President Trump has called out Bill Clinton for not taking seriously the Osama Bin Laden threat in the 1990s. The Washington Examiner reports:
The tweet came roughly 24 hours after the president told “Fox News Sunday” that Pakistan knew where bin Laden was hiding and refused to tell the U.S. He also refused to give credit to retired admiral and Navy SEAL William McRaven for leading the May 2011 mission that ultimately killed bin Laden, calling him a supporter of “Hillary Clinton” fan and “Obama-backer.”President Trump said Monday that former President Bill Clinton missed his opportunity to kill 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden and called the nation of Pakistan “fools” for never tipping the U.S. off to the terrorist’s whereabouts.“Of course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long before we did. I pointed him out in my book just BEFORE the attack on the World Trade Center. President Clinton famously missed his shot. We paid Pakistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he was living there. Fools!..” Trump tweeted Monday morning.
President Trump’s relentless attacks on Pakistan have annoyed the foreign policy establishment, whose conventional thinking strongly supports Pakistan’s role in the region. However, many Americans have seen Pakistan as a haven for terrorists and a very real reason as to why the Taliban continue to grow stronger in Afghanistan.“Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldn’t it have been nice?” Trump said. “You know, living — think of this — living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I don’t know, I’ve seen nicer. But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there.”
