MILITARY/PAKISTAN/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is once again claiming he knows best — this time, criticizing the past military and political leadership for the timeline of the Osama bin Laden capture. The issue re-emerged Sunday [11-18-18] in a taped interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace. Pivoting from a question about retired Adm. William McRaven’s criticism over the President’s treatment of the press, Trump lashed out. He took aim at McRaven, the architect of the bin Laden raid, and Pakistan for what he claimed was their cover up of bin Laden’s whereabouts. Trump called McRaven a ‘Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer,’ which McRaven disputed. And bin Laden, the President told Wallace, was ‘living in Pakistan right next to the military academy. Everybody in Pakistan knew he was there. And we give Pakistan $1.3 billion a year and they don’t tell him.’ On Monday [11-19-18], Trump again returned to the issue of bin Laden, claiming the intelligence community should have read his 2000 book, ‘The America We Deserve,’ in which he mentioned bin Laden and, separately, predicted a major terror attack.”
–Betsy Klein, “Trump tries to say told you so on bin Laden capture,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, November 19, 2018 2:06 am