Donald Trump: In 2000, "I wrote about Osama bin Laden, 'We've got to take him out.'"

The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Trump's hyped claim that he called for rubbing out bin Laden in 2000 Almost two years before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Donald Trump says he urged the United States to eliminate Osama bin Laden. "Remember that in 'The America We Deserve,' I wrote that book in 2000, I wrote about Osama bin Laden: 'We've got to take him out,'" Trump said during a Dec. 2 rally for his presidential campaign in Manassas. Trump rarely leaves a rally without saying that well before the Sept. 11 attacks, he was among the first to recognize bin Laden's danger. We wondered whether his claim about the warning in his book is accurate. "The America We ... >> More

Via: Politifact.com: Statements from Donald Trump