White House stonewalls when pressed to explain Trump's implausible Unabomber story

Source: The Independent

White House stonewalls when pressed to explain Trump’s implausible Unabomber story

Press Secretary offers non-answer when asked about Trump’s impossible claim that his MIT professor uncle once taught future killer Ted Kaczynski — who never attended MIT

Andrew Feinberg
in Washington, D.C.
Thursday 17 July 2025 23:39 BST

The White House stonewalled Thursday when pressed for an explanation as to why President Donald Trump told a group of business leaders an implausible tale about his late uncle, a noted MIT professor, once teaching Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.

The Independent asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the president’s bizarre anecdote during a routine press briefing, two days after Trump insisted that Kaczynski, who earned a bachelor's degree at Harvard and a master’s and a PhD at the University of Michigan before going on his deadly terror spree, had been a student of his famous uncle.

Leavitt attempted to deflect by claiming surprise that The Independent would be interested in the matter despite having received a query about the president’s claims by email within minutes of him making the remarks in question on Tuesday.

She proceeded to cite the late Dr. Trump’s history at MIT and called the late physicist — a pioneer in cancer research who was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 — a “very intelligent professor.”

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