before the 9/11 attacks. “Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year before he blew up the World Trade Centre

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