White House fails to clear up Trump's Unabomber story
The president had insisted that Dr John Trump, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had once taught a 'seriously good' student named Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, and recalled having a conversation with his uncle about him.
When told it would have been impossible for Dr Trump to have ever discussed the Unabomber with the now-president, Ms Leavitt told White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg on Thursday (17 July): "I'm a little bit surprised you would ask such a question.
"The president's uncle did in fact teach at MIT. He was a very intelligent professor. The president's very proud of his family."
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